WAR OF THE REBELLION;

OR,

SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS.

CONSISTING OF

OBSERVATIONS UPON THE CAUSES, COURSE, AND
CONSEQUENCES

OF

The Late Civil War in the United States.

By H. S. FOOTE.

Et pater Anchises: Nimirum hæc illa Charybdis;
Hos Helenus scopulos, hæc saxa horrenda canebat.
Eripite, o socii; pariterque insurgite remis.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand

eight hundred and sixty-six, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District