The pictorial book of anecdotes and incidents of the war of the rebellion, civil, military, naval and domestic ... from the time of the memorable toast of Andrew Jackson--"The federal union; it must be preserved!" ... to the assassination of President Lincoln, and the end of the war. With famous words and deeds of woman, sanitary and hospital scenes, prison experiences, &c

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Preface

PLAN OF THE WORK,

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 tlie 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 Avoman 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 wearisome and relentless persecution, and been brought to irretrievable penury and desolation ; 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.

Great Company of Heroic Martyrs ! The Nation's acclaim of gratitude hails and blesses you, and the Song of Jubilee which you have put into the hearts of the people — yea, of thrice ten millions ! — shall be taken up by coming generations, and in far distant lands now awaking to political consciousness, until every voice shall singresponsive to the Universal Anthem of Manhood Vindicated, Justice Regenerated, and Liberty Enthroned.

To exhibit and commemorate the course of events thus inaugurated in crimeful ambition and sectional heresy, and culminating in a New Birth, and in a larger, stronger, and more enduring Life to the Nation thus sought to be destroyed, the historian has gathered together and woven into thoughtful chapters the documentary materials and official details of the Struggle ; the poet's genius has lent its inspiration to the charm of glowing and melodious rhyme ; and the pen of romance has indited its most touching story of mingled pathos and horror, of principle tested, and suffering crowned with victory !

All these have their appropriate place, — their peculiar usefulness and adaptation. Future generations, scarcely less than the present, will read with absorbing avidity the historian's volume ; the poet's ringing verse will not cease to be the keynote to warm the sympathies and rouse the heart to greater love of patriotism, freedom and justice. ; and the more gushing sensibilities will find food in the well-wrought tale ot heart-trials not simply " founded " on fact, but the delineation of gaunt fact itself, in its relation to individual cases innumerable.

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The character of the present work, — The Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the War of the Rebellion, — is distinctive alike from that of the sober Histoiy, 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, — one and 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, Rodgers, 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 ; these, sifted like gold, are here spread out in all their varied attractiveness. Thus it is, that the rank and file, 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 ensign 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 among the tarpaulins and blue-jackets ; " hard-tack " and mule beef legends ; recruiting, 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 Avorks 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 discriminating exhibition of Woman's Career in the Scenes and Events of the War ! Perhaps 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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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 Avhatsoever in the history of mankind ; a fact Avhich, 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 Avoman'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 glancing 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 correspondence, 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 under his inspection, in the immense accumulation of materials named, — common to all and special 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 Avar. This Avas the aim and object kept in vieAV.

A conscientious care Avas justly called for, and duly exercised, in excluding those productions concerning the Avar, 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, Avith the contents of other collections, is freely invited. It Avas 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 common, and perhaps unavoidable, in the making up of anecdotical columns, selections of miscellany, poetry, and extracts from current books, for the press, did not, hoAvever, interpose 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 avoAved and genuine originality, such matter "will as readily and cheerfully be eliminated from the text as it Avas there giAen a place.

With reference to those passages which inA'ol\Te the heated language of personal colloquy or combat, it seemed not always possible, howeATer much to be desired, to divest them of all their excited, and eAren 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 will 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 anecdotes 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.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PLATES, PORTRAITS, AND DESCRIPTIVE EMBELLISHMENTS.

Designed.and Engraved Expressly for this Work, by N. Orr & Co., New York.

