Excerpt from The South in the Building of the Nation, Vol. 13: A History of the Southern States Designed to Record the South's Part in the Making of the American Nation It has been a wonderfully inspiring study, and one which in the doing would be calculated to make every Southerner and every American citizen glow with pride. If only the men of early deeds, the empire-builders of the past, had been privileged to look through the broad, rich pages of these books, foreseeing the achievement of each state and of the South as a Whole, - how great would have been their joy of proprietor ship! But what 'was denied them is now within the reach of every schoolboy and girl. Truly the half had 'never been told no, nor even the tenth part set down - until this series of monu'mental volumes was published! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.