Excerpt from Revolutionary Services and Civil Life of General William Hull: Prepared From His Manuscripts In arranging and collating this manuscript, my desire is not to take more credit to myself, than common industry can claim; neither would I render my father responsible for my failures, when I have been obliged to speak in other language than his own. General Hull left behind him Memoirs of his Revolutionary Services, in MS., which he had written for the gratification of his children and grandchildren. These memoirs are the basis of the present work. His spirit pervades the whole, and my endeavour has been, that it should not be obscured. The facts are in substance precisely as he has related them. But as his MS. was not prepared for the press, it was necessary, to a certain extent, that the arrangement of the work, and sometimes the style, should be changed.

When General Hull is spoken of, it will be noticed throughout the book, that the first and third persons are indiscriminately used. In the chapter concerning Captain Hale, I have more fully unfolded sentiments expressed by my father in his last interview with that noble young man. 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.

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