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The Tocsin Of War | |
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The Four Parties | |
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Their Candidates | |
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Freedom of Speech Abridged | |
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Secession Decreed | |
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Lincoln Elected | |
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Oh, for Andrew Jackson! Exit Buchanan | |
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"Long-heeled Abolitionists" and "Black Republicans" | |
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"Wide-awakes" and "Rail-splitters" | |
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"Copperheads" | |
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The Misunderstanding | |
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Northern Doughfaces | |
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Loyal Men of All Parties Unite | |
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The First Rally | |
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Preparation in the Bay State and in Other States | |
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Her War Governor | |
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Showing the White Feather | |
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The Memorable Fifteenth of April | |
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"The Sweet Little Man" | |
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Parting Scenes | |
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The Three-Months' Men | |
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Enlisting | |
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The President's Error | |
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"Three Years Unless Sooner Discharged" | |
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How Volunteer Companies were Raised | |
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Filling the Quotas | |
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What General Sherman Says | |
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Recruiting Offices | |
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Advertisements for Recruits | |
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A War Meeting in Roxbury | |
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A Typical War Meeting in the Country | |
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A Small-Sized Patriot | |
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Signing the Roll | |
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The Medical Examination | |
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Off for Camp | |
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The Red, White, and Blue | |
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How The Soldiers Were Sheltered | |
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The Distinction Noted Between the Militia and the U. S. Volunteers | |
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The Oath of Muster | |
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Barracks Described | |
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Sibley or Bell Tents | |
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A or Wedge Tents | |
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Spooning | |
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Stockading | |
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Hospital or Wall Tents | |
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Dog or Shelter Tent Described | |
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Chumming | |
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Pitching Shelters | |
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Stockaded Shelters | |
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Fireplaces | |
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Chimneys | |
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Door Plates | |
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"Willard's Hotel" | |
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"Hole in the Wall" | |
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Mortars and Mortar Shelling before Petersburg | |
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Life In Tents | |
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Life in a Sibley | |
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The Stove | |
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The Pastimes | |
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Postage Stamps as Money | |
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Soldier's Letter | |
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"Nary Red" | |
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Illustrated Envelopes | |
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Army Reading | |
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The Recluse | |
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Evenings of Sociability | |
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Pipe and Ring Making | |
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Home Gossip | |
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Music and the Contrabands | |
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War Song Revived | |
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The "Mud March" Prayer | |
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Life In Log Huts | |
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The Plan of a Camp | |
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Inside a Stockade | |
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The Bunks | |
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The Arrangement of the Furniture | |
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AEsthetic Dish-washing | |
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Lighting by Candles and Slush Lamps | |
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Candlesticks | |
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Night-Gowns and Night-Caps | |
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The Shelters in a Rain | |
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"I. C." Insect Life | |
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Pediculus Vestimenti, the Old-time Grayback | |
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Not a Respecter of Rank | |
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The First Grayback Found | |
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(K) nitting Work | |
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"Skirmishing" | |
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Boiling Water the Sovereign Balm | |
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Cleanliness | |
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The Versatile Mess-Kettles | |
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No Magee Ranges Supplied the Soldiers | |
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Washerwomen | |
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No "Boiled Shirts" | |
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Darning and Mending | |
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Government Socks | |
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Cooks | |
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Green Pine as Fuel | |
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Camp Barbers | |
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Future Tacticians | |
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Jonahs And Beats | |
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The Jonah as a Guardsman | |
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A Midnight Uproar | |
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"Put him in the Guard-house" | |
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The Jonah Spills Pea-Soup, and Coffee, and Ink | |
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Always Cooking | |
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Steps on the Rails | |
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Tableau | |
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Jonah as a Wood-chopper | |
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Beats | |
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The Beat as a Fireman | |
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Without Water, and Rations, and Money | |
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His Letters Containing Money always Miscarry | |
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Allotments | |
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The Beat as a Guard Dodger | |
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His Corporal Does the Duty | |
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As a Fatigue Detail | |
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Horse-Burying as a Civilizer for Jonahs and Beats | |
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The Detail for the Burial | |
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The Over-worked Man | |
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The Rheumatic Dodge | |
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The Sick Man | |
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The Chief Mourner | |
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The Explosive Man | |
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The Paper-Collar Young Man | |
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Forward, Grave-diggers! | |
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Hurrah! Without the H | |
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Army Rations | |
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Were They Adequate? | |
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Their Quality | |
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A List of Them | |
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What was Included in a Single Ration | |
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What was a Marching Ration? | |
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Officers' Allowance | |
