A long and bitterly-fought Civil War is about the most difficult experience a nation can be called upon to endure.

Preface: History is so alive and growing that it is hard to see how anyone can think of it as dead and dry.

Chapter 1: The generation that has grown up in the United States since the first World War will not need to be told that the end of hostilities may precipitate problems quite as perplexing as those which mark the progress of a war itself.