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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, List of illustrations. (search)
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, Battle scenes. (search)
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, Keller or Killdare , one of the scouts of the Army of the Cumberland . (search)
Keller or Killdare, one of the scouts of the Army of the Cumberland.
Keller, or as he was usually called in the Army of the Cumberland, Killdare, was of German, and perhaps Jewish extraction, and during the first eighteen months of the war had been concerned with Besthoff, and three Jews by the names of Friedenburg, in smuggling goods into rebeldom, but being arrested in connection with them, it appeared that he had not been as guilty as the others, and that what he had done had been ratheKeller, or as he was usually called in the Army of the Cumberland, Killdare, was of German, and perhaps Jewish extraction, and during the first eighteen months of the war had been concerned with Besthoff, and three Jews by the names of Friedenburg, in smuggling goods into rebeldom, but being arrested in connection with them, it appeared that he had not been as guilty as the others, and that what he had done had been rather to support his family than from a desire to aid the rebels.
He was therefore released, and being offered an appointment as scout in the Union service, he accepted it and was of great service to the Union cause.
In March 1863, he left Nashville on horseback, with a small stock of goods, not exceeding one hundred dollars in value, with the intention of making his way into and through a certain portion of the Confederacy.
Swimming his horse across Harpeth creek, and crossing with his goods i