L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, Portraits.

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List of illustrations.

Moore and Blue, the Kansas scouts.

A nameless spy.

The prayer of the wicked.

A female scout and spy.

Keller or Killdare , one of the scouts of the Army of the Cumberland .

A daring scout and spy.

Scouting in East Tennessee .

Part 2 : daring enterprises of officers and men.

The great railroad chase.

Zagonyi 's charge.

The passage of the Port Hudson batteries.

Running the batteries at Vicksburg .

The cavalry fight at Brandy station .

The capture of Mission Ridge .

Sheridan at Middletown .

Narrative of Captain John F. Porter , Jr. , Fourteenth New York cavalry -particulars of his escape.

How the prisoners escaped prom the Richmond jail-incredible underground work-friendship of Virginia negroes.

The romance of war.

The death of John , the West Virginia blacksmith.

Robinson , the wounded soldier.

Rachel Somers , the noble mother.

The soldiers' guardian angel.

A heroine and martyr.

The farmer's contribution to the Chicago sanitary fair.

The Vicksburg Scow: a ballad.

Miss Melvina Stevens , the East Tennessee heroine.

Rallying a flying brigade.

Night scene in a hospital.

How the soldiers took their ease in their inn.

Incidents of Grierson 's raid.

The pen mightier than the sword.

Adventure of a spy.

General Pope and the assistant secretary of war .

The religious sentiment in the army.

Parson Brownlow 's daughter and the rebel soldiers.

General Banks and the military speculator.

A woman's pluck and patriotism.

Giving for the wounded soldiers.

Morgan 's men and the secessionists.

The horse marine's story.

The contrabands in the war.

A good use of Roman candles.

Trying to persuade Mr. Greeley to enlist.

Hetty McEwen , an incident of the occupation of Nashville .

General Sumner at Fair Oaks .

Old Bradley, the Tennessee blacksmith.

Driving home the cows.

The loyalty of a Charleston woman.

The ballad of Ishmael day.

Old Burns, the hero of Gettysburg .

Conduct of the colored troops.

General Ransom , in the assault on Vicksburg .

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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. [8] 51. 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.

Thayer and Eldridge, 1866.

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