List of illustrations.
Portraits.
1.
Lieut.-Gen. Grant, Frontispiece. 2.
General Meade. 3.
General Hancock. 4.
General Warren. 5.
General Wright. 6. General “
Baldy”
Smith.
7.
General Sickles. 8.
General Heintzelman. 9.
General Sherman. 10.
General Rosecrans. 11.
General Logan. 12.
General Howard. 13.
General Slocum. 14.
General Robert McCOOK. 15.
General McCLERNAND. 16.
Lieutenant-General Scott 17.
General Halleck. 1S.
General Dix. 19.
General Casey. 20.
General Franklin. 21.
General Buell. 22.
General shields.
23.
General McCLELLAN. 24.
General Foster. 25.
General Terry. 26.
General Sykes. 27.
General Gillmore. 28.
General Wallace. 29.
General Garfield. 30.
General Schofield. 31.
General Sheridan. 32.
General Kilpatrick 33.
General Custer 34.
General Buford 35.
General Merritt 36.
General Averill 37.
General Torbert. 38.
General Sedgwick. 39.
General McPHERSON. 40.
General Reynolds. 41.
General Wadsworth. 42.
General Sumner. 43.
General Kearney. 44.
General Lyon 45.
General Birney. 46.
General Mitchell. 47.
General Reno. 48.
General Grierson 49.
General Rousseau. 51.
General Wilson.
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General Kautz. 52.
General Stoneman. 63.
General Pleasonton. u4.
General Gregg. 56.
Vice Admiral Farragut. 56.
Rear Admiral Porter. 57.
rear Admiral Foote. 58.
rear Admiral Du Pont. 59
rear Admiral Dahlgren. 60
rear Admiral Goldsborough. 61
Commodore Winslow. 62.
Lieutenant-commander Cushing. 63.
General R. E. Lee. 64. General “
Stonewall”
Jackson.
66.
General Ewell. 66.
General Beauregard. 67.
General Longstreet. 68.
General Breckinridge. 69.
General A. P. Hill. 70.
General Fitzhugh Lee. 71.
Colonel Mosby. 72.
General Joseph E. Johnston. 73.
General Hood. 74.
General Bragg. 75.
Lieut.-Gen. Kirby Smith. 76.
Major-General Price. 77.
Major-General A. S. Johnson. 78.
Major-General Hardee. 79.
Major-General Forrest. 80.
Major-General John Morgan.
Battle scenes.
81.
Battle of Gettysburg. 82. Capture of
Lookout mountain. 83.
battle of
Chapin's farm.
84. Surrender of
General Lee. 85.
Interview between
Generals Sherman and
Johnston. 86.
The scout.
87. Prisoners' camp at
Andersoville,
Georgia.
88. the great railroad raid.
89. Obstructing the train.
90.
Mrs. Bickerdyke and the Unfaithful surgeon.
91.
Mrs. Bickerdyke Uses her dresses for the
Union soldiers.
92. Union soldiers pursued by bloodhounds.
93. the first Tennessee cavalry Escorting rebel prisoners.
94. the leap for life.
95. the
Price of loyalty in
East Tennessee. 96.
Parson
Brownlow's daughter and the rebel soldiers.
97. the scout and the Bloodhound.
98. Old Bradley and his daughter.
99. Bringing home the cows.
100. old
Burns, the hero of
Gettysburg.
101. the rescue.
102. the country must be saved if it takes every Chicken in the
Confederacy.
103. “I'll give you so much for them 'ere sick fellows in the hospital.”
narratives of spies, scouts, and detectives.
Moore and Blue, the Kansas Scouts ............................. 11 A Nameless Spy ..................................... ......... 26
Corporal Pike, Scout and
Ranger . ....... .............. .......... 34 A Female Scout and Spy ....................................... 66 Adventures of
Harry Newcomer, a Scout and Spy in the Army of the Cumberland............................................ 73
Pauline Cushman, the Celebrated Union Spy and Scout of the
Army of the Cumberland ................................... 100
Keller or
Killdare, one of the Scouts of the Army of the Cumberland. 131 A Daring Scout and Spy ........................................ 142 Scouting in
East Tennessee .................................... 157 Bible
Smith, the
East Tennessee Scout and Spy .................. 165
part II.
daring enterprises of officers and men, The Great Railroad
Chase...................................... 191 The Wrong Side of the Curve.
An
Ex-engineer's Story........... 204
Zagonyi's Charge .............................................. 210 The Passage of the
Port Hudson Batteries ....................... 224 Running the
Batteries at
Vicksburg ............................. 235 The Cavalry Fight at
Brandy Station............................ 241 The Capture of
Mission Ridge.................................. 249 Sheridan at
Middletown ....... ......................... 267 Narrative of
Captain John F. Porter, Jr., Fourteenth New York
Cavalry-Particulars of his Escape .......................... 280 How the Prisoners escaped from the
Richmond Jail-Incredible
Underground — Work-Friendship of Virginia Negroes......... 285
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part III.
Incidents of Army life in camp, field, and hospital.
Mother
Bickerdyke, “The soldiers' friend” . ...................... 293 The Death of John, the
West Virginia Blacksmith ................ 304
Robinson, the
Wounded Soldier ................................ 316
Rachel Somers, the
Noble Mother ............................... 331 The Soldiers' Guardian Angel .............................. 333 A Heroine and Martyr......................................... 346 The Farmer's Contribution to the
Chicago Sanitary Fair........... 356 The Vicksburg Scow.
A Ballad ............ ..................... 363
Miss Melvina Stevens, the
East Tennessee Heroine ................ 365 Somebody's Darling ............................................ 367 Rallying a Flying Brigade .............3.................. 368 Night Scene in a Hospital ...................................... 370 How the Soldiers “Took their ease in their Inn” ................. 373 Incidents of
Grierson's Raid .................................. 376 Foraging ........ . ................................. 377 Adventure of a Spy ............................................ 389 The Religious Sentiment in the Army ............................ 394 Parson
Brownlow's Daughter and the
Rebel Soldiers................ 397
General Banks and the
Military Speculators ...................... 398 A Woman's Pluck and Patriotism ......... .. .................... 400 (iving for the
Wounded Soldiers....... ........................ 401
Morgan's Men and the Secessionists ............................. 414 My Capture and Escape from
Mosby .............................416 The Horse Marine's Story ...................................... 435 The Contrabands in the
War ........................ ............ 444 A Good Use of Roman Candles .......................... 454
part IV.
deeds of heroic courage and self-sacrifice.
The Fight with the “
Albemarle” . .. ...... ......... ........ 459 The Destruction of the “
Albemarle” . ...... ...................... 469
Hetty McEwen.
An Incident of the Occupation of
Nashville...... 473
General Sumner at Fair-Oaks ........................... ........ 477 “Old Bradley,” the
Tennessee Blacksmith ....................... 480 Driving Home the Cows.. ..................................... 492 The Loyalty of a Charleston Woman ........................... 494
Colonel Innis, or “Vwe Don't surrender much” ................ 497 The Ballad of Ishmael Day ................................. 499 Old Burns, the
Hero of
Gettysburg.......... ................... 501 Conduct of the Colored Troops .................................. 505
General Ransom, in the Assault on
Vicksburg.................... 511