Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of John McElroy - David Widger (editor)

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XLI. LETTER. SOME FEATURES OF THE MORTALITY--PERCENTAGE OF DEATHS TO THOSE CHAPTER LIVING-- AN AVERAGE MEAN ONLY STANDS THE MISERY THREE MONTHS-- XLII. DESCRIPTION OF THE PRISON AND THE CONDITION OF THE MEN THEREIN, BY A LEADING SCIENTIFIC MAN OF THE SOUTH. DIFFICULTY OF EXERCISING--EMBARRASSMENTS OF A MORNING WALK--THE CHAPTER RIALTO OF THE PRISON--CURSING THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY--THE XLIII. STORY OF THE BATTLE OF SPOTTSYLVANIA COURTHOUSE. REBEL MUSIC--SINGULAR LACK OF THE CREATIVE POWER AMONG THE CHAPTER SOUTHERNERS-- CONTRAST WITH SIMILAR PEOPLE ELSEWHERE--THEIR XLIV. FAVORITE MUSIC, AND WHERE IT WAS BORROWED FROM--A FIFER WITH ONE TUNE. CHAPTER AUGUST--NEEDLES STUCK IN PUMPKIN SEEDS--SOME PHENOMENA OF XLV. STARVATION-- RIOTING IN REMEMBERED LUXURIES. SURLY BRITON--THE STOLID COURAGE THAT MAKES THE ENGLISH FLAG A BANNER OF TRIUMPH--OUR COMPANY BUGLER, HIS CHARACTERISTICS AND CHAPTER HIS DEATH--URGENT DEMAND FOR MECHANICS--NONE WANT TO GO-- XLVI. TREATMENT OF A REBEL SHOEMAKER-- ENLARGEMENT OF THE STOCKADE-- IT IS BROKEN BY A STORM-- THE WONDERFUL SPRING. “SICK CALL,” AND THE SCENES THAT ACCOMPANIED IT--MUSTERING THE LAME, HALT AND DISEASED AT THE SOUTH GATE--AN UNUSUALLY BAD CASE- CHAPTER -GOING OUT TO THE HOSPITAL--ACCOMMODATION AND TREATMENT OF THE XLVII. PATIENTS THERE--THE HORRIBLE SUFFERING IN THE GANGRENE WARD-- BUNGLING AMPUTATIONS BY BLUNDERING PRACTITIONERS--AFFECTION BETWEEN A SAILOR AND HIS WARD-- DEATH OF MY COMRADE. DETERMINATION TO ESCAPE--DIFFERENT PLANS AND THEIR MERITS--I CHAPTER PREFER THE APPALACHICOLA ROUTE--PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE--A XLVIII. HOT DAY--THE FENCE PASSED SUCCESSFULLY PURSUED BY THE HOUNDS-- CAUGHT-- RETURNED TO THE STOCKADE. AUGUST--GOOD LUCK IN NOT MEETING CAPTAIN WIRZ--THAT WORTHY'S CHAPTER TREATMENT OF RECAPTURED PRISONERS--SECRET SOCIETIES IN PRISON-- XLIX. SINGULAR MEETING AND ITS RESULT--DISCOVERY AND REMOVAL OF THE OFFICERS AMONG THE ENLISTED MEN. FOOD--THE MEAGERNESS, INFERIOR QUALITY, AND TERRIBLE SAMENESS-- CHAPTER REBEL TESTIMONY ON THE SUBJECT--FUTILITY OF SUCCESSFUL L EXPLANATION. SOLICITUDE AS TO THE FATE OF ATLANTA AND SHERMAN'S ARMY--PAUCITY CHAPTER OF NEWS --HOW WE HEARD THAT ATLANTA HAD FALLEN--ANNOUNCEMENT LI. OF A GENERAL EXCHANGE--WE LEAVE ANDERSONVILLE. SAVANNAH--DEVICES TO OBTAIN MATERIALS FOR A TENT--THEIR ULTIMATE CHAPTER SUCCESS --RESUMPTION OF TUNNELING--ESCAPING BY WHOLESALE AND LII. BEING RECAPTURED EN MASSE--THE OBSTACLES THAT LAY BETWEEN US AND OUR LINES. FRANK REVERSTOCK'S ATTEMPT AT ESCAPE--PASSING OFF AS REBEL BOY HE CHAPTER REACHES GRISWOLDVILLE BY RAIL, AND THEN STRIKES ACROSS THE LIII. COUNTRY FOR SHERMAN, BUT IS CAUGHT WITHIN TWENTY MILES OF OUR LINES. SAVANNAH PROVES TO BE A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER--ESCAPE FROM THE CHAPTER BRATS OF GUARDS--COMPARISON BETWEEN WIRZ AND DAVIS--A BRIEF LIV. INTERVAL OF GOOD RATIONS--WINDER, THE MAN WITH THE EVIL EYE-- THE DISLOYAL WORK OF A SHYSTER. WHY WE WERE HURRIED OUT OF ANDERSONVILLE--THE OF THE FALL OF CHAPTER ATLANTA-- OUR LONGING TO HEAR THE NEWS--ARRIVAL OF SOME FRESH LV. FISH--HOW WE KNEW THEY WERE WESTERN BOYS--DIFFERENCE IN THE APPEARANCE OF THE SOLDIERS OF THE TWO ARMIES. WHAT CAUSED THE FALL OF ATLANTA--A DISSERTATION UPON AN IMPORTANT PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM--THE BATTLE OF JONESBORO--WHY IT WAS CHAPTER FOUGHT-- HOW SHERMAN DECEIVED HOOD--A DESPERATE BAYONET LVI. CHARGE, AND