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The "Company Fund" | |
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Hardtack" Described | |
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Its Faults Three in Number | |
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Served in Twenty Different Ways | |
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Song of the Hardtack | |
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"Soft Bread" | |
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The Capitol as a Bake-house | |
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The Ovens at Alexandria and Fort Monroe | |
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Grant's Immense Bake-house at City Point | |
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Coffee and Sugar | |
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How Dealt Out | |
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How Stored | |
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Condensed Milk | |
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Company Cooks | |
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The Coffee-Dipper | |
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The Typical Coffee-Boiler | |
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Bivouac and Coffee | |
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How the Government Beat the Speculators | |
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How a Contractor Underbid Himself | |
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Fresh Meat | |
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How Served | |
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Army Frying-Pans | |
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Steak from a Steer's Jaw-Bone | |
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"Salt Horse" Not a Favorite Dish | |
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Salt Pork and its Uses | |
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The Army Bean | |
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How it was Baked | |
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Song of the Army Bean | |
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Desiccated Vegetables | |
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The Whiskey Ration | |
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A Suggestion as to the Inadequacy of the Marching Ration | |
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Offences And Punishments | |
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The Offences Enumerated | |
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"Back Talk" | |
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Absence from Camp without Leave | |
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The Punishments | |
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The Guard Tent | |
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The Black List | |
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Its Occupations | |
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Buck and Gag | |
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The Barrel and its Uses | |
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The Crucifixion | |
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The Wooden Horse | |
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The Knapsack Drill | |
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Tied up by the Thumbs | |
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The Sweat-Box | |
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The Placard | |
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The Spare Wheel | |
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Log-Lugging | |
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Double Guard | |
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The Model Regiment | |
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Commanders often Tyrants by Nature, or from Effects of Rum, or Ignorance | |
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A Regiment with Hundreds of Colonels | |
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Inactivity Productive of Offences and Punishments | |
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Kid-Glove Warfare | |
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Drumming out of Camp | |
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Rogue's March | |
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Ball and Chain | |
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Sleeping on Post | |
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Desertion | |
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Death of a Deserter Described-Death of a Spy Described | |
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Bounty-jumpers | |
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Amnesty to Deserters | |
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Desertion to Enemy | |
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Hanging of Three Criminals at Once for this Offence Described | |
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Number of Executions in the War | |
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A Day In Camp. "Assembly Of Buglers." "Turn Out!" "Assembly." | |
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How the Men Came into Line | |
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A Canteen Wash | |
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The Shirks | |
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"I Can't Get 'Em Up" | |
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"All Present or Accounted For" | |
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"Stable Call" | |
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Kingly Cannoneers and Spare Horses | |
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"Breakfast Call" | |
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"Sick Call" | |
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"Fall In for Your Quinine" | |
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The Beats again | |
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"Lack of Woman's Nursing" | |
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"Water Call" | |
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Where the Animals were Watered | |
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Number of Animals in the Army | |
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Scarcity of Water | |
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"Fatigue Call" | |
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What it Included | |
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Army Stables | |
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The Picket-Rope | |
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Mortality of Horses | |
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Scarcity of Wood | |
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"Drill Call" | |
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Artillery Drill | |
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Standing Gun Drill | |
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Battery Manoeuvres | |
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Sham Fights | |
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Drilling by Bugle Calls | |
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"Dinner Call" | |
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"Retreat" | |
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Scolding Time | |
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"Assembly of Guard" | |
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The Reliefs | |
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Fun for the Corporal | |
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Some of His Trials | |
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"Next Tent Below" | |
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"Tattoo" | |
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Reminiscences | |
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Taps | |
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"Put out that Light!" | |
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"Stop that Talking!" | |
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Raw Recruits | |
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A Scrap of Personal History | |
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A Parent's Certificate | |
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The Lot of a Recruit | |
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Abused by the Old Hands | |
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Flush with Money | |
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A Practical Joke | |
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Two Classes of Recruits | |
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The Matter-of-fact Recruit a Final Success | |
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The High-toned Recruits | |
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Their Loud Uniform | |
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Scoffers at Government Rations | |
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As Hostlers | |
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The Awkward Squad | |
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The Decline in the Quality of Recruits | |
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Men of '61-2 | |
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Unschooled Soldiers | |
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Hope Deferred | |
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"One Last Embrace" | |
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French Leave Furloughs | |
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Life in Home Camp | |
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Family Knots | |
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A Mother's Fond Solicitude | |
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Galling Lessons of Obedience | |
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Bounties Paid Recruits | |
