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  THE BLUE AND THE GRAY

  OR,

  THE CIVIL WAR

  AS SEEN BY A BOY

  A Story of Patriotism and Adventure in Our War for the Union

  By A. R. White

  With Over 150 War Photographs And Original Drawings

  Illustrated by Frank Beard

  `"We live for freedom; let us clasp each other by the hand;

  `In love and unity abide, a firm, unbroken band;

  `We cannot live divided--the Union is secure!

  `God grant that while men live and love, this nation may endure."

  --DR. FRED A. PALMER,

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  1898

  BY

  K. T. BOLAND.

  TO THE SONS AND THE DAUGHTERS OF THE VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR;

  TO THOSE WHO FOUGHT ITS BATTLES AND LIVED TO INSTIL ITS LESSONS OFPATRIOTISM IN THE HEARTS OF THEIR CHILDREN; TO THOSE OF ALL CLIMES WHOLOVE LIBERTY AND THE NOBLE LAND WHERE FREEDOM HAD HER BIRTH; TO THEMEMORY OF THE HEROES OF NORTH AND SOUTH WHO FELL IN battle; TO ONEUNITED COUNTRY,

  BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH, FOREVER ONE IN ALL NOBLE AND LOFTY PURPOSES ANDAIMS; TO THE HOMES OF AMERICA; THIS BOOK IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED BY YOURSSINCERELY

  THE AUTHOR.

  CALEB B. SMITH, Secretary of Interior.

  EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.

  GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of Navy.

  WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

  EDWARD BATES, Attorney-General.

  SIMON P. CHASE, Secretary of Treasury.

  MONTGOMERY BLAIR, Postmaster-General.

  JUDAH P. BENJAMIN, Attorney-General, War, State.

  ROBERT TOOMBS, Secretary of State.

  LEROY P. WALKER, Secretary of War.

  STEPHEN R. MALLORY, Secretary of the Navy.

  CHRISTOPHER G. MEMMINGER. Secretary of Treasury.

  JOHN H. REAGAN, Postmaster-General.

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  HE scenes of the war, related by a boy who followed the flag fromthe beginning to the end of the war, must carry with them a sense ofaccuracy, for they are the recollections of actual service. Those bookswhich have been written upon the war have, with very few exceptions,been penned from the standpoint of mature opinions and experiences. Inthis work the views and struggles of a boy who went into the army, froman honest desire to do right, are portrayed. To fight was abhorrent tohis nature, but there was a call for men who were willing to defend theinstitutions of his beloved land. And that defense was only possiblethrough bloodshed and conflict. Tenderly instructed by a loving andgentle mother, whose early home was in the South, it was almost awrenching of her cherished opinions, to give him up to fight againsther kindred. But her boy did not enter the contest with a thought ofconquering his fellow-beings, but as a duty which, though painful,must be performed. How that dear mother gave him to his country, how hemarched, and fought, and endured hardships, are here set forth in thecolors of truth, for it is a true story.

  And that the boys and girls of to-day and their fathers and mothers mayfollow the varying fortunes of the boy of our story, thus ushered intothe conflict, with pleasure and profit, is the heartfelt hope of

  The Author.