THE ONLY SUCCESSFUL ONE IN THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN--A GALLANT COLONEL AND HOW HE DIED--THE HEROISM OF SOME ENLISTED MEN--GOING CALMLY INTO CERTAIN DEATH. CHAPTER A FAIR SACRIFICE--THE STORY OF ONE BOY WHO WILLINGLY GAVE HIS YOUNG LVII. LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY. WE LEAVE SAVANNAH--MORE HOPES OF EXCHANGE--SCENES AT DEPARTURE-- CHAPTER “FLANKERS"--ON THE BACK TRACK TOWARD ANDERSONVILLE--ALARM LVIII. THEREAT-- AT THE PARTING OF TWO WAYS--WE FINALLY BRING UP AT CAMP LAWTON. CHAPTER OUR NEW QUARTERS AT CAMP LAWTON--BUILDING A HUT--AN EXCEPTIONAL LIX. COMMANDANT--HE IS a GOOD MAN, BUT WILL TAKE BRIBES--RATIONS. THE RAIDERS REAPPEAR ON THE SCENE--THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE CHAPTER THOSE WHO WERE CONCERNED IN THE EXECUTION--A COUPLE OF LIVELY LX. FIGHTS, IN WHICH THE RAIDERS ARE DEFEATED--HOLDING AN ELECTION. THE REBELS FORMALLY PROPOSE TO US TO DESERT TO THEM-- CHAPTER CONTUMELIOUS TREATMENT OF THE PROPOSITION--THEIR RAGE--AN LXI. EXCITING TIME--AN OUTBREAK THREATENED--DIFFICULTIES ATTENDING DESERTION TO THE REBELS. SERGEANT LEROY L. KEY--HIS ADVENTURES SUBSEQUENT TO THE EXECUTIONS-- HE GOES OUTSIDE AT ANDERSONVILLE ON PAROLE--LABORS CHAPTER IN THE COOK-HOUSE-- ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE--IS RECAPTURED AND TAKEN LXII. TO MACON--ESCAPES FROM THERE, BUT IS COMPELLED TO RETURN--IS FINALLY EXCHANGED AT SAVANNAH. DREARY WEATHER--THE COLD RAINS DISTRESS ALL AND KILL HUNDREDS-- CHAPTER EXCHANGE OF TEN THOUSAND SICK--CAPTAIN BOWES TURNS A PRETTY, BUT LXIII. NOT VERY HONEST, PENNY. ANOTHER REMOVAL--SHERMAN'S ADVANCE SCARES THE REBELS INTO CHAPTER RUNNING US AWAY FROM MILLEN--WE ARE TAKEN TO SAVANNAH, AND LXIV THENCE DOWN THE ATLANTIC & GULF ROAD TO BLACKSHEAR CHAPTER BLACKSHEAR AND PIERCE COUNTRY--WE TAKE UP NEW QUARTERS, BUT ARE CALLED OUT FOR EXCHANGE--EXCITEMENT OVER SIGNING THE PAROLE--A LXV. HAPPY JOURNEY TO SAVANNAH--GRIEVOUS DISAPPOINTMENT SPECIMEN CONVERSATION WITH AN AVERAGE NATIVE GEORGIAN--WE LEARN CHAPTER THAT SHERMAN IS HEADING FOR SAVANNAH--THE RESERVES GET A LITTLE LXVI. SETTLING DOWN. OFF TO CHARLESTON--PASSING THROUGH THE RICE SWAMPS--TWO CHAPTER EXTREMES OF SOCIETY--ENTRY INTO CHARLESTON--LEISURELY WARFARE-- LXVII. SHELLING THE CITY AT REGULAR INTERVALS--WE CAMP IN A MASS OF RUINS-- DEPARTURE FOR FLORENCE. FIRST DAYS AT FLORENCE--INTRODUCTION TO LIEUTENANT BARRETT, THE CHAPTER RED- HEADED KEEPER--A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF OUR NEW QUARTERS-- LXVIII. WINDERS MALIGN INFLUENCE MANIFEST. BARRETT'S INSANE CRUELTY--HOW HE PUNISHED THOSE ALLEGED TO BE CHAPTER ENGAGED IN TUNNELING--THE MISERY IN THE STOCKADE--MEN'S LIMBS LXIX. ROTTING OFF WITH DRY GANGRENE. HOUSE AND CLOTHES--EFFORTS TO ERECT A SUITABLE RESIDENCE-- CHAPTER DIFFICULTIES ATTENDING THIS--VARIETIES OF FLORENTINE ARCHITECTURE-- LXX. WAITING FOR DEAD MEN'S CLOTHES--CRAVING FOR TOBACCO. DECEMBER--RATIONS OF WOOD AND FOOD GROW LESS DAILY--UNCERTAINTY CHAPTER AS TO THE MORTALITY AT FLORENCE--EVEN THE GOVERNMENT'S STATISTICS LXXI. ARE VERY DEFICIENT--CARE FOB THE SICK. DULL WINTER DAYS--TOO WEAK AND TOO STUPID To AMUSE OURSELVES-- CHAPTER ATTEMPTS OF THE REBELS TO RECRUIT US INTO THEIR ARMY--THE CLASS OF LXXII. MEN THEY OBTAINED --VENGEANCE ON “THE GALVANIZED"--A SINGULAR EXPERIENCE--RARE GLIMPSES OF FUN--INABILITY OF THE REBELS TO COUNT. CHAPTER CHRISTMAS--AND THE WAY THE WAS PASSED--THE DAILY ROUTINE OF LXXIII. RATION DRAWING--SOME PECULIARITIES OF LIVING AND DYING. NEW YEAR'S DAY--DEATH OF JOHN H. WINDER--HE DIES ON HIS WAY TO A CHAPTER DINNER --SOMETHING