Excerpt from The Golden Book of Favorite Songs, Revised and Enlarged: A Treasury of the Best Songs of Our People (202 Songs, 192 of Which Are With Music) Assembly: Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. 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.