The Littlest Rebel

Excerpt from The Littlest RebelThe play, from which this book is written, was in no sense of the word intended as a war drama; for war is merely its background, and always in the center stands a lonely little child.War is its theme but not its purpose. War breeds hatred, horror, pestilence and famine, yet from its tears and ashes eventually must rise the clean white spirit of humanity.The enmity between North and South is dead; it sleeps with the fathers and the sons, the brothers and the lovers, Who died in a cause which each believed was just.Therefore this story deals, not with the right or wrong of a lost confederacy, but with the mercy and generosity, the chivalry and human ity which lived in the hearts of the Blue and Gray, a noble contrast to the grim brutality of war.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.