AS TO CHARACTER AND CAREER--ONE OF THE WORST LXXIV. MEN THAT EVER LIVED. ONE INSTANCE OF A SUCCESSFUL ESCAPE--THE ADVENTURES OF SERGEANT WALTER HARTSOUGH, OF COMPANY K, SIXTEENTH ILLINOIS CAVALRY--HE CHAPTER GETS AWAY FROM THE REBELS AT THOMASVILLE, AND AFTER A TOILSOME LXXV. AND DANGEROUS JOURNEY OF SEVERAL HUNDRED MILES, REACHES OUR LINES IN FLORIDA. THE PECULIAR TYPE OF INSANITY PREVALENT AT FLORENCE--BARRETT'S WANTONNESS OF CRUELTY--WE LEARN OF SHERMAN'S ADVANCE INTO SOUTH CHAPTER CAROLINA--THE REBELS BEGIN MOVING THE PRISONERS AWAY--ANDREWS LXXVI AND I CHANGE OUR TACTICS, AND STAY BEHIND--ARRIVAL OF FIVE PRISONERS FROM SHERMAN'S COMMAND--THEIR UNBOUNDED CONFIDENCE IN SHERMAN'S SUCCESS, AND ITS BENEFICIAL EFFECT UPON US. FRUITLESS WAITING FOR SHERMAN--WE LEAVE FLORENCE--INTELLIGENCE OF THE FALL OF WILMINGTON COMMUNICATED TO US BY A SLAVE--THE CHAPTER TURPENTINE REGION OF NORTH CAROLINA--WE COME UPON A REBEL LINE OF LXXVII BATTLE--YANKEES AT BOTH ENDS OF THE ROAD. RETURN TO FLORENCE AND A SHORT SOJOURN THERE--OFF TOWARDS CHAPTER WILMINGTON AGAIN--CRUISING A REBEL OFFICER'S LUNCH--SIGNS OF LXXVIII. APPROACHING OUR LINES --TERROR OF OUR RASCALLY GUARDS--ENTRANCE INTO GOD'S COUNTRY AT LAST. GETTING USED TO FREEDOM--DELIGHTS OF A LAND WHERE THERE IS ENOUGH OF EVERYTHING--FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE OLD FLAG--WILMINGTON CHAPTER AND ITS HISTORY --LIEUTENANT CUSHING--FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE LXXIX. COLORED TROOPS--LEAVING FOR HOME--DESTRUCTION OF THE “THORN” BY A TORPEDO--THE MOCK MONITOR'S ACHIEVEMENT. VISIT TO FORT FISHER, AND INSPECTION OF THAT STRONGHOLD--THE WAY IT CHAPTER WAS CAPTURED--OUT ON THE OCEAN SAILING--TERRIBLY SEASICK--RAPID LXXX RECOVERY-- ARRIVAL AT ANNAPOLIS--WASHED, CLOTHED AND FED-- UNBOUNDED LUXURY, AND DAYS OF UNADULTERATED HAPPINESS. CHAPTER CAPTAIN WIRZ THE ONLY ONE OF THE PRISON-KEEPERS PUNISHED--HIS LXXXII. ARREST, TRIAL AND EXECUTION. THE RESPONSIBILITY--WHO WAS TO BLAME FOR ALL THE MISERY--AN CHAPTER EXAMINATION OF THE FLIMSY EXCUSES MADE FOR THE REBELS--ONE LXXXIII. DOCUMENT THAT CONVICTS THEM--WHAT IS DESIRED. ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Frontpiece 2. “War" 8. Cumberland Gap, Looking Eastward 4. A Cavalry Squad 5. The 'Rebels Marching Through Jonesville 6. 'Leven Yards Killing the Rebel 7. A Scared Mule Driver 8. Bugler Sounding “Taps" 9. Company L Gathering to Meet the Rebel Attack 10. The Major Refuses to Surrender 11. Ned Johnson Trying to Kill the Rebel Colonel 12. Girls Astonished at the Jacket Tabs 14. An East Tennesseean 15. A Rebel Dandy 17. Turner in Quest of British Gold 18. Barnacle backs Discouraging a Visit from a Soldier 19. Ross Calling the Roll 20. An Evening's Amusement with the Guards 21. Prisoners' Culinary Outfit 23. Skimming, the Bugs From My Soup 23. “Spooning" 24. A Richmond News Boy 25. “Say, Guard: Do You Want to Buy Some Greenbacks?" 26. A “N'Yaarker" 27. Decoying Boisseux's Dog to Its Death 28. The Dead Scotchman 29. Map of Georgia, South Carolina and part of North Carolina 30. Cooking Rations 31. General John W. Winder 32. A Field hand 33. Scaling the Stockade 34. Captain llenri Wirz 35. The Prize-fight for the Skillet 36. Killing Lice by Singeing 37. Stripping the Dead for Clothes 38. A Plymouth Pilgrim 40. Midnight Attack of the Raiders 41. Ignominious End of a Tunnel Enterprize 42. Tunneling 43. Tattooing the Tunnel Traitor 44. Overpowering a Guard 45. A Master of the Hounds 46. Hounds Tearing a Prisoner 47. Shot at the Creek by the Guard 48. Cooking Mush 49. Seitz on Horseback 50. Finding Seitz Dead 51. A Case of Scurvy 