The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the War of the Rebellion, civil, military, naval and domestic; embracing the ... events of the great conflict in the United States ... from ... 1830 to the Assassination of President Lincoln, and the end of the War ... Illustrated, etc

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LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT AND HIS BRAVE SOLDIERS. THE PICTORIAL BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, Œivit, pmtary, $m»* a»* §mt0r, EMBRACING THE MOST BRILLIANT AND REMARKABLE ANECDOTICAL EVENTS OF THE GREAT CONFLICT IN THE UNITED STATES: HEROIC, PATRIOTIC, POLITICAL, ROMANTIC, HUMOROUS AND TRAGICAL, FROM THE TIME OF THE MEMORABLE TOAST OF AKBREW ÆAeKSQN^'TKI PEBiR&fe MtQM; tT MUST BC PRESERVES J" Uttered in 1830, in presence of the original Secession Conspirators, to the Assassination of President Lincoln, and the end of the War. WITH FAMOUS WOKDS AOT DEEDS OF ¥OMA^, SANITARY AND HOSPITAL SCENES, PRISON EXPERIENCES, &c. By FRAZAR KIRKLAND, Author of the " Cyclopedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes," etc. SeantMa Illustrate toit| ofer M Citgrabm^ PUBLISHED BT SUBSCRIPTION ONLY.

HARTFORD PUBLISHING CO., HARTFORD, CONN. NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA., AND CINCINNATI, O. j. A. STODDARD k CO., CHICAGO, ILL. ZEIGLER. MCCURDY & CO., ST. LOUIS, MO. 1866. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by HTJELBTJT, WILLIAMS & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the District of Connecticut. MANUFACTURED BY CASE, LOCKWOOD & CO., Printers and Bookbinders, HARTFORD, CONN. Electrotypes! by LOCKWOOD & MANDEVILLE, HARTFORD, CONN. PREFACE: AND PLAjST of the voee. It is safe to assume that no family — no intelligent man, or woman, indeed, — in the sisterhood of States composing our common country, will be willing to forego the possession of some portraiture of the more lively or personal sayings and doings which crowded themselves with such rapidity into each succeeding day of the Great Four Years' War: and, to supply that want, in the most fit and attractive form, this volume has been prepared, and is now offered, — in confident assurance of its value and popular reception, — to the American People.

Not only would it be a difficult task to find that man or woman whose mind has not been thus enlisted to the most intense degree of interest in the great procession of events during the period named, but the attempt would be almost equally futile to discover the family circle or individual upon whom those events have not fallen, either directly or indirectly, with a shock which memory will never efface nor time obliviate. And whilst, of these latter, it may be said the number is well nigh past enumeration, who have spilled their blood, sundered the nearest and dearest ties, endured weari some and relentless persecution, and been brought to irretrievable penury and desola tion ; on the other hand, multitudes there are, who now find reason to rejoice, as surviving participants in the grand and triumphant, though bloody and appalling train of events, which, under an overruling Providence, have doomed forever this and all future similar attempts to destroy a Government founded in the blood and prayers of earth's wisest and best, and upon which the hopes of the world are centred.

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. The character of the present work, — The Book of Anecdotes and Incidents Of the "War of the Eebellion, — is distinctive alike from that of the sober History, the connected Narrative, and the impassioned Story. Whilst embracing all that is striking and marvellous, touching, witty and pathetic, in the scenes from which the latter have been produced, its object is not to weave together any individual theory, philosophy, or methodical detail of affairs, but to present, in attractive form and classification, a volume of the most thrilling, racy and wonderful incidents in the Nation's four years' experience of War, culminating in the assassination of Lincoln, the Beloved Chief Magistrate, and in the ignominious doom of the Arch-Conspirators ! It may be remarked, in a word, that, equally to the Army, the Navy, and to the Civilian, — onetmd the same in their glorious consecration to the great cause of National Existence, — are the pages of this work devoted.

