CHAPTER I.

More than He Bargained for—The War Fever and How it Affected the Boys—A Disbanded Cavalryman—Going to School in Uniform—Cousin Tom from Shiloh?—Running Away to Enlist—The Draft—In the Griswold Cavalry—Habeas Corf used.

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N the local columns of the Troy (N. Y.) Daily Times of September 1, 1863, the following news: