CONTENTS
[ PREFACE ]
[ SI KLEGG ]
[ CHAPTER I. ]THE TULLAHOMA CAMPAIGN ON TO DUCK RIVER
[ CHAPTER II. ]THE BALKY MULES
[ CHAPTER III. ]THIRD DAY OF THE DELUGE
[ CHAPTER IV. ]THE FOURTH DAY OF THE TULLAHOMA CAMPAIGN
[ CHAPTER V. ]AFLOAT ON A LOG
[ CHAPTER VI. ]DISTRESSING ENEMIES
[ CHAPTER VII. ]THE EXCITING ADVANCE TULLAHOMA
[ CHAPTER VIII. ]THE GLORIOUS FOURTH INDEPENDENCE DAY FUN
[ CHAPTER IX. ]A LITTLE EPISODE OVER LOVE LETTERS
[ CHAPTER X. ]AFTER BRAGG AGAIN
[ CHAPTER XI. ]THE MOUNTAIN FOLK
[ CHAPTER XII. ]SI AND SHORTY IN LUCK
[ CHAPTER XIII. ]MANY HAPPY EVENTS
[ CHAPTER XIV. ]THE FRISKY YOUNGSTERS
[ CHAPTER XV. ]KEYED UP FOR ACTION
[ CHAPTER XVI. ]THE TERRIFIC STRUGGLE
[ CHAPTER XVII. ]IN THE HOSPITAL
[ CHAPTER XVIII. ]A DISTURBING MESSAGE
[ CHAPTER XIX. ]TEDIOUS CONVALESCENCE
[ CHAPTER XX. ]STEWED CHICKEN
List of Illustrations
[ During the Halt for Dinner. 20 ]
[ 'Don't Call Me Your Gran'pap.' 35 ]
[ Here Goes, Mebbe to Libbey Prison. 55 ]
[ Si and Shorty Were the First to Mount The Parapet. 91 ]
[ She Ran Like a Deer, But si Cut Her off 123 ]
[ You Must'nt Kill a Wounded Man 143 ]
[ "Father, There's a Couple of Soldiers out There." 159 ]
[ The First Wad Came out Easily and All Right. 165 ]
[ 'Annabel, How Purty You Look.' 173 ]
[ The Recruits Lined up on the Platform. 186 ]
[ They Posted the Men Behind The Trees. 197 ]
[ They Had a Delirious Remembrance of the Mad Whirl. 211 ]
[ The Dead Being Collected After the Battle. 220 ]
[ "Pap, is That You?" Said a Weak Voice. 238 ]
[ "He Took Another Look at his Heavy Revolver." 254 ]
[ "If You Don't Skip out O' Here This Minute I'll Bust Your Head As I Would a Punkin." 264 ]
PREFACE
"Si Klegg, of the 200th Ind., and Shorty, his Partner," were born years ago in the brain of John McElroy, Editor of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
These sketches are the original ones published in THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, revised and enlarged some what by the author. How true they are to nature every veteran can abundantly testify from his own service. Really, only the name of the regiment was invented. There is no doubt that there were several men of the name of Josiah Klegg in the Union Army, and who did valiant service for the Govern ment. They had experiences akin to, if not identical with, those narrated here, and substantially every man who faithfully and bravely carried a musket in defense of the best Government on earth had some times, if not often, experiences of which those of Si Klegg are a strong reminder.
THE PUBLISHERS.