Nor is this collection confined to any particular State, Section, Corps, or Department, but embraces them all. The States loyal, and those in rebellion, are here portrayed, in the scenes, incidents and episodes, which transpired in them respectively. The Army of the Potomac, of the Cumberland, of Virginia, of the Southwest, of the James, and every other, of whatever name, is alike and copiously represented. Generals Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Thomas, Butler, Fremont, — Admirals Farragut, Foote, Porter, Eodgers, Dahlgren, Dupont, and the rest of the great host of Chief Commanders on the Land and on the Sea, — their grand armies, corps, divisions, brigades, fleets, squadrons, etc., and the brave men under their lead, — are here duly commemorated. The stirring deeds of the Armies and Fleets en masse, and of their officers and men individually, — those momentous days and hours, those transcendent acts and movements, the memory of which will live in letters of blood before the eyes and burn like fire in the hearts of those who participated in them ; fhese, sifted like gold, are here spread out in all their varied attractiveness.

Thus it is, that the rank and fie, as well as the superior officers, are made illustrious in these pages, by the valor, skill or achievement, which distinguished them, — and such instances may be said, without any strain of truth, to have characterized every regiment and crew, without exception, in the Grand Army and Navy of the Union ! A glance at the General Contents of this work will furthermore show that they comprise Anecdotes of Scenes and Events relating to several hundred battles, skirmishes and collisions, on land and sea, including every engagement of note during the prolonged Conflict ; that the vessels from whose mast-head the gallant ensi<m waved memorably in the nation's service, have here their annals of fame and honor ; and that not a single general officer, of historic fame, in either arm of the country's defence, has been lost sight of, in giving completeness to the volume as a repository of whatever is piquant, racy, marvellous, pathetic, or grand, in the different departments and fields of military operation.

The most famous sayings and doings in political circles, bearing upon Secession in its public and private aspects ; camp, picket, spy, scout and battle-field adventures ; the brilliant tactics, ruses, strategy, etc., which have made this war so remarkable even in the eyes of European military governments ; thrilling feats of bravery amonothe tarpaulins and blue-jackets ; " hard-tack " and mule beef legends ; recruitin°- Conscripting and substituting oddities ; female soldiers; the harrowing sights and experiences of the hospital and prison; and all the inner-life happenings, humors and drolleries of an army ; — these cover the broad pages of this richly filled volume, and it is believed, render it, above all other works which the war has called forth, the one in especial which, for the spare hours of home reading, every soldier, seaman citizen and family, will desire to possess.

But, in addition to the above brief summary of contents, it may be claimed for this work that it is, almost exclusively, the one specially planned for a choice and discrimi nating exhibition of Woman's Career in the Scenes and Events of the War ! Per haps no other fact could give such peculiar value to these pages, or secure for them such ready acceptance on the part of the reading public.

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. 9 The separate volume, originally contemplated by the editor, to be devoted entirely to that deeply interesting record, has been merged with this, into one, thus adding to its departments a most attractive feature — rich, unique, and surpassing romance in its resume of startling facts and strange developments of the Perils, Valor, Amours and Devotedness specially pertaining to that sex, the wheat being carefully sifted from the chaff. The wonderful character of Woman's Career, North and South, during a four years' fratricidal war which reached all classes and penetrated every element and interest of society, and in which she herself was summoned to bear such variety and burden of experience, has no counterpart whatsoever in the history of mankind ; a fact which, indeed, could not have been otherwise, when it is considered that never before, in the ages of the world, was such a contest waged, and that at no previous period was woman's social and intellectual equality with the other sex so generally admitted, or her influence so powerful and wide-spread, — thus necessarily bringing her, by a coincidence truly memorable, in active identity with public affairs, in the greatest of human crises !

