"THE BRAVEST MAN I EVER KNEW AND THE MOST PERFECT SOLDIER."

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT.

„Ein Mann voll stiller Größe,"

Schmalz's Denkwürdigkeiten des Grafen Wilhelms zu Schaumburg-Lippe.

BY JOHN WATTS DE PEYSTER,

NEW YORK:

RICE AND GAGE, PUBLISHERS.

BLISS & CO., NEWARK, N. J.

1869.

Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and

sixty-nine, by

RICE & GAGE,

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

WEED, PARSONS AND COMPANY,

PRINTERS AND STEREOTYPERS.

ALBANY, NEW YORK.

PRESENTED IN ANCIENT OR MODERN HISTORY,

WHOSE MORAL COURAGE AND INTELLIGENT DISCIPLINE,
WHOSE DEVOTION, PATIENCE AND PERSEVERANCE
CONQUERED AND CRUSHED THE GREATEST REBELLION
EVER RECORDED IN HISTORY,

OR EVER UNDERTAKEN

AGAINST THE

RIGHTS OF A PEOPLE AND HUMANITY;

ΤΟ

OUR VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS AND SOLDIER-CITIZENS,

WHO OVERCAME, NOT ONLY

THE ENEMY IN ARMS IN THE FIELD,

BUT

FOES AS DANGEROUS, BECAUSE INSIDIOUS AT HOME.

THIS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF A

VOLUNTEER GENERAL,

A

GLORIOUS TYPE OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIER,

IS DEDICATED

WITH THE

RESPECT, ADMIRATION AND GRATITUDE

DUE

FOR HIS COUNTRY SAVED AND ITS CONSTITUTION PRESERVED,

BY THE

AUTHOR.