Preface signed "S.L.J." [i.e. Sarah L. Jones, pseud.]
Library of Congress copy has ms. note at foot of preface, "For any errors & misconceptions discoverable in this work, the authoress would plead the hasty preparation of it, demanded of her immediately on her return to England. It was only the work of ten weeks. Signed; Catherine C. Hopley. Washington D.C., June 3rd 1884."
"Being a social history of those who took part in the battles, from a personal acquaintance with them in their own homes. From the Spring of 1860 to August 1862."