Observations of an Illinois Boy in Battle, Camp and Prisons

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
Beginning of the Great Rebellion, April 12, 1861,	15
CHAPTER II.
Beginning of Three-year Service—Camp Butler and Bird’s Point—Night Trip to Belmont—A Reconnaissance into Western Kentucky,	23
CHAPTER III.
New Madrid, Point Pleasant, and Island No. 10,	39
CHAPTER IV.
Up the Rivers to Hamburg Landing, and Thence by Land to Corinth and Cortland, Ala.,	47
CHAPTER V.
From Northern Alabama to Nashville, Tenn., and Its Occupation by Us—Fight at Lavergne and Many Skirmishes,	55
CHAPTER VI.
The Advance on Murfreesboro—Battle of Stone River—Occupation of Murfreesboro by the Federals—Cripple Creek and Tullahoma Campaign—Advance on Chattanooga and Chickamauga—Stuck in the Mud—Orders to Prevent Foraging,	65
CHAPTER VII.
Battle of Chickamauga—Two Days of Fearful Fighting—The Federals Holding Chattanooga,	93
CHAPTER VIII.
My Capture by the Confederates—Good-bye to My Faithful Horse—Introduction to Confederate Diet—Packed in Box Cars During a Journey of About Nine Hundred Miles—Fearful Suffering,	119
CHAPTER IX.
Entrance into Belle Island Prison Pen—Discouraging Outlook—Libby Prison, and the Smith Prison,	137
CHAPTER X.
Our Return to Danville—Many Sick with Smallpox—Smallpox Hospital, and Convalescent Camp,	155
CHAPTER XI.
Escape from Prison—Much Suffering—A Number of Narrow Escapes from Recapture and Finally Taken In,	163
CHAPTER XII.
Our Recapture and Return to Prison—Four Days in County Jail Behind the Bars—Journey to Richmond, and Pemberton Building,	189
CHAPTER XIII.
My Second Entrance into Belle Island Prison Pen—Intense Suffering from Cold and Hunger—Many Die,	199
CHAPTER XIV.
Under the Protection of “Old Glory” Once More—Caught in a Terrific Gale and Nearly Shipwrecked—Land at Annapolis, Md.—Stripped, Scoured, and Dressed in New Uniforms,	221
CHAPTER XV.
My Return to My Company and Regiment, May 25, 1864,	233
CHAPTER XVI.
Reminiscences of George W. Westgate,	245
CHAPTER XVII.
Letter from Calvin W. Hudson—His Escape, Recapture, and Escape the Second Time,	249
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Consequences of War,	255
CHAPTER XIX.
A Chapter to the Boys and Girls,	263
CHAPTER XX.
Birth of “Old Glory,”	271
CHAPTER XXI.
The Consequences of Secession,	273
CHAPTER XXII.
A Talk with the Comrades,	281

Then.

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