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Title: Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,
and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

Author: George Alfred Townsend

Release Date: November 5, 2007 [EBook #23340]

Language: English

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CAMPAIGNS

OF

A NON-COMBATANT,

AND HIS

ROMAUNT ABROAD DURING THE WAR.

BY
GEO. ALFRED TOWNSEND.

NEW YORK:
BLELOCK & COMPANY,
19 BEEKMAN STREET,
1866.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1866, by

GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.

SCRYMGEOUR, WHITCOMB & CO.,

Stereotypers,

15 WATER STREET, BOSTON.

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TO

"Miles O'Reilly,"

Who saw the war as vividly as he sang it; and whose aims for the peace
that has ensued, are even nobler than the noble influence he exerted
during the struggle, these chapters of travel are inscribed by his
friend and colleague.

PREFACE.

In the early part of 1863, while I was resident in London,--the first of
the War Correspondents to go abroad,--I wrote, at the request of Mr.
George Smith, publisher of the Cornhill Magazine, a series of chapters
upon the Rebellion, thus introduced:--

"Few wars have been so well chronicled, as that now desolating
America. Its official narratives have been copious; the great
newspapers of the land have been represented in all its campaigns;
private enterprise has classified and illustrated its several
events, and delegates of foreign countries have been allowed to
mingle freely with its soldiery, and to observe and describe its
batt