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"I'm a Raw Recruit" | |
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"The Substitute" | |
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Special Rations. Boxes From Home | |
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Sending for a Box | |
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A Specimen Address | |
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A Typical List of Contents | |
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Impatience at its Non-arrival | |
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Its Inspection at Headquarters | |
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Its Reception at Camp | |
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The Opening | |
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Box-packing as an Art | |
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The Whole Neighborhood Contributes | |
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Soldiers Who Had No Boxes | |
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The Box of the Selfish Man | |
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His Onions | |
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"We've Drank from the same Canteen" | |
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The Army Sutler | |
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His Stock-in-trade | |
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His Prices | |
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The Commissary | |
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Army Fritters | |
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Sutler's Pies | |
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Sutler's Risks | |
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Raiding the Sutler | |
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What a Sutler Lost near Brandy Station | |
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War Prices in Dixie | |
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Foraging | |
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Strictly Prohibited at First | |
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Two Reasons Why | |
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The Right and Wrong of It | |
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Innocent Sufferers | |
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Unauthorized Foragers | |
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The Destitution of Some Families | |
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The Family Turnout | |
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Wantonness at Fredericksburg | |
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Authorized Foragers | |
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Their Plunder | |
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Foraging at Wilcox's Farm | |
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Tobacco Foragers | |
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The Cavalry in Their Role | |
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The Infantry | |
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Incidents | |
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Risks Assumed by Foragers | |
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Union Versus Confederate Soldier as a Forager | |
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Corps And Corps Badges | |
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What was an Army Corps? | |
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How the Army of the Potomac was Organized | |
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Brigade and Division Formations | |
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"All quiet along the Potomac" | |
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"Why don't the Army move?" | |
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How Corps were Composed | |
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Their Number | |
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Corps Badges | |
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Their Origin | |
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The Kearny Patch | |
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Worn First by Officers, then by the Privates | |
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Hooker's Scheme of Corps Badges | |
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Its Extension to other Armies | |
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The Badge of each Army Corps Described | |
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Some Inventions And Devices Of The War | |
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Improvements in Firearms | |
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In War Vessels | |
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Catch-penny Devices for the Soldiers | |
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Combination Knife, Fork, and Spoon | |
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Water Filterers | |
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Armor Vests and Greaves | |
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Havelocks | |
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Revolvers and Dirk Knives | |
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"High-toned" Haversacks | |
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Compact Writing-desks Smoking-caps and the Turkish Fez | |
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Hatter's Caps Versus Government Caps | |
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The Numbering and Lettering of Knapsacks | |
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Haversacks and Canteens | |
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How these Equipments Changed Hands | |
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The Army Mule | |
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Where Raised | |
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Where the Government Obtained Them | |
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What They were Used for | |
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Compared with Horses | |
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Mule Fodder | |
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How a Mule Team was Composed | |
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How it was Driven | |
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How Mules were Obtained from the Corral | |
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The Black Snake and its Uses | |
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An Incident | |
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Mule Ears | |
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His Pastimes | |
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As a Kicker the Original Mugwump | |
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What Josh Billings Knows about Him | |
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His Kicking Range | |
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How He was Shod | |
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The Mule as a Singer | |
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Under the Pack-saddle | |
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The Mule as a Stubborn Fact | |
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His Conduct under Fire | |
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Captured Mules at Sailor's Creek | |
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What Became of All the Mules? | |
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The Mule Mortal | |
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"Charge of the Mule Brigade" | |
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Hospitals And Ambulances | |
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The First General Hospitals | |
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The First Medical Director | |
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Army Regulations Insufficient | |
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Verdancy of Regimental Surgeons | |
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Hospital Tents | |
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The Origin of Field Hospitals in Tents | |
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Their Capacity | |
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No Ambulances before the War | |
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Two-Wheeled and Four-Wheeled Ambulances | |
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Organization of the Ambulance Corps | |
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The Officers and Privates | |
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The Outfit | |
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Field Hospitals | |
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Their Location | |
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The Men in Charge | |
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Captured Hospitals | |
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A Paroled Prisoner | |
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A Personal Reminiscence | |
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Legs and Arms Unnecessarily Amputated | |
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Anecdote of a Heavy Artilleryman | |
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The Escort of the Wounded | |
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The Insignia of the Ambulance Corps | |
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A Personal Experience | |
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Hospital Railway Trains and Steamboats | |
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The Cacolet | |
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Scattering Shots. The Clothing | |
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The Allowance | |
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The Losses of Infantry | |
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Clothing of Garrisons | |
