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Excerpt from In Circling Camps: A Romance of the Civil War They Were dancing in the ballroom, and the music the light ow of an Austrian waltz - rippled through the halls, the careless notes Of the melody, played on such a night, returning to me with a sinister echo. Yet the touch Of foreboding was faint, and I felt that it was alike folly and bad taste to be sad when others laughed. And I hear that he has turned back, said Varian, in cool, precise tones. A President without a nation or a nation without a President, which is it - either or both? Now, being elected President, which no one de nies, why does not Lincoln come to claim his own? 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."