  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

  Abraham Lincoln and His Cabinet.........................008

  A Business Street in Manila.............................389

  A Cuban Home............................................371

  Allan Pinkerton and Secret Service Officers.............073

  An Alexandria Anti-bellum Relic.........................069

  Appomattox Court House..................................227

  Artillery Going to the Front............................126

  Asking for Furlough.....................................095

  A Southern Mansion......................................086

  A Stolen Child..........................................338

  A Sugar Factory in Manila...............................377

  Attack on Fredericksburg................................145

  Attack on the Mail......................................337

  A Typical Colored Boy...................................080

  Battle of Bull Run......................................051

  Battle of Chancellorsville..............................298

  Battle of Malvern Hill-Lee's Attack.....................076

  Battle of Phillipi......................................046

  Battle of Shiloh........................................194

  Bearing Dispatches......................................106

  Burning of Chicago......................................328

  Burnside Bridge.........................................135

  Burying Old Bill........................................142

  Camp Douglas............................................159

  Camp Fire Songs.........................................117

  Camp Life-In the Kitchen................................071

  Camp Life on Monday.....................................077

  Camp of the Army of the Potomac.........................104

  Capitol at Richmond.....................................065

  Captain John L Worden Commanding the Monitor............175

  Capture of a White Child................................340

  Caring for the Dead.....................................055

  Charge of a Confederate Cavalry at Trevalian Station... 221

  Colonel John S Mosby and a Group of His Raiders.........211

  Confederate Soldiers' Monument--Richmond, Va............259

  Crossing Big Black River................................191

  Custer's Last Charge....................................347

  Death of Sitting Bull...................................343

  Decoration Day--Gettysburg..............................262

  Destruction of Cervera's Fleet..........................385

  Devil's Den.............................................208

  Dewey's Victorious Battle...............................375

  Diamond Joe and Aunt Judah When Young...................082

  "Do Any of You Know Peter Hall?"........................123

  Drinking from the Same Canteen..........................245

  Earthquake at Charleston................................334

  Episcopal Church at Alexandria, Va......................088

  Fairfax Court House.....................................027

  Fall of General James B McPherson near Atlanta..........215

  Federal Gunboat--Foraging...............................072

  Foraging................................................197

  Fort Donelson...........................................161

  Fortress Monroe.........................................022

  Fort Sumter.............................................019

  Franklin Buchanan Commanding the Merrimac...............172

  Fremont's Body Guard....................................101

  Fun in Camp.............................................119

  Garfield Lying in State.................................314

  Garfield's Struggle with Death..........................316

  General Grant's Birthplace..............................30
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  General Hancock and Friends.............................153

  General Lee on His Favorite Horse.......................295

  General Longstreet Wounded by His Own Men...............213

  General Meade's Headquarters............................298

  General Miles...........................................393

  Gettysburg Cemetery Gate................................212

  Grant's Tomb-New York...................................258

  Grant Breaking a Horse..................................311

  Grant Plowing at the Age of 11..........................310

  Hailing the Troops......................................064

  Harper's Ferry..........................................040

  Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia........................323

  House Where Lee Surrendered.............................242

  Indian Chief............................................349

  Indian Dance............................................339

  Indian Schools of To-day................................341

  Indian Scout............................................350

  Interior of Hospital....................................249

  In Winter Quarters......................................105

  Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet.........................010

