Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cleveland Official Souvenir of the Thirty-Fifth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, September, 1901 Country, of dangers Shared, of a mutual bravery, and of a united, unfaltering purpose. Such association, continued for years under the open Sky and close to the great heart of nature, which robs man of his veneer and sets him in honest communion with his fel lows, bred a clannishness of Spirit that could not die when the war that developed it was over. It had in it, too, not only the leaven of life but of growth. It was planted in a single little tent. Today, it blossoms in a monster encampment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.