Charles C. Nott

CONTENTS. PAGE I. The Hospital , 9 II. Donelson , 20 III.

PREFACE.

SKETCHES OF THE WAR.

I. THE HOSPITAL.

II. DONELSON.

III. THE ASSAULT.

IV. FORAGING.

V. A FLAG OF TRUCE.

VI. THE HOLLY FORK.

VII. SCOUTING.

VIII. A SURPRISE.

IX. THE ESCAPE.

X. THE LAST SCOUT.

APPENDIX.

Transcriber's Note:

Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.

SKETCHES OF THE WAR:

A SERIES OF

Letters to the North Moore Street School

OF NEW YORK.

BY

CHARLES C. NOTT,

CAPTAIN IN THE FIFTH IOWA CAVALRY AND TRUSTEE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE
CITY OF NEW YORK.

THIRD EDITION.

NEW-YORK:
ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH,
770 BROADWAY, CORNER OF 9TH ST.
—
1865.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by

CHARLES C. NOTT.

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

To

WILLIAM B. EAGER, Jr.,

AN UNWAVERING FRIEND AND FAITHFUL SCHOOL OFFICER,

THESE SKETCHES ARE INSCRIBED.