Page images
PDF
EPUB
[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

THOMAS BUCHANAN READ, GEORGE H. BOKER,
FRANCIS DE HAES JANVIER,

AND OTHER AMERICAN AUTHORS,

COMMEMORATIVE OF THE

GALLANT DEEDS OF OUR NOBLE DEFENDERS ON LAND AND SEA.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

AL 4 25.865

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
FROM

THE BEQUEST OF
EVERT JANSEN WENDELL

1918

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

TO MESSRS. JAMES L. CLAGHORN,

FERDINAND J. DREER,

AND JOSEPH HARRISON, JR.

GENTLEMEN:-Accept my thanks for the generous sympathy in my efforts to serve this cause which has induced you to undertake the publication of this little book, the proceeds of which are to be applied to the wants of our sick and wounded soldiers.

Your devotion to our country's cause, your untiring efforts in and your generous contributions to the glorious work of sustaining and comforting such of our noble defenders as stand in need of the Good Samaritan's office,-these good deeds expressed in your individual services are but the types of the noble virtues and generous sympathies of the loyal citizens of Philadelphia, which find an echo in the heart of every Unionloving member of the Great Republic.

I regret that my continued illness compels me to abandon my original intentions in the publication of the book. And yet I feel assured that it will meet at your hands, and from the favor of the public, attention and appreciation which its merits could not venture to call forth,—that is, at least, as far as my humble contributions to its pages are concerned.

May God bless the efforts of our loyal countrymen to alleviate the suffering and sorrows of those who are fighting for

4

our Government! and may His merciful providence restore peace to the land, and the land to the supremacy of law and order, under that sacred emblem of Liberty and Union, the dear "Old Flag"!

Truly, your friend and obedient servant,
JAMES E. MURDOCH.

PHILADELPHIA, May 19, 1864.

« EelmineJätka »