52. Confiscating Soft Soap 63. Religious Services 54. The Priest Anointing the Dying 55. Raider Fight with one of Ellett's Marine Brigade 56. Key Bluffing His Would-be Assassins 67. Rebel Artillerists Training the Cannon on the Prison 58. Overthrow of the Raiders 59. Arrest of Pete Donnelly 60. Death of the Sailor 61. Execution of the Raiders 63. Sergeant A. R, Hill, 100th O. V. I. 63. “Spanking” a Thief 64. The Wounded Illinois Sergeant 65. The Idiotic Flute-Player 66. One of Sherman's “Veterans" 67. “You Hear Me" 68. Logan Taking Command of the Army of the Tennessee 69. Death of M'Pherson 70. The Work of a Shell 71. The Fight for the Flag 72. In the Rifle-pit After the Battle 73. Taken In 74. The Author's Appearance on Entering Prison 75. His Appearance in July, 1864 76. Little Red Cap 77. “Fresh Fish" 78. Interior of the Stockade, Viewed from the Southwest 79. Burying the Dead 80. The Graveyard at Andersonville, as the Rebels Left It 81. Denouncing the Southern Confederacy 82. The Charge 83. “Flagstaff" 84. Nursing a Sick Comrade 65. A Dream 86. The English Bugler 87. The Break in the Stockade 88. At the Spring 89. Morning Assemblage of Sick at the South Gate 91. Old Sailor and Chicken 92. Death of Watts 93. Planning Escape 94. Our Progress was Terribly Slow--Every Step Hurt Fearfully 95. “Come Ashore, There, Quick" 96. He Shrieked Imprecations and Curses 97. The Chain Gang 98. Interior of the Stockade--The Creek at the East Side 99. A Section from the East Side of the Prison Showing the Dead Line 100. “Half-past Eight O'clock, and Atlanta's Gone to H--l!” 101. Off for “God's Country" 102. Georgian Development of the “Proud Caucasian" 103. It was Very Unpleasant When a Storm Came Up 104. When We Matched Our Intellects Against a Rebel's 107. His New Idea was to have a Heavily Laden Cart Driven Around Inside the Dead Line 108. They Stood Around the Gate and Yelled Derisively 110. “See Heah; You Must Stand Back!” 111. He Bade Them Goodbye 112. “Wha-ah-ye!” 114. One of Ferguson's Cavalry 115. Then the Clear Blue Eyes and Well-remembered Smile 117. Millen 118. A House Builded With Our Own Own Hands 119. Our First Meat 120. A Lucky Find 121. Sergeant L. L. Key 124. “Where Are You Going, You D--d Yank?" 127. “Who Mout These Be?" 128. A Roadside View 129. The Charleston & Savannah Railroad 131. A Rice Field Girl 132. A Rice Swamp 133. A Scene in the “Burnt District" 134. The Part Where We Lay Was a Mass of Ruins 135. Ruins of St. Finbar Cathedral 136. The Unlucky Negro Fell, Pierced by a Score of Bullets 137. Recapture of the Runaways 139. “Take These Shears and Cut My Toes Off" 140. Corporal John W. January 142. Andrews Managed to Fish Out the Bag and Pass to Me Three Roasted Chickens 143. In God's Country at Last 144. Map of Wilmington and Neighborhood 148. The Infantry Assault on Fort Fisher 149. They Removed Every Trace of Prison Grime 152. Trial of Captain Wirz 153. Execution of Captain Wirz 154. “Peace" UNCLE DANIEL'S STORY OF “TOM” ANDERSON AND Twenty Great Battles. By John McElroy CONTENTS CHAPTER DARK DAYS OF 1861.-A FATHER WHO GAVE HIS CHILDREN TO THE COUNTRY.- I. RALLYING TO THE FLAG.-RAISING VOLUNTEERS IN SOUTHERN INDIANA. CHAPTER BATTLE OF THE "GAPS."-YOUNG HARVEY LYON BRUTALLY MURDERED.- II. UNCLE DANIEL'S RETURN.-RAISING TROOPS IN SOUTHERN INDIANA. BATTLE OF TWO RIVERS.-COL. TOM ANDERSON MEETS HIS BROTHER-IN- CHAPTER LAW.-UNCLE DANIEL BECOMES AN ABOLITIONIST.-A WINTER CAMPAIGN III. AGAINST A REBEL STRONGHOLD. CHAPTER BATTLE OF DOLINSBURG.-HEROIC CONDUCT OF COL. TOM ANDERSON - IV. REPORTED DEAD.