Portrait of the Soldier-author[Frontispiece]
Birth-place of Willard Glazier[26]
The First Battle[32]
Race with the Schoolmaster[44]
Tragic Experience with an Ox-Team[80]
The Young Trapper of the Oswegatchie[90]
Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary[102]
Old State Normal School[110]
A Cavalry Column on the March[118]
Night Attack on Falmouth Heights[126]
Federal Canteens for Confederate Tobacco[130]
Burial of Captain Walters at Midnight, during Pope's retreat[134]
Sergeant Glazier at Aldie[146]
Lieutenant Glazier at Brandy Station[156]
Cavalry Fight at New Baltimore—Lieutenant Glazier taken Prisoner[160]
Libby Prison[166]
The Hole in the Floor[192]
Tunneling—the Narrow Path To Freedom[198]
Charleston Jail—Charleston, South Carolina[206]
The Escape From Columbia—Crossing the Dead-Line[216]
The Escape—Fed by Negroes in a Swamp[220]
The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties[224]
Uncle Zeb's Prayer[232]
The Escape—Crossing the Savannah at Midnight[246]
A Mutual Surprise[258]
Recaptured by a Confederate Outpost[266]
The Escape and Pursuit[270]
The Escape From Sylvania, Georgia—Running the Guard[276]
Interview With Joel Munsell[306]
Cavalry Foraging-Party Returning To Camp[312]
A Cavalry Bivouac[319]
Battle of Gettysburg[332]
Captain Glazier at Tremont Temple—Boston[364]
Boston to Brighton—First Day of The Journey[376]
A Night among Wolves[406]
Captured by Indians, near Skull Rocks, Wyoming[412]
Pursued by Arrapahoes[418]
Riding into the Pacific, near the Cliff House—San Francisco[428]
Map of the Headwaters of the Mississippi[437]
Captain Glazier Embarking for the Headwaters of the Mississippi[454]
Camp Among the Pines[458]
Making a Portage[462]
Map of Lake Glazier[464]
Lake Glazier—Source of the Mississippi[468]
Running Rapids on the Upper Mississippi[478]

SWORD AND PEN.

CHAPTER I.
ORIGIN OF THE GLAZIER FAMILY.

Lineage of Willard Glazier. — A good stock. — Oliver Glazier at the Battle of Bunker Hill. — The home of honest industry. — The Coronet of Pembroke. — The "Homestead Farm." — Mehitable Bolton. — Her New England home. — Her marriage to Ward Glazier. — The wild "North Woods." — The mother of the soldier-author.

Willard Glazier comes of the mixed blood of Saxon and of Celt. We first hear of his ancestors upon this side of the Atlantic at that period of our nation's history which intervened between the speck of war at Lexington and the cloud of war at Bunker Hill.

Massachusetts and the town of Boston had become marked objects of the displeasure of the British Parliament. Later, in 1775, Ethan Allen had startled Captain Delaplace by presenting his lank figure at the captain's bedside and demanding the surrender of Ticonderoga in the name of the "Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress." In the language of Daniel Webster, "A spirit pervaded all ranks, not transient, not boisterous, but deep, solemn, determined."

War on their own soil and at their own doors was indeed a strange work to the yeomanry of New England; but their consciences were convinced of its necessity, and when their country called them to her defense they did not withhold themselves from the perilous responsibility.

The statement of Quincy seemed to pervade all hearts. Said that distinguished son of genius and patriotism, "Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a halter intimidate; for, under God, we are determined that, wheresoever, whensoever, and howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men."