Excerpt from In the Depths of the First Degree: A Romance of the Battle of Bull Run The savage retreat he had instituted for himself would soon be wholly obliterated and its obscurity illuminated by the light of progressive industry. This would necessitate a transfer of his record further west - into mountain caves or the society of rocks, perhaps. 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.