Abstract

The Comte De Paris's History of The Rebellion

When the Comte de Paris was still in exile, he inhabited a house at Twickenham called York House, which is one of the simplest of the cluster of mansions on the banks of the Thames Rivers, England. The Comte de Paris, who had much leisure and who is naturally of a serious and laborious disposition, had undertaken a great work. He had been a soldier in the army of the North, and had played a very creditable part in the unfortunate campaign of the Virginian Peninsula. He received from all sides very valuable documents, sometimes original notes and letters; he resolved to write a comprehensive history of the Civil War in the U.S. The Comte de Paris attempted to give a complete picture of the U.S. during the war of secession, but from the first two volumes of his work which have just appeared, and which have been very favorably received, it is evident that the history of the military events will have the principal place in this elaborate picture.