. Tom Strong, Lincoln's scout, a story of the United States in the times that tried men's souls . im Westward and to theWest he went, as fast as the slow trains of thosedays could carry him. But when Hans Rolf andhe parted, a few hours after they had met, theywere friends for life. It took Tom two days to get from Harrisburgto Cairo, the southernmost town in Illinois. Itlies at the junction of the IMississippi and Ohiorivers. The latter pours a mass of beautiful bluewater—the early French explorers named theOhio the beautiful river —into the muddyflood of the IMississippi. For miles below Cair
. Tom Strong, Lincoln's scout, a story of the United States in the times that tried men's souls . im Westward and to theWest he went, as fast as the slow trains of thosedays could carry him. But when Hans Rolf andhe parted, a few hours after they had met, theywere friends for life. It took Tom two days to get from Harrisburgto Cairo, the southernmost town in Illinois. Itlies at the junction of the IMississippi and Ohiorivers. The latter pours a mass of beautiful bluewater—the early French explorers named theOhio the beautiful river —into the muddyflood of the IMississippi. For miles below Cairothe blue and yellow streams seem to flow sideby side. Then the yellow swallows the blue andthe mighty Mississippi rolls its murky way tothe Gulf of Mexico. A gunboat took the young Tom Strong, Lincolns Scout 85 messenger from Cairo to General Grants head-quarters. A Western gunboat was an odd thing. JamesB. Eads, an eminent engineer, who after the warbuilt the St. Louis bridge and the New Orleansjetties, which keep the mouth of the Mississippiopen, had launched a flotilla of gunboats for. Hft MISSISSIPPI RIVER GUNBOATS the government within four months of the timewhen the trees which went to their making weregrowing in the forests. On a flat-boat of theordinary Western-river type, Mr. Eads put along cabin, framed of stout timbers, cut port-holes in the sides, front and rear of it, mountedcannon inside it, covered it with rails outside(later armor-plate was used), and behold, a gun- 86 Tom Strong, Lincolns Scout boat. The one which sped swiftly with Tomdown the Mississippi and w^addled slowly withhim up the Tennessee, against the current of theSpring freshets, finally landed him at Grantsheadquarters. Tom approached the tent over which head-quarters* flag was flying with a beating beat against the long envelope that lay in theinner pocket of his waistcoat. He w^as about tofinish his task and he was about to see the onesuccessful soldier of the Union, up to that tim
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