UNIV. OF

MEMOIRS

OF THE

CONFEDERATE WAR, FOR éve

INDEPENDENCE

BY

HEROS VON BORCKE

LATELY CHIEF OF STAFF TO GENERÁL J. E. B. STUART

IN TWO VOLUMES, WITH A MAP

VOL. I.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

MDCCCLXVI

The Right of Translation is reserved

Affectionately Dedicated

TO MY OLD COMRADES OF

THE LATE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,

BY ONE OF ITS SOLDIERS,

HEROS VON BORCKE.

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PREFACE.

THE kind interest with which the public received the Memoirs as they appeared in 'Blackwood's Magazine' induced me to think of republishing them. When they were on the point of republication, the news reached me. that my King had called his people to arms against Austria and her allies. I offered at once my sword to my native country, and had the proud satisfaction of fighting, in the army of Prince Frederick Charles, in the great battle of Königsgräetz, and of taking part in the victorious advance through Bohemia, Moravia, and the Duchy of Austria. A new great war has turned the interest of the public to new matters, -many months have passed away since the termination of the great American struggle,