The part which the sex enacted, under these unparalleled circumstances, is here most amply illustrated, — excluding, of course, much that was of inferior interest, and the record will at least be adjudged a Brilliant, Romantic and Inviting one, on glanc ing at the Index of subjects comprised in this volume, those relating to Woman being there printed in Italics. Not only in respect to the specialty just remarked upon, but equally with reference to all the other topical divisions of the volume, it may be asserted that no trouble, labor, travel, nor consideration of time or cost, has been allowed to stand in the way of their most complete preparation. Familiar intercourse with officials and privates, attendance at the Departments in Washington, personal observation and correspond ence, all the official documents, the teeming issues of the newspaper press, in their vast and prolific range, — of all these, the editor has painstakingly and freely availed himself, during the last five years, in order to produce a work, if not absolutely perfect, yet certainly not excelled, in the quality of readableness, by any Book of the War.

Of the many thousand anecdotes which have passed underhis inspection, in the immense accumulation of materials named, — common to all and sj)ecial to none, — the contents of this volume comprise those which were found to have called forth the greatest interest and admiration on the part of the public, and which were thought to most aptly exhibit the lights and shades of the war. This was the aim and object kept in view. A conscientious care was justly called for, and duly exercised, in excluding those productions concerning the war, to which the pens that gave them birth affixed a retaining claim ; and a faithful comparison, in that respect, of what is here brought together, with the contents of other collections, is freely invited. It was nevertheless found inherently impossible, in a vast number of instances, (out of more than seven thousand memorabilia in hand,) owing to the rapid and wide-spread publication in so many issues of the press, interchangeably, of the same anecdotes or performances, to trace out and authenticate their paternity or first source ; — a difficulty still further increased by the citation, in frequent cases, of different authorities or sources for the same narration, incident, poem, etc, etc.

This lack and confusion of identity, so com mon, and perhaps unavoidable, in the making up of anecdotical columns, selections of miscellany, poetry,and extracts from current books, for the press, did not, however, inter pose any barrier to their use in a work like this. But if, arising from this circumstance, anything has thus unconsciously been appropriated for these pages which encroaches upon any exclusive and verified proprietorship, or upon any repository of avowed and genuine originality, such matter will as readily and cheerfully be eliminated from the text as it was there given a place. With reference to those passages which involve the heated language of personal colloquy or combat, it seemed not always possible, however much to be desired, to divest them of all their excited, and even irreverent expletives, and at the same time preserve the animus of the occurrence as it actually transpired. Nor, indeed, is it a

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. question in ethics, readily to be answered in the affirmative, whether the recital of those ghastly scenes of blood and death, which necessarily constitute the substance of every war and of all war literature, and which are read of with such avidity, can be considered any more congenial to a correct taste and moral sensibility, than the merely verbal attestations, however imprecatory, by which they were accompanied. As showing the extent and variety of matter contained in this volume, the simple statement wtII suffice, that the accompanying list of Battles, Engagements, Collisions, etc., etc., consulted in the preparation of these anecdotes, numbers several thousand ; — of Generals and Naval Commanders, and of Public Vessels, many hundred ;— each list reflecting a multitude of pleasing, spicy, unique, and startling events.

Besides these, there is presented a classified outline of the topical contents or special subjects pertaining to each of the Eight Parts, and a most copious Index to the leading anec dotes is placed at the close. Of the mechanical appearance of this book, the names, enterprise and liberality, of the eminent Publishers, will at once be accepted as vouchers that nothing in the typographical and illustrative art has been omitted by them, to gratify the eye, and to render the publication one in every way deserving universal patronage. The numerous Illustrative Engravings, executed in the highest style of beauty and without regard to cost, by the most skillful artists in the country, which are here presented, constitute a feature of embellishment in no other instance attempted in books of this kind.

