James Louis Petigru a Biographical Sketch, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)
- ISBN-10
- 1528553322
- ISBN-13
- 9781528553322
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 182
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-09-13
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- William J. Grayson
Description
Excerpt from James Louis Petigru a Biographical Sketch, Vol. 5 In the Clerk's Othee of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. The ms. From Which the following Biographic al Sketch is printed was found among the papers of the late William J. Grayson, of Charleston, S. C. The scraps of old paper upon Which it is written indicate that it was undertaken during the priva tions and anxieties of the siege of Charleston, When the materials for writing had become scarce. The guarded tone of its political revelations no less im pressively suggests that the censorship and partisan bitterness of civil war repressed the free utterances of the writer, Who doubtless intended the memoir for the latitude and the circumstane'es of the place and time; and What renders this tribute of affec tion the more interesting is the fact that, Within a few hours after its completion, the author died, from the effects of a tedious illness, aggravated by patri otic regrets and personal bereavements. What wasthus written can scarcely be abridged or modified without disrespect to the dead. The intelligent reader will make due allowance for the restrained expressions and the unrevised style, and accept the whole as a spontaneous labor of love, achieved in the face of many diseouragements. 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.
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