- Editor’s Note
[The sketches of the campaign in Virginia, which Winthrop had commenced in the “Atlantic Monthly,” would have been continued, had he lived. Immediately upon his arrival at Fort Monroe he had commenced a third article. It is inserted here just as he left it, with one brief addition only to make his known meaning more clear. The part called “Voices of the Contraband” was written previously, and is not paged in the manuscript. It was to have been introduced into the article; but it is placed first here, that the sequence of the paper, as far as the author had written it, may remain undisturbed.]