The camp, the battle field, and the hospital; or, Lights and shadows of the great rebellion. Including adventures of spies and scouts, thrilling incidents, daring exploits, heroic deeds, wonderful escapes, sanitary and hospital scenes, prison scenes

Front matter

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Preface

This book, friendly reader, was not created ; like Topsy, " it growed." The author or compiler, whichever term you may choose to give him, had for four years past been a not uninterested observer of the great struggle, whicli it had been liis duty elsewhere to chronicle. In his researches into the causes and events of the war, its fearful battles, its alternations of liglit and shadow, its changes of policy, and its final and glorious triumphs, he had had abundant occasion to notice those personal achievements, those noble sacrifices, and that fearless devotion to the national cause whicli have so greatly distinguished this conflict. In the pages of a history of the war, such narratives and incidents could find no place; yet it seemed unjust to the great souls who had laid every thing upon their country's altar, without a murmur or a sigh, that their glorious sacrifices should not be held in grateful remembrance ; and it was from the desire to do some justice to their memory, that at an early day the writer commenced, at first for his own private reading merely, the collection of narratives and incidents of personal adventure and sacrifice in the war. Some of these were found in print, in books, periodicals, and newspapers; others were preserved in the annals or reports of charitable institutions, like the Sanitary and Christian Commissions ; a few had found record from a poet's pen, and a considerable number, b PREFACE.

tliough matters of oral tradition, had never appeared in print but were gleaned from the narrations of the parties themselves, or their friends. The garnering of these was a work of great delight to the writer, and as time passed on he felt desirous that others should share the pleasure he had enjoyed, in the perusal of the heroic deeds of his countrymen and countrywomen ; and so the book grew into such form and symmetry as it now possesses. In the hands of the American public he leaves it, with the conviction that they will be lenient to any faults they may observe in it, and will appreciate his honest and pains-taking endeavor to present to them a record of some of the personal adventures and incidents of the war.

L. P. B.

Brooldyn, N. Y., May, 1866.

This work will be beautifully illustrated with groups of the following Naval and Military Heroes, distinguished civilians, prominent Rebel Generals ; and will contain an elegant full-page steel portrait of Lieutenant- General Grant, besides numerous fine engravings of battle-scenes, etc.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

I=OK.TS.-A.ITS

LIKUT.

-GEN. GRANT, FRONTISPIECE.

GENERAL SYKE3.

•2.

GENERAL MEADE.

GILLMORE.

S.

HANCOCK.

>VALLACE.

WARREN.

GARFIELD.

WRIGHT.

SO.

SCHOFIELD.

"BALDY" SMITH.

SHERIDAN.

SICKLES.

KILPA TRICK

HEINTZELMAN.

CUSTER

SHERMAN.

BUPORD

ROSECRANS.

MERRITT

LOGAN.

AVERILL

HOWAliD.

TORBERT. •

SLOCUM.

SEDGWICK.

ROBERT McCOOK.

Mcpherson.

McCLEKNAND.

REYNOLDS.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SCOTT.

WADSWORTH.

GENERAL IIALLECK.

SUMNER.

IS.

DIX.

KEARNEY.

CASEY.

LYON

FRANKLIN.

BIRNEY.

BUELL.

MITCHELL.

SHIELDS.

RENO.

McCLELLAN.

GRIERSON

FOSTER.

ROUSSEAU.

TERRY.

WILSON.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

51. GENERAL KAUTZ. 62. " STONKMAN.

53. " TLKASONTON.

64. " GREGG.

55. VICE ADMIRAL FARRAGUT.

56. REAR " PORTER. fT. " " FOOTE.

58. " " DUPONT.

59. " " DAIILGUEN.

60. " " GOIiDSBOROUGlI.

61. COMMODORE WINSLOW.

6-'. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CUSIIINQ. iiZ. GENERAL R. E. LEE. 64. " " STONEWALL" JACKSON.

66. " EWELL.

66. GENERAL REAUKEGARD.

67. " LONG STREET. 6S. " BRECKINRIDGE.

CO. " A. P. HILL.

70. " FITZHUGII LEE.

71. COLONEL MOSBY.

72. GENERAL JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON.

74. " BRAGG.

75. LIEUT.-GEN. KIRBY SMITH.

76. MAJOR-GENERAL PRICE.

77. " A. S. JOHNSON.

78. " HARDEE.

79. " FORREST.

SO. " JOHN MORGVN.

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81. BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.

82. CAITURE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN.

83. BATTLE OF CIIAPIN'S FARM.

84. SURRENDER OF GENERAL LEE.

85. INTERVIEW BETWEEN GENER.\LS

SHERMAN AND JOHNSTON.

86. THE SCOUT.

87. PRISONERS' CAMP AT ANDERSON-

VILLE, GEORGIA. 8i. THE GREAT RAILROAD RAID.

89. OBSTRUCTING THE TRAIN.

90. MRS. BICKERDYKE AND TlIK tN-

faitjifCl surgeon.

al. MRS. BICKERDYKE USES HER dresses FOR THE UNION SOLDIERS.

9i. UNION SOLDIERS PURSUED BY BLOODHOUNDS.

CEiTES, ETC.

93. THE FIRST TENNESSEE CAVALRY

ESCORTING REBEL PRISONERS.

94. THE LEAP FOR LIFE.

95. THE PRICE OF LOYALTY IN E.A.ST

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 GETTYS-

BURG.

101. THE RESCUE. s

102. THE COUNTRY MUST BE SAVED IF

IT TAKES EVERY CHICKEN IN THE CONFEDERACY.

Contents

PAET I.

NARRATIVES OF SPIES, SCOUTS, AND DETECTIVES.

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