They are of themselves alone worth the full price of the volume. PLATES, PORTRAITS, AND DESCRIPTIVE EMBELLISHMENTS. Designed and Engraved Expressly for this Work, by N. Orr & Co., New York. PAOB. 1. LIEUT.-GEN. GRANT AND HIS BRAVE SOLDIERS, . . Frontispiece. 2. EMBLEMATIC TITLE-PAGE,— Battle and Corps' Flags,— Printed is Colors, . 3 3. Dedicatory Vignette, . . . . . . . .10 4. ILLUSTRATIVE PLATE FOR

Part I

— The American Flag Triumphant! . 21 5. Illuminated Initial Letter, ........ 23 6. Portrait of John C Calhoun, ....... 24 7. Afraid of the Girl's Eye, ........ 26 8. According to their Sympathies, ....... 27 9. Vindication of the Flag Abroad, . . . . . . .30 10. Portrait of Edwin M. Stanton, ....... 34 11. Portrait of Joseph Holt, ........ 35 12. Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, ....... 38 13. Homage to the Flag by an Eagle, . . . . . . .39 14. Front-Door Confabulations, ....... 43 15. Portrait of Fernando Wood, . . . . . . .47 16. Portrait of C L. Vallandigham, ....... 48 17. Carolina Unionist,' ......... 63 18. Portrait of Stephen A. Douglas, ...... 57 19. Portrait of William H Seward, ....... 68 20. And the Brother shall Deliver up the Brother to Death, ... 59 21. Hard Shell Brethren, ........ 65 22.

Portrait of Gen. Robert Anderson, ...... 68 23. Portrait of Lieut.-Gen. Winfield Scott, . . . . . .72 24. Minute Men of Massachusetts, ....... 72 25. Portrait of Col. R. Barnwell Rhett, ...... 74 26. Portrait of John Tyler, ........ 76 27. Portrait of Preston S. Brooks, ....... 78 28. The Boy Father to the Man, ....... 80 29. Presidential Favor for Everybody, . . . . . . .86 30. Portrait of Howell Cobb, ........ 89 31. Which Side? .......... 92 32. Portrait of Mrs. Lincoln, ....... 93 33. Romantic Adventure, ......... 98 34. Portrait of Edmund Ruffin, ....... 102 35. Refusing to Volunteer, ......•■ 106 36. Portrait of Andrew Jackson, ....... H° 37. Swear Him, &c, .......•• 1u 38. Witnessing and Dying for the Truth, ....•• l2° 39. Portrait of Edward Everett, .....•• 121 40. Portrait of J. C. Breckinridge, .....■■ I25 41.

Stating the Exact Alternative,. ....••■ 126 42. Portrait of Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, ....•• 12' 43. Portrait of Charles J. Faulkner, . . . . ■ • • lUGE- 44. Interceding for her Father, ....... 134 45. God's Flag, .......... HO 46. Portrait of R. M. T. Hunter, ....... 141 47. Portrait of Gen. Philip Sheridan, ....... 143 48. Length of the War, ........ 144 49. AccoMiipDATiNG Himself to Circumstances, ...... 152 50. ILLUSTRATIVE PLATE FOR

Part II

— Ho ! for the War, ... 155 51. Illuminated Initial Letter, ....■••• 167 52. How does he grow 'em? .....••• 168 53. Love and Patriotism, . . . . . . . • .162 64. Ira's Wife and his Breeches, ....... 165 55. Fate of a Coward, .......•• 168 56. Fannnie and Nellie, ........ 170 57. Career of Frank Henderson, ......-• 173 68. Portrait of Lieut.-Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, ..... 177 59. Hopeful Tackett, . . . . . . . . .178 60. Portrait of John Letcher, . . . . . . .182 61. Effect of Crinoline, . . . . •. . . . . 182 62. Portrait of " Stonewall " Jackson, ...... 183 63. Portrait of Col. Billy Wilson, ....... 184 64. Quite the Youngest Recruit, ....... 185 65. Drafting Scene, ......... 186 66. Equal to the Emergency, ....... 193 67. Fightin' ober a Bone, ........ 195 68. Bounty Jumper Captured by a Dog, ...... 200 69.

