“The Marine Journal” says of it: “The author, takes as usualfor his fiction, a foundation of reality, and therefore the story readslike a transcript of real life. There are many dramatic scenes,such as the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and thereader follows the adventures of the two heroes with a keen interestthat must make the story popular especially at the present time.”

“The Detroit Free Press” says of it, “The book is the very epitomeof what the young soldiers, who helped to save the Union, felt,endured and enjoyed. It is wholesome, stimulating to patriotismand manhood, noble in tone, unstained by any hint of sectionalism,full of good feeling; the work of a hero who himself did what hesaw and relates.”

“The New York Nation” says of it: “It is an unusually interestingstory. Its pictures of scenes and incidents of army life, from themarch of the 6th Massachusetts regiment through Baltimore to thesurrender at Appomattox, are among the best that we can rememberto have read.”

“The Boston Beacon” among other complimentary remarks aboutthis book says: “Of all the many stories of the Civil War thathave been published—and their name is legion—it is not possibleto mention one which for sturdy realism, intensity of interest, andrange of narrative, can compare with Jed.”

“The Christian Advocate” (Cincinnati) says of it: “One of thebest lives of U. S. Grant that we have seen—clear, circumstantial,but without undue and fulsome praise. The chapters telling ofthe clouds of misfortune and suffering over the close of his life arepathetic in the extreme.”

The “Living Church” (Milwaukee) says of it: “The story of thedashing officer in his war career and also afterwards—in hiscampaigns among the Indians, form a thrilling story of Americanleadership. The book contains a thorough review in thrilling languageof the various campaigns in which Sheridan made his mark.”