Randall Lee Gibson A.L.S.. on Senate letterhead, 3pp. 8vo., Washington, Dec. 21, 1884 thanking a man for sending a book. In part: ...his measure of southern men and the southern people... to speakfrankly, he belittles them. Perhaps the failure of their struggle an the immense consequences following it justify such treatment... Only the lesson - not the bitterness - of the struggle remains . Much excellent philosophical content on his views of the Civil War. E3000-500