Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The compiler hopes that some enterprising pub lisher, at no distant day, will deem it for his interest and that of the reading public to take the Gettysburg Edition of the Complete War/es (by far the fullest and most complete), divest it of all pictorial embellishment and extraneous matter.