FROM FLAG TO FLAG

A WOMAN’S ADVENTURES AND EXPERIENCES IN THE SOUTH DURING THE WAR, IN MEXICO AND IN CUBA

BY
ELIZA McHATTON-RIPLEY

“Faith! I ran when I saw others run.”—I Henry IV.

“See here, my friends and loving countrymen;
This token serveth for a flag of truce
Betwixt ourselves.”—I Henry IV.

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1889

NOTE.

The years covered by this narrative were full of stirring interest. Civil war in the United States put the nation under arms from the St. Lawrence to the Rio Grande, and shattered the entire social and political fabric of the South. Mexico was conquered by the French, who, in time, were driven from the country, and the improbability of any European power obtaining a foothold there forever settled. A large portion of the Island of Cuba was for years under the control of the insurgents; and, not until a sea of blood and millions of treasure had been poured out, was a semblance of peace secured.