Excerpt from A School History of the United States This history has been prepared with the desire to give the children and youth of the United States, and especially those of the Southern States, a fair and just and interesting account of the whole country from Maine to Texas and California. Most of the School Histories now in use tell in detail the story of the northern half of the country, while only a few chapters are devoted to its southern half. In this book, an honest effort is made to Speak truthfully of both without sectional passion or prejudice. Adding the history of the Southern States and of the Civil War, to what is told in other School Histories, has necessarily made this volume larger. After all possible condensation, it has not been found practicable to compress truth into a smaller com pass without reducing it to a dry compendium of facts and dates utterly devoid of interest, and impossible to remember. 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.