-HIS WIFE REFUSES TO BELIEVE THE REPORT. ANOTHER GREAT BATTLE-TWO DAYS OF AWFUL FIGHTING AT PITTSKILL CHAPTER LANDING-HARD-WON VICTORY-UNCLE DANIEL'S SONS BEAR THEMSELVES V. GALLANTLY. CHAPTER "K. G. C."-ORGANIZATION OF THE ENEMIES OF THE UNION IN THE NORTH- VI. PLOTTING EVERYWHERE-OBJECTS OF THE TRAITOROUS LEAGUE. TRAITOR KNIGHTS-ORGANIZATION OF REBEL SYMPATHIZERS IN INDIANA CHAPTER AND ILLINOIS-SIGNS AND SECRETS-GEN. ANDERSON'S TOUR OF VII. INVESTIGATION -THE GOLDEN CIRCLE. BATTLE OF PAGELAND-A VICTORY TURNED INTO A DEFEAT BY TREACHERY- CHAPTER DEATH OF GEN. LYON-ON THE TRAIL OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN VIII. CIRCLE. BATTLE OF ANTLER'S RUN-SERAINE WHITCOMB LEAVES FOR THE SOUTH- CHAPTER PLOTTING IN CANADA-DISCOVERY OF A CONSPIRACY AMONG ARMY IX. OFFICERS. CHAPTER BATTLE OF MURPHY'S HILL.-THE MOST SANGUINARY FIGHTING OF THE WAR.- X. -MURDER OF STEPHEN LYON.-UNCLE HAM GETS A STRONG DISLIKE TO WAR. THE COURT-MARTIAL.-AT MURPHY'S HILL.-THE TWO OPPOSING ARMIES AND CHAPTER THEIR MOVEMENTS.-JAMES WHITCOMB'S TRIAL.- SENTENCED TO DEATH XI. AND PARDONED BY THE PRESIDENT. MORGANSON'S RAID AND BATTLE OF CHEROKEE RUN.-THE REBEL CHAPTER CAVALRYMEN WHIRL THROUGH INDIANA AND OHIO.-BEATEN AND XII. CAPTURED.-KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE CONTINUE THEIR MACHINATIONS. GEN. SILENT GUIDED BY A SPECTER.-ARMY OF THE CENTER.- BELEAGUERED CHAPTER AND HALF STARVED IN CHATTERAUGUS.-MIDDLETON'S RIDGE.-GEN. SILENT'S XIII. FORCES SWEEP THE REBELS FROM THE CREST. SERAINE WHITCOMB'S EXAMINATION OF THE REBEL PRISONS AND HENRY CHAPTER LYON'S RELEASE.-MAN'S INHUMANITY.-SERAINE WHITCOMB VISITS THE XIV. SOUTHERN PRISON PENS.-A SAD TALE OF WOE.- GRAPHIC PICTURE OF SUFFERING, WRETCHEDNESS AND DEATH. PLOTS TO POISON AND BURN.-FIRE AND POISON.-THE PLOT TO BURN CHAPTER NORTHERN CITIES AND SPREAD DISEASE.-THE SCHEME AVENGED.-PART OF XV. THE CHIEF PLOTTERS BURNED BY THEIR OWN COMBUSTIBLES. A HAPPY WEDDING.-MARRIAGE OF SERAINE WHITCOMB AND HENRY LYON.- CHAPTER FIRE AND PLAGUE.-THE PLOTTING IN CANADA TO BURN CITIES AND SPREAD XVI. DISEASE. MOBS IN THE NORTH.-LAWLESS VIOLENCE AND OUTRAGE BY REBEL CHAPTER SYMPATHIZERS.-THE CLASH OF ARMS.-BATTLE OF THE CHAPARRAL XVII. BETWEEN GEN. SILENT AND GEN. LAWS. OPERATIONS OF THE ARMY OF THE CENTER.-GEN. SHERWOOD'S CAMPAIGN CHAPTER AGAINST GATE CITY.-HEAD'S ARMY DESTROYED.-GEN. PAPSON'S GREAT XVIII. VICTORIES AT FRANKTOWN AND NASHUA. CHAPTER XIX.THE SCHEME TO CAPTURE OR KILL THE PRESIDENT AND GEN. CHAPTER SILENT.-A VILLANOUS PLOT.-THE RECKLESS AND DESPERATE SCHEMES OF XIX. THE CONSPIRATORS.-THE PLAN REVEALED.-THE PRESIDENT AND GEN. SILENT WARNED OF THEIR DANGER. CHAPTER COLLAPSE OF THE GREAT REBELLION.-LAWS' ARMY SURRENDERS.- THE XX. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. SCHEME FOR A NEW REBELLION.-ANDREW JOHNSON AND HIS CO- CHAPTER CONSPIRATORS.-THE GENERAL OF THE ARMY AND SECRETARY OF WAR SAVE XXI. THE COUNTRY.-"TOM" ANDERSON'S BRUTAL MURDER.-UNCLE DANIEL DIES. ILLUSTRATIONS Uncle Daniel Telling his Story Tom and the Mob Death of Harvey Lyon The Charge of Col. Anderson's Regiment Pupils Attacking the Little Abolitionist Col. Anderson Wounded Uncle Daniel Meets Aunt Martha Ham Encounters the Rebels Knights of the Golden Circle Meeting in a Barn Drinking to the Success of Treason Henry Lyon is Captured Death of General Lyon General Anderson Taking Command Anderson Overhears the Conspiracy The Murder of Steven Lyon Morganson's Raid A Spector Appears to the General Seraine With Henry at Pine Forest Prison Jackson Starts for Europe The Burning of the Will-o-the-wisp Thomlinson and Friends in Consultation Marriage of Henry and Seraine Gens. Silent and Meador