Four Years a Scout and Spy "General Bunker", One of Lieut. General Grant's Most Daring and Successful Scouts, Being a Narrative of ... the Experience of Corporal Ruggles During Four Years' Service as a Scout and Spy for the Federal Army

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Sent to find the enemy's pickets--Suspicious circumstance--Sick child--Captures three citizens standing picket--Releases them-- Falls asleep--Perilous situation--Fortunate turn of affairs-- Attack on the pickets--A very pious man--He proves a rebel spy 85