  Joe Hiding in the Woods.................................083

  John Brown's Capture....................................042

  Location of the Union Troops--Henry House...............053

  Making a Military Road Through a Swamp..................198

  Map-Battlefields of the Great Civil War.................147

  Map-Loyal and Seceding States...........................052

  Map--Showing the Seat of War............................132

  Map-The Shenandoah Valley...............................121

  McLean House............................................232

  National Cemetery at Richmond, Va.......................217

  Negro Village in Georgia................................036

  Off for the War.........................................018

  Old Aunt Judah..........................................081

  Old City Hall-New Orleans...............................113

  On Board the Hartford-Battle of Mobile Bay..............168

  On the March............................................039

  Picket Off Duty Forever.................................059

  Proposed Monument to Jefferson Davis....................260

  Portrait-Alexander H Stephens...........................024

  Portrait-Abraham Lincoln................................236

  Portrait-Admiral Cervera................................381

  Portrait--Benjamin F Butler.............................043

  Portrait-Brigadier-General Neal Dow.....................222

  Portrait-Buffalo Bill, a Foe of the Indians.............342

  Portrait-Belle Boyd.....................................257

  Portrait-Charles A Dana.................................133

  Portrait-Captain Charles Wilke..........................203

  Portrait-Capt Raphael Semmes............................218

  Portrait-Commander David D Porter.......................186

  Portrait-Christopher Carson.............................351

  Portrait-Colonel Charles W Le Gendre....................214

  Portrait-Florence Nightingale...........................255

  Portrait-Frances Willard................................358

  Portrait-General Ambrose E Burnside.....................125

  Portrait-General Custer.................................218

  Portrait-General George B McClellan.....................047

  Portrait-General George E Meade.........................151

  Portrait-General Grant..................................163

  Portrait-General Grant..................................231

  Portrait-General Hooker.................................154

  Portrait-General John A Dix.............................025

  Portrait-General James Longstreet, C S A................062

  Portrait-General Joseph E Johnston......................091

  Portrait-General John C Fremont.........................100

  Portrait-General John A Logan...........................190

  Portrait-General James B McPherson......................196

  Portrait-James Abram Garfield...........................315

  Portrait-General Lee....................................399

  Portrait-General Lew Wallace............................127

  Portrait-General Oliver O Howard........................220

  Portrait-General P T G Beauregard.......................045

  Portrait-General Phil Kearney...........................139

  Portrait-General Pickett................................209

  Portrait-General Rosecrans..............................136

  Portrait-General Stonewall Jackson......................182

  Portrait-General Winfield Scott.........................030

  Portrait-General Winfield Hancock.......................152

  Portrait-General William Tecumseh Sherman...............189

  Portrait-General Wade Hampton...........................205

  Portrait-General Robert Anderson........................292

  Portrait-Harriet B Stowe................................206

  Portrait-Henry Ward Beecher.............................021

  Portrait-Hobson.........................................383

  Portrait-Honorable Charles Sumner.......................087

  Portrait-Horace Greeley.................................204

  Portrait-James Murray Mason.............................020

  Portrait-John Slidell...................................020

  Portrait-John Brown.....................................041

  Portrait-Jennie Wade....................................209

  Portraits (from Photographs)-John M Morgan and Wife.....216

  Portrait-John A Winslow.................................219

  Portrait-John B Gordon..................................229

  Portrait-Jefferson Davis................................230

  Portrait-John Wilkes Booth..............................237

  Portrait-Lee's Surrender................................239

  Portrait-General Montgomery Meigs.......................026

  Portrait-Major-General Philip H Sheridan................226

  Portrait-Miss Nellie M Taylor...........................251

  Portrait-Miss Hattie A Dana.............................252

  Portrait-Mrs Mary D Wade................................252

  Portrait-Miss Clara Barton..............................253

  Portrait-Major-General Fitzhugh Lee, C S A..............094

  Portrait-Miss Louisa M Alcott...........................256

  Portrait-Mrs Mary Livermore.............................254

  Portrait-Miss Margaret Breckenridge.....................256

  Portrait-Robert E Lee...................................078

  Portrait-Rear Admiral David G Farragut..................186

  Portrait-Thomas A Edison................................325

  Portrait--Walter Q Gresham..............................223

  Portrait--William H Seward..............................320

  Portrait-William McKinley...............................356

  Portrait-William J Bryan................................356

  Pickets Examining Passes................................175

  Prayer in Stonewall Jackson's Camp..................
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  Prayer at the Funeral of the Maine's Victims............369

  Punishment in the Army..................................207

  Ralph and the Officer...................................029

  Ralph's Good-Bye........................................032

  Recruiting Office, New York City Hall Park..............181

  Rejoicing...............................................066

  Review of Soldiers-Washington...........................241

  Ruins of the House......................................085

  Sharp Shooters..........................................107

  Sheridan Reconnoitering at Five Forks...................224

  Siege Gun...............................................020

  Soldiers Near Santiago..................................395

  The Art Palace, World's Fair............................353

  The Battle of Atlanta, Ga...............................097

  Stand of Flags..........................................170

  The Death of Ellsworth..................................043

  The Frigate Cumberland Rammed by the Merrimac...........173

  The Sister's Farewell...................................277

  Thomas A Edison and His Talking Machine.................326