Tender in Tears, but Patriotic, ....... 207 70. Snaked Away and Drummed In, . . . . . . .213 71. Tenderness of the President, ....... 217 72. ILLUSTRATIVE PLATE FOR

Part III

— Bombardment of Fort Sumter, . 219 73. Illuminated Initial Letter, ........ 221 74. Rallying around the Flag, ....... 222 75. Portrait of Gen. Geo. H. Thomas, ....... 222 76. Young America, ......... 228 77. Is the Colonel at Home ? . . . . . . 230 78. War and Navy Buildings, ....... 232 79. Old Capitol Prison, Washington, ....... 235 60. California Joe, ......... 236 81. Portrait of Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer, ..»,,. 238 82. Portrait of Gen. John C Fremont, ...... 240 83. Going in Quest of Satisfaction, ....... 242 84. Portrait of Gen. Humphrey Marshall, ..... 245 86. General Meade's Head-quarters, ..,,.,. 246 86. Well Done for a Youth, ....,.,, « 24^ 87. Portrait of Gen. Judson Kilpatrick, , ' 248 88. Good Samaritan, ■•...... 250 89. Portrait of Gen. Wm. W Averill, ..... _ 252 90. Too Big Not to be a Soldier, ..-.-.,. 258 91.

Portrait of Judah P. Benjamin, ..... , 259 92. Lieut. Davis's Task, •••..., 263 93. Portrait of Major Zagonti, . . ... ,, _ % < 267 94. Mrs. Brownell, the Heroine, ••.... 268 95. Portrait of Gen. Pope, • ••-.... . 270 96. Portrait of Gen. Saxton, »......, 97. Courtesies of Picket Life, . . „ P"E- 98. Portrait of Gen. A. Sidney Johnston. o„fl ' ° * ... z to 99. Won his Wager, ..... 9»g 100. Portrait of Gen. Longstreet, .... 2S, 101. Uncomfortably Warm Place, . ■ 00. ■ • . • . aoo 102. Head-quarters of Lee, Gettysburg, .... 287 103. Preferred to Die in the Field, .... goo 104. Characteristic Pluck, ..... oqn 105. Ragged Texans, ...... ono 106. Remember Fort Pillow, . or,~ ' ••*-... 305 107. Use for a Shell, ....... orig 108. Portrait of Gen. Jeff. Thompson, ..... 307 109. Fate of Two Germans, ...... 310 110.

Owning Up, . , . „,. 111. Portrait of Gen. Philip Kearny, .... . 313 112. Negro Rifleman, ...... 319 113. Portrait of Gen. E. D. Baker, ..... 300 114. Fairfax Court House, ....... 300. 115. Portrait of Col. Ellsworth, ..... 321 116. Bull Run Battlefield, ..... 303 117. Neutral Cornfield, ....... 305 118. Portrait of Gen. J. E. Johnston, ..... 326 119. Climbing the Mountains, ...... 328 120. Union Bushwhackers and Rebel Cavalry, , . 329 121. Portrait of Maj.-Gen. McPhersok, .... 330 122. Portrait of Gen. Barksdale, ...... , 332 123. Portrait of Gen. David Hunter, ...... 334 124, Union and Rebel Pickets, ...... 335 126. Portrait of Gen. A. E. Burnside, - . . . . 336 126. Soldiers Captured by a Boy, ...... , 337 127. Portrait of Albert Pike, ....... 337 128. Intrepid Conduct, ....... 338 129.

Bob, the Spunky Drummer Boy, ..... 339 130. Portrait of Gen. H. W. Slooum, ........ 341 131. Portrait of Gov. H. A. Wisb, ....... 342 132. Capt. Tilden's Lucky Escape, ........ 342 133. As Good as a Captured Gun, ....... 343 134. Portrait of Gen. J. C. Pemberton, ....... 344 135. Portrait of Gen. L. Polk, ••••... 345 136. Ahead of his Troops, ......... 346 137. Surrender of Gen. Lee, ....... 347 138. Portrait of Gen. G. A. Custer, . . . . . . . 34s 139. ILLUSTRATIVE PLATE FOR

