CONTENTS
[ Preface ]
[ Chapter I. ]A Declaration
[ Chapter II. ]First Shots
[ Chapter III. ]A Race
[ Chapter IV. ]Disgrace
[ Chapter V. ]The Lint-scraping and Bandage-making Union
[ Chapter VI. ]The Awakening
[ Chapter VII. ]Pomp and Circumstances of Glorious War
[ Chapter VIII. ]The Tedium of Camp
[ Chapter IX. ]On the March
[ Chapter X. ]The Mountaineer's Revenge
[ Chapter XI. ]Through the Mountains and the Night
[ Chapter XII. ]Aunt Debby Brill
[ Chapter XIII. ]"An Apple Jack Raid.”
[ Chapter XIV. ]In the Hospital
[ Chapter XV. ]Making an Acquaintance with Duty
[ Chapter XVI. ]The Ambuscade
[ Chapter XVII. ]Alspaugh on a Bed of Pain
[ Chapter XVIII. ]Secret Service
[ Chapter XIX. ]The Battle of Stone River
Chapter I. A Declaration.
“O, what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries the Earth if it be in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays.”
—Lowell.
Of all human teachers they were the grandest who gave us the New Testament, and made it a textbook for Man in every age. Transcendent benefactors of the race, they opened in it a never-failing well-spring of the sweet waters of Consolation and Hope, which have flowed over, fertilized, and made blossom as a rose the twenty-century wide desert of the ills of human existence.