1. LIEUT.-GEN. GRANT AND HIS BRAVE SOLDIERS,

2. EMBLEMATIC TITLE-PAGE,— Battle and Corps' Flags,— Printed in Colors,

3. Dedicatory Vignette, ..:....

4. ILLUSTRATIVE PLATE FOR PART I.— The American Flag Triumphant!

6. Portrait of John C. Calhoun,

7. Afraid of the Girl's Eye,

8. According to their Sympathies,

9. Vindication of the Flag Abroad,

10. Portrait of Edwin M. Stanton,

11. Portrait of Joseph Holt,

12. Portrait of Abraham Lincoln,

13. Homage to the Flag by an Eagle,

14. Front-Door Confabulations,

15. Portrait of Fernando Wood,

16. Portrait of C. L. Vallandigham,

17. Carolina Unionist,

18. Portrait of Stephen A. Douglas,

19. Portrait of William H Seward,

20. And the Brother shall Deliver up the Brother to Death,

21. Hard Shell Brethren, ....

22. Portrait of Gen. Robert Anderson,

23. Portrait of Lieut.-Gen. Winfield Scott,

24. Minute Men of Massachusetts,

25. Portrait of Col. R. Barnwell Rhett,

26. Portrait of John Tyler,

27. Portrait of Preston S. Brooks,

28. The Boy Father to the Man,

29. Presidential Fayor for Everybody,

30. Portrait of Howell Cobb, .

31. Which Side?

32. Portrait of Mrs. Lincoln,

33. Romantic Adventure, . ,

34. Portrait of Edmund Ruffin,

35. Refusing to Volunteer,

36. Portrait of Andrew Jackson,

37. Swear Him, &c,

38. Witnessing and Dying for the Truth,

39. Portrait of Edward Everett,

40. Portrait of J. C. Breckinridge,

41. Stating the Exact Alternative,

42. Portrait of Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas,

43. Portrait of Charles J. Faulkner,

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LIST OP ILLUSTRATIONS.

44. Interceding for her Father,

46. Portrait of R. M. T. Hunter,

47. Portrait of Gen. Philip Sheridan,

48. Length of the War,

49. • Accommodating Himself to Circumstances,

50. ILLUSTRATIVE PLATE FOR PART II.— Ho! for the War,

52. How does he grow 'em?

53. Love and Patriotism, .

54. Ira's Wife and his Breeches,

55. Fate of a Coward,

56. Fannnie and Nellie;

57. Career of Frank Henderson, .

58. Portrait of Lieut.-Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

59. Hopeful Tackett,

60. Portrait of John Letcher,

61. Effect of Crinoline,

62. Portrait of " Stonewall " Jackson,

63. Portrait of Col. Billy Wilson,

64. Quite the Youngest Recruit, 65* Drafting Scene,

66. Equal to the Emergency,

67. Fightin' ober a Bone,

68. Bounty Jumper Captured by a Dog,

69. Tender in Years, but Patriotic,

70. Snaked Away and Drummed In,

71. Tenderness of the President,

72. ILLUSTRATIVE PLATE FOR PART III.— Bombardment of Fort Sumter,

74. Rallying around the Flag,

75. Portrait of Gen. Geo. H. Thomas,

76. Young America,

77. Is the Colonel at Home?

78. War and Navy Buildings,

79. Old Capitol Prison, Washington,

80. California Joe,

81. Portrait of Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer,

82. Portrait of Gen. John C. Fremont,

83. Going in Quest of Satisfaction,

84. Portrait of Gen. Humphrey Marshall,

85. General Meade's Head-quarters,

86. Well Done for a Youth, .

87. Portrait of Gen. Judson Kilpatrick,

88. Good Samaritan,

89. Portrait of Gen. Wm. W Ayerill,

90. Too Big Not to be a Soldier,

91. Portrait of Judah P. Benjamin,

92. Lieut. Davis's Task,

93. Portrait of Major Zagonyi,

94. Mrs. Brownell, the Heroine,

95. Portrait of Gen. Pope,

96. Portrait of Gen. Saxton, -

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97. Courtesies of Picket Life,

