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For the compliments contained in the above we make our cordial acknowledgments. That a historical magazine, which is just completing its thirty-second volume, and which has won so wide a reputation for ability, should deem our new enterprise of such value "that no library, public or private, that pretends to historical fulnessfullness [sic], can afford to be without" our Papers, is, of course, very gratifying to us. But in reference to the criticisms, we have a word of reply.

We are glad that our critic is constrained to admit that Major Walthall "makes sad work of Wilson's account" of the capture of