Excerpt from The Movement for Peace Without a Victory During the Civil War It is a common practice for writers on the Civil War to reduce the opposing forces to two, the South and the North, or Confederates and Unionists, and likewise to simplify the issues by condensing them to one word, slavery. There is enough truth in this view to satisfy many persons. It has the merit that it may be easily remembered. That it breeds superficiality and inaccuracy Of thought does not seem to trouble the authors. It fails wholly to explain the motives and ideals Of the hundreds of thousands in the South who supported the Confederate cause and Of an as tonishingly large number in the North who Opposed the Unionists in the prosecution of the \var without, in either case, having any direct interest in preserving slavery. It also falls short as an adequate presenta tion of the complex forces arrayed against the Govern ment throughout the Civil -var. 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.