98. Portrait of Gen. A. Sidney Johnston,

99. Won his Wager,

100. Portrait of Gen. Longstreet, .

101. Uncomfortably Warm Place,

102. Head-quarters of Lee, Gettysburg,

103. Preferred to Die in the Field,

104. Characteristic Pluck,

105. Ragged Texans,

106. Remember Fort Pillow,

107. Use for a Shell,

108. Portrait of Gen. Jeff. Thompson,

109. Fate of Two Germans,

110. Owning Up,

111. Portrait of Gen. Philip Kearny,

112. Negro Rifleman,

113. Portrait of Gen. E. D. Baker,

114. Fairfax Court House, . . -

115. Portrait of Col. Ellsworth,

116. Bull Run Battlefield,

117. Neutral Cornfield,

118. Portrait of Gen. J. E. Johnston,

119. Climbing the Mountains,

120. Union Bushwhackers and Rebel Cavalry

121. Portrait of Maj.-Gen. McPherson,

122. Portrait of Gen. Barksdale, .

123. Portrait of Gen. Dayid Hunter,

124. Union and Rebel Pickets,

125. Portrait of Gen. A. E. Burnside,

126. Soldiers Captured by a Boy, .

127. Portrait of Albert Pike, .

128. Intrepid Conduct,

129. Bob, the Spunky Drummer Boy,

130. Portrait of Gen. H. W. Slocum,

131. Portrait of Gov. H. A. Wise,

132. Capt. Tilden's Lucky Escape, .

133. As Good as a Captured Gun,

134. Portrait of Gen. J. C. Pemberton,

135. Portrait of Gen. L. Polk,

136. Ahead of his Troops, .

137. Surrender of Gen. Lee,

138. Portrait of Gen. G. A. Custer,

139. ILLUSTRATIVE PLATE FOR PART IV

141. Raking a Traitor, .

142. Naval Peacemaker,

143. Portrait of Lieut. Worden,

144. " Charge ! Chester, Charge J "

145. Portrait of Admiral Dupont,

146. Half-hour's Visit at Island No. 10,

147. Light-House at Fort Morgan,

148. Portrait of Admiral Porter, .

149. Before Vicksburg,

Naval Scenes and Exploits,

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150. Pleasant Hoax all Round, ....

151. Wreck of the Monitor,

152. Portrait of Capt. J. A. Winslow,

153. Portrait of Admiral A. H. Foote,

154. Blue-Jacket on his Mule,

155. Lieut. Cushing's Great Exploit,

156. Another Cassabianca, .

157. • Pictorial Humors of the War,

158. Portrait of Secretary Welles,

159. Portrait of Com. Bailey, .

160. Portrait of Capt. Semmes,

161. Buchanan's Sword Yielded,

162. ■ River Devils for Carrying on War, .

163. The Merrimac,

164. Gunboat Fight at Fort Pillow,

165. Fleet of Gunboats in the James River,

166. Farragut lashed <to the Mast,

167. Gunboat Kansas,

168. Willing to part with his other Leg,

169. ILLUSTRATIVE PLATE FOR PART V.,

171. "Mark Time,"

172. Portrait of Gen. Sherman,

173. Sentry's Encounter with a Regular,

174. Halting Effect of the Ardent,

175. Portrait of Secretary Chase,

176. Col. Owen's Squad Drill,

177. Portrait of Gen. McClellan,

178. Portrait of Gen. Rosecrans, .

179. Portrait of Gen. J. C. Davis,

180. Encounter between Nelson and Davis,

181. Portrait of Gen. Nelson, .

182. Portrait of Gen. McCook,

183. Col. Gazley doing Guard Duty,

184. Portrait of J. C. Ely, .

185. Caught in his own Trap,

186. Portrait of Gen. Hardee,

187. Gen. Butler's Head-quarters,

188. Whar's dat Nigger,

189. Belligerent Work,

190. Military Etiquette,

191. Orders on the Battlefield,

192. Portrait of Gen. N. P. Banks,

193. ILLUSTRATED PLATE FOR PART VI.,— Colored Soldiers, 194.. Illuminated Initial Letter,

195. Swamp Angel,

196. Sanitary Commission, .

197. Wicked Joke upon a Postmaster, .

198. Relay House

199. Army Kitchen,

200. Swearing in a Cook,

201. Milking the Cow, .

202. Sergeant Davis's Tender Beef,

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LIST OP ILLUSTKATIONS.

