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The publication of General Hood's book, entitled "Advance and Retreat," the wide circulation which circumstances have concurred to give it, and the fact that a new generation has grown up, unfamiliar with the matters there referred to, make it essential that certain charges and imputations therein made against General William J. Hardee should be met and refuted. Some of these matters, consisting of suggestion and opinion, and of alleged verbal communications between persons, all of whom are now dead, are difficult to deal with. This difficulty is enhanced by the lapse