Part IV

,— Naval Scenes and Exploits, . 850 140. Illuminated Initial Letter, ........ 351 141. Raking a Traitor, ......... 352 142. Naval Peacemaker, ......... 353 143. Portrait of Lieut. Worden, ....... 355 144. " Charge ! Chester, Charge I " . ... . . . . 356 145. Portrait of Admiral Dupont, ....... 357 146. Half-hour's Visit at Island No. 10, . . . . . . . 858 147. Light-House at Fort Morgan, ....... 361 148. Portrait of Admiral Porter, ........ 361 149. Before Vicksburg, ........ P*OE. 150. Pleasant Hoax all Round, . . . . . . . • 363 151. Wreck of the Monitor, ........ 364 152. Portrait of Capt. J. A. Winslow, . . . . . . • 365 153. Portrait of Admiral A. H. Foote, ...... 367 154. Blue-Jacket on his Mule, ........ 368 155. Lieut. Cushing's Great Exploit, ....... 371 156. Another Cassabianca, ......... 374 157.

Pictorial Humors of the War, ....... 375 158. Portrait of Secretary Welles, ....... 376 159. Portrait of Com. Bailey, . . . . . . • • 376 160. Portrait of Capt. Semmes, ........ 379 161. Buchanan's Sword Yielded, ....... 380 162, River Devils for Carrying on War, ....... 383 163. The Merrimac, ......... 387 164. Gunboat Fight at Fort Pillow, ....... 389 165. Fleet of Gunboats in the James River, ...... 390 166. Farragut lashed vo the Mast, ....... 391 167. Gunboat Kansas, ......... 394 168. Willing to part with his other Leg, ...... 397 169. ILLUSTRATIVE PLATE FOR

Part V

,— Varieties of the War, . . 399 170. Illuminated Initial Letter, ........ 401 171. "Mark Time," .......... 402 172. Portrait of Gen. Sherman, ........ 402 173. Sentry's Encounter with a Regular, ...... 403 174. Halting Effect of the Ardent, ....... 404 175. Portrait of Secretary Chase, ....... 405 176. Col. Owen's Squad Drill, ........ 407 177. Portrait of Gen. McClellan, ....... 410 178. Portrait of Gen. Rosecrans, ........ 411 179. Portrait of Gen. J. C. Davis, ....... 413 180. Encounter between Nelson and Davis, ...... 414 181. Portrait of Gen. Nelson, ........ 414 182. Portrait of Gen. McCook, ........ 417 183. Col. Gazley doing Guard Duty, . . . . . . 4jg 184. Portrait of J. C. Ely, ....... 424 185. Caught in his own Trap, ....... 424 186. Portrait of Gen. Hardee, ...... . 427 187. Gen. Butler's Head-quarters, ...... 429 188.

Whir's dat Nigger, ....... 430 189. Belligerent Work, ...... 439 190. Military Etiquette, ...... 405 191. Orders on the Battlefield, . ... 192. Portrait of Gen. N. P. Banks, .... 440 193. ILLUSTRATED PLATE FOR

Part VI

,— Colored Soldier's, . . .441 194. Illuminated Initial Letter, .... 4,0 195. Swamp Angel, . ... 444 196. Sanitary Commission, . . ... • 444 197. Wicked Joke upon a Postmaster. ,.„ » • • . . . 440 198. Relay House . . ..„ . 447 199. Army Kitchen, . . ,,„ ' •••.... 448 200. Swearing in a Cook, ..... 440 201. Milking the Cow, . ..... •••••«. 451 202. Sergeant Davis's Tender Beef, . . , 45d 203. Portrait of Gen. Terry, ........ 456 204. Portrait of Gen. Halleck, ........ 457 205. Portrait of Gen. Wadsworth, ....... 458 206. Peddler and Gen. Nelson, ........ 459 207. Pumpkin Pie for Wickford, ....... 463 208. Fresh Pork for the Eighth Illinois, ....... 466 209. Affecting Appeal to a Commissary, ...... 473 210. Conference of Newspaper Correspondents, ..... 476 211. Portrait of Gen. Hooker, ........ 477 212.

