CHAPTER X.

BATTLES OF LEESBURG, BELMONT, AND SHILOH.

Rebel Cruelty to Prisoners--The Fratricide--Grant Defeated-- Saved by Gunboats--Buell's Advance--Railroad Disaster--The South Despondent--General Rosecrans--Secession will become Odious even in the South--Poem 282--296

THE IRON FURNACE; OR SLAVERY AND SECESSION.