# The hoe cake of Appomattox

Author: Spear, Ellis, 1834-1917

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70880

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+hoe+cake+of+Appomattox+Spear&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In considering the unity of that great brotherhood of men who composed the armies of the United States in the war for sustaining the government, and perpetuating the form of it made by the founders, we have been giving attention to every phase of the many common conditions which formed our common experience and bound us so firmly together, excepting those of a social and physical character. The great and firm basis of this lifelong comradeship is, of course, the common devotion and the common sacrifice in the service of the country on the existence of which, latent in peace but manifest in war, the very existence of every government is founded. This common devotion to the service of human...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-hoe-cake-of-appomattox-70880/chapters/1/index.md)