Telegraph Station, ........ 477 213. Lieut. 's Perfumed Breath, ....... 473 214. Prompt Settlement of a Claim, ....... 482 215. Field Carriages dispensed with, ....... 48.5 216. Question in Infantry Practice, ....... 488 217. Portrait of John H. Morgan, ........ 489 218. No Business wid a Gun, ....... 490 219. Portrait of Gen. Beauregard, ....... 491 220. Writing Home, ......... 495 221. Signalling, .......... 500 222. Nellie, the brave Battle Horse, ....... 501 223. Indian Mound, Chattanooga, ........ 603 224. Flight from the Shenandoah, ....... 506 225. Aunt Charlotte, the Old Cook, ....... 507 226. Bridge across Platte Creek, . . . . . . . 609 227. Inflating the Pontoon, . . . . . . . .510 228. Four Legged Messenger proved Disloyal, ..... 611 229. Saddling to suit the Route, . . . . . . ... 513 230.

ILLUSTRATIVE PLATE FOR PART VH,— Christian and Sanitary Commissions, 516 231. Illuminated Initial Letter, ........ 617 232. Portrait of Miss Brownlow, ....... 517 233. Beautiful, but Dead, ......... 518 234. That is my Brother, ........ 519 235. Tracts versus Pound Cake, ........ 522 236. Portrait of Alex. H. Stephens, . . . . . . . 523 237. Elizabeth Comstock with Dying Soldiers, ...... 526 238. Dalliance and Treachery, ....... 632 239. Portrait of Gov. Morgan, N. Y., ....... 534 240. Amours and Fancies of the Camp, ....... 536 241. Sweet Seventeen overhauling Secessionists, ..... 54J *j 242. Castle Thunder, ......... 641 243. Embalming-Building before Richmond, ...... 544 244. Court House and Hospital, ....... 546 245. Sergeant's Prophecy Fulfilled, ....... 547 246. Incident in the Battle of Fredericksburg, ..... 547 247.

Portrait of Pauline Cushman, ....... 549 248. Libby Prison, ......... 551 249. Loyalty in Virginia, . . ... . . . . . 552 250. Portrait of Mrs. Gen. Grant, ....... 554 251. Portrait of Gen. Tilghman, ........ 557 252. Gen. Lander and his Bible, ....... 558 253. Mistook the Guns, ......... 561 254. Portrait of Gen. R. E. Lee, ....... 662 255. Bodies Laid Out, ......... Page. 256. Head-Quarters of Gen. Burnside, ....... 565 257. Monument at Stone River, ........ 568 258. Proof against Federal Gallantry, ...... 569 259. Old Hannah, .......... 574 260. Familiar Soldier Scenes, (Housekeeping,) ..... 575 261. Burns, the Gettysburg Hero, ........ 577 262. Mose Bryan, ......... 57S 263. Soldiers' Graves, ......... 579 264. Military Prison at Salisbury, ....... 581 265. Miss Lee and the Yankee Corporal, ....... 582 266.

Portrait of Gen. Lyon, ........ 686 267. Watch kept by a Dog, ......... 587 268. Sherman's Absence of Mind, ....... 590 269. Portrait of Gen. Ben. McCulloch, ....... 590 270. Jerry and Gen. Thomas' Spy Glass, ...... 591 271. Portrait of Gen. Meade, ........ 594 272. Carving his own Head-board, ....... 595 273. Wickedness of Woman, ........ 697 274. Portrait of Bell Boyd, ........ 599 275. Old Ladies Conversing about Gen. Bragg, . . . . . . 605 276. Gen. Butler as a Young Lawyer, ....... 607 277. Railroad Depot, Atlanta, Ga., ....... 608 278. Alas, Poor Soldier! ....... 609 279. Portrait of Gov. Andrew, Mass., ....... 611 280. Enjoying Negro Hospitality, ....... 613 281. Frankie Bragg, ......... 614 282. A Young Woman Shoots a Guerrilla, . . . . . . 617 283. Major B. en route with the Widow, . . . . , . .624 284.