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First Maine Heavy Artillery | |
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Their First Active Campaigning | |
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Army Cattle | |
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The Kind Referred to | |
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Where They Came from | |
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Wade Hampton as a Cattle-Stealer | |
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Cattle on the March | |
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Their Route by Day and Night | |
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The Sagacious Leader | |
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The Slaughter | |
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The Corps Herd | |
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Heroic Horses | |
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Their Conduct in Action | |
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When Wounded | |
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A Personal Reminiscence | |
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Anecdote of General Hancock | |
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Sagacious Horses | |
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Breaking Camp, On The March | |
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Marching Orders | |
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When They Came | |
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What was Done at Once | |
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The Survival of the Fittest | |
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"Waverly" Correspondents | |
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The Night in Camp after Marching Orders Came | |
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Camp Fires and Hilarity | |
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"The General" | |
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The Wait in Camp | |
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Forward, March! | |
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The Order of March | |
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Corps Headquarters | |
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Division Headquarters | |
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The Division Flags Described | |
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Brigade Headquarters | |
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Brigade Flags Described | |
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Battle Flags | |
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The Mule of Regimental Headquarters | |
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His Company | |
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Light Batteries | |
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Lightening Loads | |
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The Chafed and Footsore | |
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Fording of Streams | |
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The Same by Night | |
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Personal Reminiscences | |
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"Close up!" | |
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Marching in a Rainstorm | |
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Camping in a Rainstorm | |
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Horses in the Rain and Sloughs | |
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A Personal Reminiscence | |
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Flankers | |
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"Column, Halt!" | |
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Double quick!" | |
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"They've found um" | |
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Army Wagon Trains | |
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Grant's Military Railroad | |
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The Impedimenta | |
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An Army Wagon | |
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An Army Minstrel Troupe | |
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The Transportation of a Regiment | |
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What They Originally Carried | |
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Baggage Trains on the Peninsula | |
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Chaos Illustrated | |
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The Responsibility of Train Officers | |
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What They had to Contend with | |
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The Struggle for the Lead | |
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Depot of Transportation | |
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The Officers of the Quartermaster's Department | |
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What Wagons Took Into the Wilderness | |
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The Allowance on the Final Campaign | |
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Incident | |
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Early Order of McClellan | |
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General Orders, No. 153 | |
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The Beginning of the Supply Trains | |
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What General Rufus Ingalls Did | |
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Meade's General Orders, No. 83 | |
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Strength of a Corps Supply Train | |
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Of the Army | |
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Its Extent | |
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Its Place on the March | |
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A Reminiscence of the Race for Centreville | |
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General Wadsworth's Bull Train | |
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Its Rise and Fall | |
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Trials of a Train Quartermaster | |
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He Runs Counter to Meade and Sheridan in the Discharge of his Duty | |
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Army Road And Bridge Builders | |
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The Engineer Corps | |
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Their Duties | |
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Corduroying | |
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Trestle Bridges | |
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Slashing | |
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Making of Gabions, etc. | |
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As Pontoniers | |
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Xerxes as an Early Pontonier | |
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His Bridge over the Hellespont Described | |
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Our Earliest Pontoon | |
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Bridges of Canvas Boats; of Wooden Boats | |
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Pontoon Bridge Material Described | |
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Balks, Bays, Chesses, Rack Lashings | |
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Pontoon Train | |
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Pontoon Bridge Building Described | |
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Taking Up a Pontoon Bridge | |
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The '62 Bridge over the Chickahominy | |
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Over the James | |
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Pontoon Bridge Laying before Fredericksburg | |
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The Stability of such Bridges | |
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Incident | |
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Life of an Engineer | |
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Talking Flags And Torches | |
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Old Glory | |
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Signal Flags | |
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The Signal Corps | |
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Its Use | |
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Its Origin | |
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The Kit | |
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The Talking | |
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The Code | |
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A Signal Party | |
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Sending a Message | |
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Receiving a Message | |
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The Torch | |
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General Corse's Despatch | |
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Signal Stations | |
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Lookouts before Petersburg | |
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"Which one?" | |
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What Longstreet Said | |
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What a Paper Correspondent Did | |
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Reading the Rebel Signal Code | |
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Signal Station at Poolesville, Md | |
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The Perils of Signal Men | |
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Death of a Signal Officer | |
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At Little Round Top | |
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Anecdote of Grant | |