203. Portrait of Gen. Terry,

204. Portrait of Gen. Halleck,

205. Portrait of Gen. Wadsworth,

206. Peddler and Gen. Nelson,

207. Pumpkin Pie for Wickford,

208. Fresh Pork for the Eighth Illinois, .

209. Affecting Appeal to a Commissary,

210. Conference of Newspaper Correspondents,

211. Portrait of Gen. Hooker,

212. Telegraph Station,

213. Lieut. 's Perfumed Breath

214. Prompt Settlement of a Claim,

215. Field Carriages dispensed with,

216. Question in Infantry Practice,

217. Portrait of John H. Morgan, .

218. No Business wid a Gun,

219. Portrait of Gen. Beauregard,

220. Writing Home,

221. Signalling,

222. Nellie, the brave Battle Horse,

223. Indian Mound, Chattanooga,

224. Flight from the Shenandoah,

225. Aunt Charlotte, the Old Cook,

226. Bridge across Platte Creek,

227. Inflating the Pontoon,

228. Four Legged Messenger proved Disloyal,

229. Saddling to suit the Route,

230. ILLUSTRATIVE PLATE FOR PART VII.,— Christian and

232. Portrait of Miss Brownlow,

233. Beautiful, but Dead, .

234. That is my Brother,

235. Tracts versus Pound Cake,

236. Portrait of Alex. H. Stephens,

237. Elizabeth Comstock with Dying Soldiers,

238. Dalliance and Treachery,

239. Portrait of Gov. Morgan, N. Y.,

240. Amours and Fancies of the Camp, .

241. Sweet Seventeen overhauling Secessionists,

242. Castle Thunder, ....

243. Embalming-Building before Richmond,

244. Court House and Hospital,

245. Sergeant's Prophecy Fulfilled,

246. Incident in the Battle of Fredericksburg,

247. Portrait of Pauline Cushman,

248. Libby Prison, ....

249. Loyalty in Virginia, .

250. Portrait of Mrs. Gen. Grant,

251. Portrait of Gen. Tilghman, ..

252. Gen. Lander and his Bible,

253. Mistook the Guns,

254. Portrait of Gen. R. E. Lee,

255. Bodies Laid Out,

Sanitary Commissions,

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

256. Head-Quarters of Gen. Burnside, .

257. Monument at Stone River,

258. Proof against Federal Gallantry,

259. Old Hannah, ....

260. Familiar Soldier Scenes, (Housekeeping,)

261. Burns, the Gettysburg Hero, .

262. Mose Bryan, ....

263. Soldiers' Grates,

264. Military Prison at Salisbury,

265. Miss Lee and the Yankee Corporal, .

266. Portrait of Gkn. Lyon,

267. Watch kept by a Dog, .

268. Sherman's Absence of Mind, . *

269. Portrait of Gen. Ben. McCulloch,

270. Jerry and Gen. Thomas' Spy Glass,

271. Portrait of Gen. Meade,

272. Carving his own Head-board,

273. Wickedness of Woman,

274. Portrait of Bell Boyd,

275. Old Ladies Conversing about Gkn. Bragg,

276. Gen. Butler as a Young Lawyer, .

277. Railroad Depot, Atlanta, Ga.,

278. Alas, Poor Soldier!

279. Portrait of Gov. Andrew, Mass.,

280. Enjoying Negro Hospitality,

281. Frankie Bragg,

282. A Young Woman Shoots a Guerrilla,

283. Major B. en route with the Widow, .

284. Portrait of Gov. Curtin, Pa.,

285. A Soldier Mustered Out,

286. Portrait of Gen. Howard, .

287. ILLUSTRATIVE PLATE FOR PART VIII.— Early Home

289. Portrait of Chas. Sumner,

290. Death of the Assassin,

291. Portrait of Secretary Fessenden,

292. Patience tried too far,

293. Portrait of Jeff. Davis,

294. Portrait of President Johnson,

295. Andrew Johnson's Tailor Shop,

296. Portrait of Mrs. Jeff. Davis,

297. Jeff.'s Capture by the Yanks, .

298. Familiar Talk with Mr. Lincoln, .

299. Jeff, and the Blacksmith,

300. Portrait of Geo. N. Sanders,

301. Grand Finale — "To whom it may Concern!"

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GENERAL CONTENTS.

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Preface, and Plan of the Work, -

List of Plates, Portraits, and Descriptive .Embellishments, - 11

Part First. Patriotic, Political, Civil, Judicial, Administrative, Etc

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

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.

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Part Third

GREAT CONFLICTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ARMY, AND ILLUSTRIOUS EXAMPLES OF INDIVIDUAL HEROISM IN THE RANK AND FILE, ETC.

Brilliant Battle Scenes ; Military Characteristics op 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-Provoking Sights, Scenes, Whims, Squibs, Oddities ; &c., &c.