Portrait of Gov. Curtin, Pa., ........ 628 285. A Soldier Mustered Out, ........ 629 286. Portrait of Gen. Howard, ........ 630 287. ILLUSTRATIVE PLATE FOR

Part VIII

— Early Home and End of Pres. Lincoln, 632 288. Illuminated Initial Letter, ...... 633 289. Portrait of Chas. Sumner, ••....., 636 290. Death of the Assassin, ....... 639 291. Portrait of Secretary Fessenden, ..... 640 292. Patience tried too far, ...... 641 293. Portrait of Jeff. Davis, •>..... , 642 294. Portrait of President Johnson, ..... 643 295. Andrew Johnson's Tailor Shop, .... g4g 296. Portrait of Mrs. Jeff. Davis. . . a.n » • ■ . . . o4y 297. Jeff.'s Capture by the Yanks, . . -.,.„ ' " • . • 650 298. Familiar Talk with Mr. Lincoln, ..... 652 299. Jeff, and the Blacksmith, . . „,,, ' • " ■ . • boo 300. Portrait of Geo. N. Sanders, . -ch ' • « * . 657 301. Grand Finale — "To whom it may Concern!" aCA GE1EEAL CONTENTS. _ _ +— Page. Preface, and Plan of the Work, - - - . . .7 List of Plates, Portraits, and Descriptive Embellishments, - 11 PART FIRST.

PATRIOTIC, POLITICAL, CIVIL, JUDICIAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, ETC. Pages 23-154. Memorable Annals and Reminiscences of Men and Measures Identified with the Great Struggle ; Heroic Devotion to the Star-Spangled Banner, — Valorous Defence of and Dying Blessings upon It ; Dark and Troublous Experiences of Unionists and Conspirators ; Tests and Trials of Loyalty, North and South; Famous Legal and Judicial Incidents; Peculiar Instances of Administering and Taking the Oath; Allegiance under Stress of Circumstances; Disposal of Knotty Cases; Logic and Lessons for Secessionists; Amusing Colloquies; Flashes of Rhetoric ; Official Gravities, Jokes, Raillery, Blunders, Retorts, Burlesques, Witticisms ; &c, &c. PART SECOND. VOLUNTEERING, DRAFTING, COMMUTING, SUBSTITUTING, DESERTING, ETC. Pages 157-218. Noble Instances of Rallying to the Ranks, and of Enlistment among the Aged and Young; Hearings, Ludicrous and Perplexing, before the Commissioners ; Raw Recruits and Eccentric Characters ; Applicants for Exemption ; Ruses and Quibbles to Escape Duty — Strange Phenomena of Nativity, Age and Infirmities ; Bewildered Surgeons ; Luckless Conscripts; Rare Brokerage and Bounty Dealings; Flush Purses; Hardships and Miseries ; Side-Shaking Gaieties, Jests, Puns ; &c, &c CONTENTS.

PART THIRD GREAT CONFLICTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ARMY, AND ILLUSTRIOUS EXAMPLES OF INDIVIDUAL HEROISM IN THE RANK AND FILE, ETC. Pages 221-348. Brilliant Battle Scenes ; Military Characteristics of the Leading Generals, — their Appearance, Conversations, Orders, Tactics and Bravery, when Confronting the Enemy ; Martyrs on the Gory Field ; Unparalleled Fortitude and Endurance ; Coolness and Intrepidity in Danger ; Bold Movements of Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry; Splendid Charges; Desperate Hand-to-Hand Encounters; Extraordinary Sharpshooting ; Memorials of Youthful Courage ; Dealings with Bushwhackers and Guerrillas; Celebrities and Adventures of Camp, Picket, Spy, Scout and Staff ; Peril, Terror, Panic, and Disaster ; Mirth-Provoklng Sights, Scenes, Whims, Squibs, Oddities ; &c, &c. PART FOURTH.