Book Traces: Civil War Era Readers and Their Books in Virginia Libraries

This book is all very well as an interesting Romance but if a man may have any confidence in his [own?] senses, and if a person who has been through it all [so?] far as McClellan's campaign in conscience and has no prejudices may be permitted to be [consider-?] [ed?] as well able to judge as one who was never at the scenes of action he describes, then in point of fact is this book a fiction---

your truly [illegible]

To Mr. Heathy