L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, The religious sentiment in the army., page 397

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Table of Contents:

List of illustrations.

Moore and Blue, the Kansas scouts.

A nameless spy.

The prayer of the wicked.

A female scout and spy.

Keller or Killdare , one of the scouts of the Army of the Cumberland .

A daring scout and spy.

Scouting in East Tennessee .

Part 2 : daring enterprises of officers and men.

The great railroad chase.

Zagonyi 's charge.

The passage of the Port Hudson batteries.

Running the batteries at Vicksburg .

The cavalry fight at Brandy station .

The capture of Mission Ridge .

Sheridan at Middletown .

Narrative of Captain John F. Porter , Jr. , Fourteenth New York cavalry -particulars of his escape.

How the prisoners escaped prom the Richmond jail-incredible underground work-friendship of Virginia negroes.

The romance of war.

The death of John , the West Virginia blacksmith.

Robinson , the wounded soldier.

Rachel Somers , the noble mother.

The soldiers' guardian angel.

A heroine and martyr.

The farmer's contribution to the Chicago sanitary fair.

The Vicksburg Scow: a ballad.

Miss Melvina Stevens , the East Tennessee heroine.

Rallying a flying brigade.

Night scene in a hospital.

How the soldiers took their ease in their inn.

Incidents of Grierson 's raid.

The pen mightier than the sword.

Adventure of a spy.

General Pope and the assistant secretary of war .

The religious sentiment in the army.

Parson Brownlow 's daughter and the rebel soldiers.

General Banks and the military speculator.

A woman's pluck and patriotism.

Giving for the wounded soldiers.

Morgan 's men and the secessionists.

The horse marine's story.

The contrabands in the war.

A good use of Roman candles.

Trying to persuade Mr. Greeley to enlist.

Hetty McEwen , an incident of the occupation of Nashville .

General Sumner at Fair Oaks .

Old Bradley, the Tennessee blacksmith.

Driving home the cows.

The loyalty of a Charleston woman.

The ballad of Ishmael day.

Old Burns, the hero of Gettysburg .

Conduct of the colored troops.

General Ransom , in the assault on Vicksburg .

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[397] asleep, he took down his Bible, and passed the whole remainder of the night on his knees in prayer. The assault was not renewed; but a short time after, in an act of heroic daring, he ran his vessel under the very guns of Wagner, and was killed by a bolt shot through his pilot-house. To my mind he remains forever in the prayerful attitude in which I saw him on that triste noche,

A statue solid set,
And moulded in colossal calm.

Thayer and Eldridge, 1866.

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