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 306 officers, and the autograph of General Lee I prize very greatly indeed.

My book on Stonewall Jackson will be published in England and America simultaneously about the end of July. I cannot surmise how it will be received in your half or three-quarters of "Anglo-Saxondom." I have tried to do full justice to both sides, and may possibly please neither, but my consolation will be that I have done my best to find out the truth, and my opinions are the result of many years of study of American history and of the Civil War.

I may add that the writing of the book has been the more pleasant by the friends and acquaintances I have made during my researches and by the kind letters and offers of assistance which I have received from soldiers like yourself.

Thanking you once more and hoping that when "Stonewall Jackson" appears that you will give the benefit of your criticism for a possible second edition. I am.

Yours most sincerely,

G. F. R.

Colonel Henderson lived to see his "Stonewall Jackson" acknowledged to be one of the finest military biographies in existence, but he died before writing the life and campaigns of General Robert E. Lee, which he had undertaken to do, as he died in Assouan, Egypt, in March, 1903.