Excerpts from the Book 'Adventures And Reminiscences Of A Volunteer':

... inspired us with new ambition. The fences and barn received a coat of whitewash, the stones were picked out of the road in front of the house, the wood-pile ...
... in an instant, in spite of my dirty appearance, she sprang from the coach right into my arms my brothers struggled to take her from me, but she tightened ...
... give you your choice and a good trade. Martha-Ann, he called, Martha-Ann.. In a moment a little, bright, bustling old woman came to the door and ...
... me all they could-father by furnishing me with money, and step-sister by putting up little lunches for my pilgrimages during the night. They thought ...
... a guiding star and a compass that ever guided me away from the shoals and quicksands. She was an angel companion to me all through the trials and hardships ...
... told him I had reported and wanted a bed. The colonel said, Is that all you want. Corporal, put this man in the guard-house. He did. That was ...
... to an understanding of what it all meant, for we could now hear the musketry very plain, and could even see the rebels on the banks of the river. ...
... asked him if he knew where my brother was-Charley Ulmer. Oh, yes, he said, and pointing to a little group of men, who were round a wee bit of a fire ...
... would halt me, but not often. They didn't know what I was, and they didn't care. All the afternoon we marched. Our route was along the railroad, the ...
... the war was over, it was so still. I thought every one had been killed on both sides, excepting myself. I was just thinking I would try and find ...
... of the 18th corps, commanded by Major General Baldy Smith. We soon met the enemy's pickets in front of Petersburg. They fled before that long, ...
... bust right in the center of my company. I thought I saw legs and arms flying in all directions. I started on the dead run for the rear. I believed I ...
... a Whoa, thar, loud enough to be heard in Petersburg, I-I thought I'd drive back and dig up that darned shell. It'll be a great curiosity. When ...
... of an unexploded shell and used this on the stake, but it was heavy and unwieldy. I wonder if this was fired by those d-d rebs, he asked. I guess ...
... and both hands taken completely off, as if done by a surgeon's saw. I was excited and horror stricken for a moment. The sight was horrible, but I ...
... to hand it back to him, when a shell burst a short way from us, which frightened his horse so that he cramped the wagon and upset it, and in the confusion ...
... the leaves over till I found a little white ribbon pinned to a leaf, marking the verse beginning, Suffer little children to come unto me. I started ...
... from the slime left by the ebbing tide, he lost his footing, his heels went into the air, and down again headfirst he went into the ocean. I think ...
... push him in again. I then made up my mind I had better run, but I was so convulsed with laughter that I couldn't move. Hurriedly but cautiously climbing ...
... Antoine, v. 1.-[v. 6] The sin of Monsieur Antoine, v. 2 and Leone Leoni.-[v. 7] The Piccinino, v. 1.-[v. 8] The Piccino, v. 2, and The last of ...