Undoubtedly those of our readers who remember the work upon which this volume is an expansion will wonder why various changes in people and their involvement now appear, particularly where the final lines of the narrative are concerned. We can only assume the source from which we produced the original manuscript had heard that President Abraham Lincoln was involved, but lacked the true facts, and so employed imagination by implying he and Captain Dustine Edward Marsden ‘Dusty’ Fog carried out the conversation regarding the futility of war.