US Civil War
Loudoun County on the Potomac--John Brown's Raid--War Talk Among the Schoolboys--The Slave and His Master--Election of Lincoln--Secession --Schoolboys Preparing for the Coming Conflict--Firing on Fort Sumter--Union Army Crossing the Potomac.
After resting a while at Winchester Lee's army began its march leisurely back toward Richmond, and took up a position near Fredericksburg, a point about half way between Washing...
18. CHAPTER VII."But who shall break the guards that wait Before the awful face of Fate? The tattered standards of the South Were shrivelled at the cannon's mouth, And all her hopes were desola...
19. CHAPTER VIII.The army of Northern Virginia had met and defeated McDowell, McClellan, Pope, Burnside and Hooker, and caused the retirement of Meade, but the Government at Washington had at la...
17. CHAPTER VI.After resting awhile and mourning the loss of our great soldier, Lee's army began to move. The question was (not only on our side of the river, but on the other), "What is Gen....
20. CHAPTER IX."Down on the left of the Rebel lines, Where a breastwork stands on a copse of pines, Before the Rebels their ranks can form, The Yankees have carried the place by storm."
12. CHAPTER I.Is there a boy in all this wide land, North or South, who would not like to hear what a boy has to say of his experience as a private soldier in the Confederate Army from 1861 t...
21. CHAPTER X."There hangs a saber, and there a rein, With a rusty buckle and a green curb chain; A pair of spurs on the old grey wall, And a moldy saddle--well, that is all."
22. CHAPTER XI."Here lies the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there rolls not the breath of his pride. The foam of his gasping lies white on the turf, And as cold as the spray...
15. CHAPTER IV.A part of Pope's army, under Banks, had been pushed forward as far as Cedar Run, about half way between Manassas and Gordonsville. Jackson met this force and scattered it like c...
13. CHAPTER II.As the advance guard of the Federal army entered Alexandria, Va., on the south side of the Potomac, a Confederate flag was seen floating from the roof of a hotel kept by one Jac...
14. CHAPTER III.The fall and winter months following the battle of Bull Run were spent for the most part by both sides in recruiting their armies and getting ready for a desperate struggle, whi...
11. CHAPTER XI.7. CHAPTER VII.Both Armies Marching Back to the Rappahannock--Short Rest--Meade's Advance--Lee Retires to the Rapidan--Meade's Withdrawal From Lee's Front--Lee's Advance--Fighting Around Brand...
5. CHAPTER V.McClellan Relieved of His Command--Burnside Commands the Union Army--The Two Armies at Fredericksburg--The Blue Ridge Mountain--The Author a Prisoner--Battle of Fredericksburg--...
6. CHAPTER VI.Ninth of June at Brandy Station--Lee's Army En Route for Gettysburg--See Map--Stuart's March Around the Union Army--Lee Crosses the Potomac--The Union Army in a Parallel Line Wi...
4. CHAPTER IV.The Battle of Cedar Run--Jackson's Flank Movement--McClellan Moves His Army Back to Washington--Second Battle of Manassas--The Defeat of Pope--His Retreat to the Defenses of Was...
3. CHAPTER III.Long Rest--Each Side Recruiting Their Armies--McClellan in Command--His March on Richmond by the Way of the James River--Jackson's Brilliant Valley Campaign--The Battles Around...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Grant in Command of the Union Army--Preparation for the Coming Struggle--Battle of The Wilderness--Strength of the Armies--Losses --Wounding of General Longstreet--Battle at Spo...
9. CHAPTER IX.Battle of Cold Harbor--Grant Again Repulsed--Death of Flournoy--Grant Crossing the James--Prison Life at Point Lookout--Parole of the Sick From the Hospitals--The Dreary Winter-...
1. CHAPTER I.Loudoun County on the Potomac--John Brown's Raid--War Talk Among the Schoolboys--The Slave and His Master--Election of Lincoln--Secession --Schoolboys Preparing for the Coming C...
10. CHAPTER X.2. CHAPTER II.