LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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1.General Grant reprimanded by a Lieutenant[Frontispiece]
2.Rending the Flag[15]
3.A Bell-and-Everett Campaigner[16]
4.Southerners discussing the Situation[17]
5.A Lincoln Wide-Awake[20]
6.“Nayther av us”[21]
7.The Minute Man of ’61[23]
8.Sweet Little Men of ’61[27]
9.Adjutant Hinks notifying Captain Knott V. Martin[29]
10.Captain Martin’s Company on its way to Faneuil Hall[31]
11.A Drum[33]
12.A Dismounted Cavalryman[34]
13.A War Meeting[39]
14.A Bugle[42]
15.On the Lookout[43]
16.Mustering in Recruits[44]
17.Readville Barracks (from a photograph)[45]
18.Sibley Tents[46]
19.A, or Wedge Tents[48]
20.Spooning Together[49]
21.The Hospital or Wall Tent[50]
22.Officer’s Wall Tent with Fly[51]
23.The Dog or Shelter Tent[52]
24.Shelters as sometimes Pitched in Summer[53]
25.Shaded Shelters[54]
26.A Poncho on[55]
27.A Chimney on Fire[56]
28.A common Bomb Proof[57]
29.A 13-inch Mortar[58]
30.A Bomb Proof in Fort Hell before Petersburg, Va.[59]
31.A Sleeping Soldier[60]
32.Two of a Kind[61]
33.Sibley Tent—inside view[62]
34.Writing Home[63]
35.Stockaded A Tents[66]
36.Drafting[68]
37.The Camp Minstrels[70]
38.Our Silverware[72]
39.Building a Log Hut[73]
40.Inside View of a Log Hut[75]
41.Army Candlesticks[77]
42.Pediculus Vestimenti[80]
43.(K)nitting Work[81]
44.“Turning Him Over”[82]
45.Boiling Them[83]
46.A Wood-Tick[83]
47.Cleaning Up[84]
48.A Housewife[86]
49.The Camp Barber[88]
50.The Musket on Hooks[89]
51.“Beating It”[90]
52.The Jonah Spilling Pea-Soup[92]
53.The Camp Fire before the Jonah Appears[93]
54.The Camp Fire after the Jonah Appears[94]
55.The Unlucky Man[95]
56.Going after Water[96]
57.The Rheumatic Dodge[100]
58.Water for the Cook-House[101]
59.The High-tempered Man[104]
60.The Paper-collar Young Man[105]
61.The Mourners[106]
62.“Hurrah without the H”[107]
63.Off for the War[108]
64.The Cooper Shop, Philadelphia[109]
65.The Union Volunteer Saloon, Philadelphia[111]
66.A Brigade Commissary at Brandy Station, Va.[113]
67.A Hardtack—full size[114]
68.A Box of Hardtack[116]
69.Frying Hardtack[117]
70.An Army Oven[120]
71.Soft-Bread, Commissary Department Headquarters, Army of Potomac[121]
72.Apportioning Coffee and Sugar[122]
73.The Milk Ration[125]
74.The Company Cook[126]
75.Going into Camp[127]
76.Broiling Steaks[133]
77.Mess-kettles and Mess-pans[136]
78.A Coffee-cooler[142]
79.A Ball and Chain Victim[143]
80.Carrying a Log[144]
81.Bucked and Gagged[146]
82.Posted[147]
83.A Loaded Knapsack[148]
84.Isolated on a Platform[148]
85.On the Spare Wheel[149]
86.On a Wooden Horse[150]
87.In the Sweat-box[151]
88.On the Chines[152]
89.A Wooden Overcoat[153]
90.Strapped to a Stick[154]
91.Drumming out of Camp[155]
92.Tied Up by the Thumbs[156]
93.A Plan of the Troops at an Execution[158]
94.Death of a Deserter[159]
95.Digging a Sink[163]
96.Waiting for Headquarters[164]
97.A Canteen Wash[166]
98.Fall in for Roll-call[167]
99.At the Grain Pile[170]
100.“Fall in for your Quinine”[175]
101.The Picket-Rope[176]
102.Going to Water[188]
103.Stockaded Sibley Tents[192]
104.Taps[197]
105.A Raw Recruit[198]
106.A Wood Detail[203]
107.Recruits in Uniform[205]
108.A Spare Man with Spare Horses[207]
109.Drilling the Awkward Squad[208]
110.Drafted[215]
111.Indifferent to Consequences[216]
112.Opening a Box from Home[217]
