LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[Luther W. Hopkins],
[Gen. Joseph E. Johnston],
[Jefferson C. Davis],
[Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson (called "Stonewall Jackson")],
[Robert Howard Hopkins],
[The Last Meeting of Lee and Jackson at Chancellorsville],
[Gen. Robert E. Lee],
[Mrs. R.E. Lee],
[Gen. Fitzhugh Lee],
[A Battle-Scarred Confederate Banner],
[Gen. A.P. Hill],
[One of Stonewall Jackson's Mileposts],
[Bishop Alpheus W. Wilson],
From Bull Run to Appomattox
A BOY'S VIEW
Chapter I.
From Harper's Ferry to Bull Run.
"O war, thou hast thy fierce delight,
Thy gleams of joy intensely bright;
Such gleams as from thy polished shield
Fly dazzling o'er the battle-field."
Is there a boy in all this wide land, North or South, who would not like to hear what a boy has to say of his experience as a private soldier in the Confederate Army from 1861 to 1865, serving for the most part in Stuart's Cavalry of Lee's army? Men have told their story, and graphically told it from a man's standpoint. But who has spoken for the boy? Who has told of the part the boy played in that great drama that was on the stage for four years without intermission? That bloody drama in which there were 3,000,000 players—a play that cost the country eight billions in money and half a million human lives?