ver the last field of
battle, and a generation has grown up to which they are but a tradition.
J. M.

Contents.

Chapter I.--A Declaration, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 9
Chapter II.--First Shots, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 18
Chapter III.--A Race, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 28
Chapter IV.--Disgrace, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 38
Chapter V.--The Lint-Scraping and Bandage-making Union, - - - 52
Chapter VI.--The Awakening, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 62
Chapter VII.--Pomp and Circumstance of Glorious War, - - - - 71
Chapter VIII.--The Tedium of Camp, - - - - - - - - - - - - - 85
Chapter IX.--On the March, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 92
Chapter X.--The Mountaineer's Revenge, - - - - - - - - - - - 112
Chapter XI.--Through the Mountain and the Night, - - - - - - 126
Chapter XII.--Aunt Debby Brill, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 141
Chapter XIII.--An Apple Jack Raid, - - - - - - - - - - - - - 160
Chapter XIV.--In the Hospital, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 175
Chapter XV.--Making Acquaintance with Duty, - - - - - - - - - 184
Chapter XVI.--The Ambuscade, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 204
Chapter XVII.--Alspaugh on a Bed of Pain, - - - - - - - - - - 230
Chapter XVIII.--Secret Service, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 252
Chapter XIX.--The Battle of Stone River, - - - - - - - - - - 279

Chapter I. A Declaration.

"O, what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries the Earth if it be in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays."
--Lowell.

Of all human teachers they were the grandest who gave us the New
Testament, and made it a textbook for Man in every age. Transcendent
benefactors of the race, they opened in it a never-failing well-spring
of the sweet waters of Consolation and Hope, which have flowed over,
fertilized, and made blossom as a rose the twenty-century wide desert of
the ills of human existence.

But they were not poets, as most of the authors of the Old Testament
were.

They were too much in earnest in their great work of carrying the glad
evangel of Redemption to all the earth--they so burned with eagerness to
pour their joyful tidings into every ear, that they recked little of the
FORM in which the saving intelligence was conveyed.

Had they been poets would they have conceived He