in Conversation A Scene in the Trenches Mrs. Lyon Dies at Peter's Coffin Uncle Daniel Conferring With Lincoln and Stanton The Shooting of President Lincoln by Wilkes Murderous Assault Upon Gen. Anderson and Family Death of Uncle Daniel THE STRUGGLE FOR MISSOURI By John Mcelroy CONTENTS THE STRUGGLE FOR MISSOURI. INDEX CHAPTER I A SALIENT BASTION FOR THE SLAVERY EMPIRE CHAPTER II THE WAR CLOUDS GATHER CHAPTER III NATHANIEL LYON'S ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE CHAPTER IV THE CAPTURE OF CAMP JACKSON CHAPTER V THE SCOTT-HARNEY AGREEMENT CHAPTER VI THE LAST WORD BEFORE THE BLOW CHAPTER VII GEN LYON BEGINS AN EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN CHAPTER VIII. STORM GATHERS IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI CHAPTER IX EVE OF THE BATTLE OF WILSON'S CREEK CHAPTER X BATTLE OF WILSON'S CREEK CHAPTER XI THE AFTERMATH OF WILSON'S CREEK CHAPTER XII A GALAXY OF NOTABLE MEN CHAPTER XIII FREMONT'S MARVELOUS INEFFECTIVENESS CHAPTER XIV THE SAD RETREAT FROM SPRINGFIELD CHAPTER XV GEN H.W. HALLECK IN COMMAND CHAPTER XVI HUNTER, LANE, MISSOURI AND KANSAS CHAPTER XVII PRICE DRIVEN OUT OF THE STATE CHAPTER XVIII GEN EARL VAN DORN TAKES COMMAND CHAPTER XIX THE VICTORY IS WON INDEX LLUSTRATIONS The Struggle for Missouri. General Francis P Blair The War Clouds Gather The Harney Mansion General Claiborne Jackson General Lyon General John C. Fremont The Scott-harney Agreement General Sterling Price General Franz Sigel General David Hunter The St Louis Levee The Storm Gathers Sigel Crossing the Osage General Henry W. Halleck Battlefield of Wilson's Creek Table of Union Casualties Table of Confederate Casualties Table General Samuel R. J. Curtis General Albert Pike Battle of Pea Ridge THE RED ACORN By John McElroy CONTENTS Preface Chapter I A Declaration Chapter II First Shots Chapter III A Race Chapter IV Disgrace Chapter V The Lint-scraping and Bandage-making Union Chapter VI The Awakening Chapter VII Pomp and Circumstances of Glorious War Chapter VIII The Tedium of Camp Chapter IX On the March Chapter X The Mountaineer's Revenge Chapter XI Through the Mountains and the Night Chapter XII Aunt Debby Brill Chapter XIII "An Apple Jack Raid.” Chapter XIV In the Hospital Chapter XV Making an Acquaintance with Duty Chapter XVI The Ambuscade Chapter XVII Alspaugh on a Bed of Pain Chapter XVIII Secret Service Chapter XIX The Battle of Stone River SI KLEGG His Transformation From a Raw Recruit To A Veteran. BOOK ONE OF SIX VOLUMES By John McElroy. CONTENTS PREFACE SI KLEGG GOING TO WAR—SI KLEGG'S COMPLETE EQUIPMENT CHAPTER I CHAPTER II THE DEADLY BAYONET CHAPTER III THE OLD CANTEEN CHAPTER IV THE AWFUL HARDTACK CHAPTER V FAT PORK—INDISPENSABLE BODY TIMBER FOR PATRIOTISM CHAPTER VI DETAILED AS COOK—SI FINDS RICE ANOTHER INNOCENT CHAPTER VII. IN THE AWKWARD SQUAD CHAPTER VIII ON COMPANY DRILL CHAPTER IX SI GETS A LETTER CHAPTER X. SI AND THE DOCTORS CHAPTER XI. THE PLAGUE OF THE SOLDIER CHAPTER XII A WET NIGHT CHAPTER XIII SI "STRAGGLED" CHAPTER XIV SI AND THE MULES CHAPTER XV UNDER FIRE—SI HAS A FIGHT, CAPTURES A PRISONER CHAPTER XVI ONE OF THE "NON-COMMISH" CHAPTER XVII FORAGING ON THE WAY CHAPTER XVIII A SUNDAY OFF CHAPTER XIX A CLOSE CALL CHAPTER XX "THE SWEET SABBATH" CHAPTER XXI SI AND SHORTY WERE RAPIDLY LEARNING CHAPTER XXII A NIGHT OF SONG ILLUSTRATIONS Title Page Frontispiece Si Decides to Enlist Off to the War As Si Looked when he Landed at Louisville Si's Load Begins to Get Heavy Si's Chum, "shorty" Elliott The Diverse Uses of the Good Old Canteen What the Bayonet Was Good for As Maria Pictured Si Using his Bayonet He