113.A Wagon-load of Boxes[220]
114.We Drank from the same Canteen[223]
115.A Sutler’s Tent (from a war-time photograph)[225]
116.Cooking Pancakes[226]
117.Serving out Rations at the Cook’s Shanty[228]
118.Departed Joys[230]
119.Vis-a-vis[231]
120.A Discovery, Act I.[233]
121.A Discovery, Act II.[233]
122.Going to Army Headquarters[236]
123.A Corn-Barn and Hayrick[238]
124.Tobacco Drying-Houses[239]
125.Scene at a Wayside Farm-House[243]
126.No Joke[246]
127.The Turkey He Didn’t Catch[247]
128.A Dilemma[248]
129.The Soldier’s Friends[249]
130.Logan’s Corps Badge[250]
131.A Color-plate of Corps Badges, opposite[258]
132.St. Andrew’s Cross[259]
133.A Color-plate of Corps Badges, opposite[260]
134.An original Ninth Corps Badge[261]
135.Eleventh and Twelfth Corps Badges combined[261]
136.A Color-plate of Corps Badges, opposite[262]
137.First and Fifth Corps Badges combined[263]
138.A Color-plate of Corps Badges, opposite[264]
139.A Color-plate of Corps Badges, opposite[266]
140.A Torpedo[269]
141.A Gunboat[271]
142.A Mortar Boat[272]
143.A Double-turreted Monitor[273]
144.A Havelock[276]
145.A Haversack and Dipper[276]
146.A Zouave[277]
147.A Breech-Loader[278]
148.A Long-eared Patriot[279]
149.A Six-Mule Team[280]
150.A Mule Eating an Overcoat[281]
151.A Corral[283]
152.Dismounted[284]
153.Oats for Six[285]
154.Dumped into the Potomac[288]
155.The Rear-Guard of the Regiment[290]
156.Mules Loaded with Ammunition[292]
157.“But the noblest thing that perished there was that old Army Mule”[294]
158.Charge of the Mule Brigade[295]
159.Loose[297]
160.A Cot in the Hospital[298]
161.A Two-wheeled Ambulance[302]
162.A Four-wheeled Ambulance[305]
163.A Medicine Wagon[307]
164.A Folding Litter[309]
165.A Stretcher[309]
166.Placing a Wounded Man on a Stretcher[311]
167.Carrying a Wounded Man to the Rear[312]
168.Trying on Clothing[316]
169.In Heavy Marching Order[318]
170.Leading the Herd[322]
171.The Last Steer[323]
172.General Hancock at Ream’s Station[325]
173.Real Horse Sense[328]
174.A Buzzard’s Paradise[329]
175.Striking Camp[330]
176.Packing Up[332]
177.Waiting for Marching Orders[335]
178.Color-plate of Second Corps Flags, opposite[340]
179.A Footsore Straggler[343]
180.“Headquarters” in Trouble[345]
181.The Flankers[347]
182.A Halt of the Column[348]
183.A Wagon Park[350]
184.A Mule-Driver[352]
185.Wagon Train on a Pontoon Bridge[359]
186.Commissary Depot at Cedar Level[365]
187.A Mule-team under Fire[367]
188.The Bull Train[369]
189.General Meade and the Quartermaster[373]
190.Old Cronies[376]
191.Present Badge of Engineer and Pontonier Corps[377]
192.Corduroying[378]
193.A Trestle Bridge, No. 1[379]
194.A Trestle Bridge, No. 2[380]
195.A Large Gabion[381]
196.Fascines[381]
197.Chevaux-de-frise[381]
198.Abatis[382]
199.The Fraise[382]
200.A Canvas Pontoon Boat[384]
201.An Angle of Fort Hell[385]
202.A Wooden Pontoon[387]
203.A Pontoon Bridge at Belle Plain, Va.[389]
204.Poplar Grove Church[392]
205.Bridging the Rappahannock under Fire[393]
206.Signalling[394]
207.A Flagman, Plate 1[396]
208.A Flagman, Plate 2[397]
209.A Flagman, Plate 3[397]
210.A Signal Tree-Top[402]
211.A Signal Tower, before Petersburg, Va.[403]

HARD TACK AND COFFEE.

CHAPTER I.
THE TOCSIN OF WAR.

A score of millions hear the cry

And herald it abroad,

To arms they fly to do or die

For liberty and God.

E. P. Dyer.