Excerpt from The Last of the War Governors: A Biographical Appreciation of Colonel William Sprague With jokes and other signs of good humor. Though some of the information related to him does not cor respond in every respect with written history, it is probably more correct as intimately reflecting the timesas they actually occurred to the chief actors - the life behind the scenes. In Civil \var times as in the pres ent Great 'w'ar censorship existed and to an extent the public was allowed to hear only what was thought ...
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Excerpt from The Last of the War Governors: A Biographical Appreciation of Colonel William Sprague With jokes and other signs of good humor. Though some of the information related to him does not cor respond in every respect with written history, it is probably more correct as intimately reflecting the timesas they actually occurred to the chief actors - the life behind the scenes. In Civil \var times as in the pres ent Great 'w'ar censorship existed and to an extent the public was allowed to hear only what was thought best for them. Historians too often accepted these guarded or garbled statements as facts, and built their foundations upon them. This was particularly true of the Altoona Conference; its real purposes were necessarily kept from press and public, but unfortu nately too long, as historians had little to grasp at when sitting down to indite their final estimates. Fortunate indeed was it that Governor Sprague survived into the present day, so that his story might be recorded, and place the War Governors} Conference in the light it deserved to be - the pivotal and deciding point of the Civil vvar - and to properly describe the parts played by each of the great actors in it. At one time Colonel Sprague was at work upon a lengthy article dealing with the Altoona meeting, but the manuscript was lost with other papers when his beautiful home, f'canon chet.' at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island. Was de stroyed by fire several years ago. The aged states man almost lost his life in trying to rescue his manu scripts and papers, but the cruel flames made a clean sweep of the mental gleanings of a lifetime. If this manuscript had been preserve l, the Sprague version of the far Governors' Conference would have been given to the world ere this and the account written of it by Governor Austin Blair, of Michigan, might have had a valuable supplement. But once destroyed itcould not be rewritten; the old Rhode Island patrio: was too frail to take up the pen again; his story of the historic meeting bid fair never to see the light of day It was therefore with pleasure that Colonel Sprague recounted some of the incidents of the Conference and the circumstances leading up to and following it, when the writer saw him two years ago. Fragmentarx as compared to the written account, lacking perhaps in some salient details due to the forgetfulness incidental to over half a century vet it stands as a frank state ment of-a great man's part in a momentous historical event. To the writer it stands as well as a happy memory of one of the most charming acquaintance ships formed in life's pilgrimage. Of hours spent with a noble and lovable soul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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