Tries the Butt of his Gun on It The Best Way After All The Veteran Talks to Si Drawing Rations "All Right, Boss; Dats a Go" Si Falls out With his Food Si Thinks It over The Trouble Begins The Rice Gets the Bulge Si Makes the Acquaintance of The Guard House "Right Shoulder Shift—Arms!" "Fix—bayonets!" Brought his Gun Down on the Man's Foot Don't Care a Continental "Right—face!" "Forward—march!" "Company—right Wheel!" It's from Annabel Si Carries a Rail Si Writes to "deer Annie." An Army Writing-desk Laying the Foundation A Rude Awakening Visits the Doctor "Let Yer Nails Grow; Ye'll Need 'em" "Say, Cap, What Kind O' Bug is This?" "Skirmishing" "Naw! Lemme Show Ye How!" Struck by a Cyclone Supper Under Difficulties A Field Shanty It's the Morning Taking the Top Rail "Don't Stab Me." Hydropathic Treatment Si Defies a Regiment He Let Both Heels Fly Si Went Sprawling Stuck in the Mud It Burst With a Loud "bang." Si Takes a Crack at A Reb Si Captures a Johnny Corporal si Klegg One of the "Non-Com Mish." "Not 'less Ye Say 'Bunker Hill.'" They Had Shot a Mule The 200th Ind. Was Not Without Talent in Foraging Si Beat a Retreat Si Being Worked for a "good Thing." Si Was Disposed to Grumble Showing the Old Man a Trick Waiting for Their Clothes to Dry An Assault on the Well-filled Corn Crib Shorty Held the Calf Si Sprang Upon Him "Shorty if We—only Git—out O' This—" So Straight he Leaned Backward Si Almost Fainted when the Colonel Stopped Shorty Was There—with a Guard SI KLEGG THRU THE STONE RIVER CAMPAIGN AND IN WINTER QUARTERS AT MURFREESBORO. BOOK TWO OF SIX VOLUMES By John McElroy CONTENTS PREFACE SI KLEGG THROUGH MUD AND MIRE CHAPTER I CHAPTER II SECOND DAY'S MARCH CHAPTER III STILL ON THE MARCH CHAPTER IV THE SUNSHINE OF LIFE CHAPTER V LINING UP FOR BATTLE CHAPTER VI BATTLE OF STONE RIVER CHAPTER VII AFTER THE FIRST DAY CHAPTER VIII A GLOOMY NEW YEAR'S DAY CHAPTER IX VICTORY AT LAST CHAPTER X THE VICTORIOUS ARMY CHAPTER XI WINTER QUARTERS CHAPTER XII ADDING TO THEIR COMFORT CHAPTER XIII "HOOSIER'S REST" CHAPTER XIV DEACON KLEGG'S SURPRISE CHAPTER XV DEACON KLEGG'S ARRIVAL IS MISTAKEN CHAPTER XVI IN A NEW WORLD CHAPTER XVII THE DEACON'S INITIATION CHAPTER XVIII THE DEACON IS SHOCKED CHAPTER XIX THE DEACON IS TROUBLED CHAPTER XX THE DEACON BUTTS IN CHAPTER XXI THE PERPLEXED DEACON CHAPTER XXII TRYING TO EDUCATE ABRAHAM LINCOLN ILLUSTRATIONS The Aid Spatters Mud on si 18 Si Sat Down Hard 20 Stop Beatin' Them Mules' 22 Frozen in the Mud 29 What Do You See, Shorty?' 33 Si Reports to the Colonel 38 Preparing Supper 40 After the Mules Stampeded 44 The Adjutant Smiled on si and Shorty 49 The Prisoners 50 A Close Shave 62 Groundhog Fled 64 Earning Thirteen Dollars a Month 57 A Frightened Teamster 70 A Lucky Fall 81 Finding a Good Thing 85 Si's Challenge 90 A Disagreeable Awakening for Shorty and Si. 94 Si Klegg Fell Without a Groan 113 Shorty Thinks si Does Not Look Like a Ghost. 118 Shorty Retaliates. 126 The House Beautiful. 133 Solid Comfort. 135 "Am I a Soldier of the Cross?" 139 Shorty Confiscates the Caboose Door. 143 Si Defended the Plunder. 148 Si Floors the Wagonmaster. 154 A Stoutly-built, Farmer-looking Man Entered the Train 164 The Free Fight. 169 Mr. Klegg Ready for Action. 172 Deacon Klegg and the Knight of The Golden Circle. The General Interrupts the Game 184 Meeting Between si and his Father. 189 His Honor and the 'attorney' Bucked And Gagged. Shorty Admonishes the Orderly 198 The Deacon is Shocked. 210 Trying to Conquer the Deacon's Scruples. 212 'How Much'd You Give for This?' 216 Deacon Klegg Looks over the Larder. 220 Hit My Jug a Welt With his Sword 231 'Pulled out a Fat Roll of Greenbacks. 