WITH FIRE AND SWORD

My enlistment in the Union Army—The "Bushwhackers"of Missouri—The Quantrells and theJames Brothers—Cutting a man's head off—Myfirst adventure in the war—Capturing a guerrilla.

We leave Missouri and go South—The prisoners ofDonelson—The taking of New Madrid—"Kindlybury this unfortunate officer"—Quaker guns atShiloh—The killing of the colonel.

Iuka, the fiercest battle of the war, 217 men out of482 of my regiment are shot—The awful rebelcharge at Corinth—Moonlight on the battlefield—Bushelsof arms and legs—Tombstones for fireplaces—Oneof Grant's mistakes

An unlucky campaign led by General Grant—HollySprings burned up—The first foragers—Some modernFalstaffs—Counting dead men.

The laughable campaign of the war—An army floatingamong the tree tops of the Yazoo Pass.