Excerpt from Americans in Exile: From the Pictures and Papers of Paul Duane, Ex-Officer of the United States Army I thought of that graceful and affectionate young fire-eater, Clay Monroe, who in a short stay North, had warmed my awkward coldness as mortal man had never done before. I sick ened at the prospect that I was perhaps about to reward him with a bullet in his friendly face. 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. 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.