235 I'm Gwine Ter Kill Ye, Right Here 246 Do You Hear? Git on Your Mule at Onct.' "I'll Invite Your Attention to the Emancipation Proclamation 264 " The Deacon Gives Abe a Lesson in Wood Chopping 269 SI KLEGG SI AND SHORTY MEET MR. ROSENBAUM, THE SPY, WHO RELATES HIS ADVENTURES BOOK THREE OF SIX VOLUMES By John Mcelroy CONTENTS SI KLEGG PREFACE CHAPTER I OUT ON PICKET CHAPTER II ROSENBAUM, THE SPY CHAPTER III THE DEACON GOES HOME CHAPTER IV A SPY'S EXPERIENCES CHAPTER V THE BOYS GO SPYING CHAPTER VI LETTER FROM HOME CHAPTER VII CORN PONE AND BUTTERMILK CHAPTER VIII A PERIOD OF SELF-DISGUST CHAPTER IX SHORTY GETS A LETTER CHAPTER X TRADING WITH THE REBS CHAPTER XI SHORTY'S CORRESPONDENT CHAPTER XII THE BAN ON WET GOODS CHAPTER XIII THE JEW SPY WRITES CHAPTER XIV SHORTY HAS AN ADVENTURE WITH SI CHAPTER XV SHORTY NEARLY GOT MARRIED CHAPTER XVI AN UNEXPECTED MARRIAGE CHAPTER XVII GATHERING INFORMATION CHAPTER XVIII THE JEW SPY AGAIN ILLUSTRATIONS Si and Shorty As Mounted Infantry Mr. Klegg Enjoys Solid Comfort. 16 "surrender, There, You Dumbed Rebel." 21 Trying to Save his Neck. 30 "i Know You, Unt What You're Here For." 32 The Negroes Merrymaking. 39 Klegg Starts Home. 45 Shorty Settles With the Banker. 51 Close Call for Rosenbaum. 54 The Spy in Custody. 58 Rosenbaum Runs Into Sigel's Pickets. 66 Watching the House. 75 The Surprise 79 Undesirable Acquaintances. 100 The Spoils of War 105 An Uncomfortable Situation 107 Shorty and si Are at Outs. 110 Si and Shorty As Mounted Infantry 117 Bushrod Prays for his Life 119 The Duel. 139 The Overture for Trade. 144 Si Wants a Fight 147 Shorty Wants to Fight Groundhog 157 Shorty Reading the Letter 160 She Whipped out a Long Knife. 189 Take Your Arm from Around That Yank's Neck 203 Jeff Sat up and Rubbed Himself 208 Old Bragg Used to Walk up Unt Down, Growling Unt Cussing. 259 SI KLEGG EXPERIENCES OF SI AND SHORTY ON THE GREAT TULLAHOMA CAMPAIGN. BOOK FOUR OF SIX VOLUMES By John McElroy CONTENTS PREFACE SI KLEGG CHAPTER I THE TULLAHOMA CAMPAIGN ON TO DUCK RIVER CHAPTER II THE BALKY MULES CHAPTER III THIRD DAY OF THE DELUGE CHAPTER IV THE FOURTH DAY OF THE TULLAHOMA CAMPAIGN CHAPTER V AFLOAT ON A LOG CHAPTER VI DISTRESSING ENEMIES CHAPTER VII THE EXCITING ADVANCE TULLAHOMA CHAPTER VIII THE GLORIOUS FOURTH INDEPENDENCE DAY FUN CHAPTER IX A LITTLE EPISODE OVER LOVE LETTERS CHAPTER X. AFTER BRAGG AGAIN CHAPTER XI. THE MOUNTAIN FOLK CHAPTER XII. SI AND SHORTY IN LUCK CHAPTER XIII MANY HAPPY EVENTS CHAPTER XIV THE FRISKY YOUNGSTERS CHAPTER XV KEYED UP FOR ACTION CHAPTER XVI THE TERRIFIC STRUGGLE CHAPTER XVII IN THE HOSPITAL CHAPTER XVIII A DISTURBING MESSAGE CHAPTER XIX TEDIOUS CONVALESCENCE CHAPTER XX STEWED CHICKEN ILLUSTRATIONS During the Halt for Dinner. 20 'Don't Call Me Your Gran'pap.' 35 Here Goes, Mebbe to Libbey Prison. 55 I'm All on Fire 77 Si and Shorty Were the First to Mount The Parapet. 91 The Bluff Worked 107 She Ran Like a Deer, But si Cut Her off 123 You Must'nt Kill a Wounded Man 143 "Father, There's a Couple of Soldiers out There." 159 The First Wad Came out Easily and All Right. 165 'Annabel, How Purty You Look.' 173 The Recruits Lined up on the Platform. 186 They Posted the Men Behind The Trees. 197 They Had a Delirious Remembrance of the Mad Whirl. 211 The Dead Being Collected After the Battle. 220 "Pap, is That You?" Said a Weak Voice. 238 "He Took Another Look at his Heavy Revolver." 254 "If You Don't Skip out O' Here This Minute I'll Bust Your Head As I Would a Punkin." 264 SI KLEGG THE DEACON'S ADVENTURES AT CHATTANOOGA IN CARING FOR THE BOYS BOOK FIVE OF SIX VOLUMES