Part Fourth. Naval And Commercial; Squadron, Fleet, Steamer, Gunboat

TRANSPORT AND PRIVATEER; THEIR CRUISES, OFFICERS,

PERFORMANCES, ETC.

Terrible Engagements ; Suffering and Death for the Flag ; Havoc and Horrors of Modern Bombardment ; Blockade Exploits ; Feats of Seamanship ; Furious Personal Combats ; Long and Exciting Chases ; Escapes, Rescues, Prizes ; Thrilling Catastrophes and Tragedies, Captures, Sinkings and Surrenders ; Awkward Landsmen, Raw Marines, Jolly Veterans, and Treacherous Pilots ; Jack Afloat and Ashore ; Freaks, Drolleries, Haps and Mishaps, among the Loyal Tarpaulins and Blue Jackets ; &c, &c.

Part Fifth. Military Organization And Equipment, Discipline And Drill

PARADE, REVEILLE, REVIEWS, ORDNANCE, PAROLES, PASSES,

FURLOUGHS, COUNTERSIGNS, FUGITIVE HUNTS, ETC.

Mustering-in ; Splendid Specimens of Soldierly Movement; Dexterous Handling of Arms ; Evolutions, Comical and Piquant; Queer Dilemmas ; Uncouth Subjects and Verdant Victims, White and Black ; Grotesque Performances; Novel Terms and Phraseology; Bivouac Sights; Tasks and Pleasantries; Mistakes, Jocularities, Facetije; &c, &c.

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Part Sixth

COMMISSARY AND RATIONS, FINANCE AND CURRENCY, THE PRESS, THE MAILS, THE TELEGRAPH, ETC.

Uncle Sam's Supplies; Subsistence under Difficulties; 'Hard-Tack' and Mule Beef Legends ; Foraging Raids ; Disloyal Fowls and Contraband Dainties; Impromptu Confiscations in a Small Way; Dialogues with the Quartermaster; Shameful Impositions; Scrip and Currency Varieties ; Unique Banking Operations ; Collection Excursions at the South, Chivalric Repudiation ; Tricks, Artifice, and Accomplishments of Editors, Reporters and Correspondents ; Incidents of the Mail ; Telegraphic Odds and Ends, Miscellanies, Novelties, Finesse; &c, &c.

Part Seventh. Domestic, Moral, Womanly, Sanitary, Affectional, Matrimonial

ROMANTIC, ETC.

Exhibition of Personal Traits, — Benevolence, Generosity, Courtesy, Magnanimity, &c; Illustrations of the Home Affections and Household Attachments ; Female Soldiers ; Regimental Pets ; Marriages in Camp; Noble Words and Deeds of Loyal Women; Rancor and Criminalities of Female Secessionists ; Hospital Patients ; Ministrations to the Sick and Wounded ; Bogus Invalids ; Partings, Reunions, Bereavements, and Burials; Touching Death-bed Scenes, — Last Words, Mementoes, Keepsakes and Souvenirs ; Prison Contacts, Companions, and Horrors ; Sayings and Doings of Chaplains ; Genialities, Carricatures, Pathos, Fancies and Realities; &c, &c.

Part Eighth

FINAL SCENES AND EVENTS IN THE GREAT DRAMA ; ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN; IGNOMINIOUS DOOM OF JEFFERSON DAVIS, ETC.

The Most Striking Occurrences relating to the Assassination Conspiracy, the Tragedy, the Actors and their Doom ; Remarkable Passages and Conversations in Mr. Lincoln's Presidential Life, — Memorial Incidents of his Death and of a Nation's Mourning ; Capture and Custody of Jefferson Davis, — his Sayings and Doings, Personal Bearing among his Captors, and Ignominious Fate; Interesting Reminiscences in the Career of Andrew Johnson ; &c, &c.

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List of Battles, Engagements, Collisions, Captures, Surrenders, Surprises, etc., on Land and Sea, during the Rebellion, — consulted in the Preparation of these Anecdotes, - - 661

List of the Public Vessels employed in the War, and consulted in the Preparation of these Anecdotes, - 681

Names of the Generals and Chief Naval Officers, under whose Command, or in whose Departments, the Anecdotical Incidents, etc., here given occurred, ----- 685