. The Confederate mail carrier; or, From Missouri to Arkansas through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. An unwritten leaf of the "Civil War". Being an account of the battles, marches and hardships of the First and Second brigades, Mo., C. S. A. Together with the thrilling adventures and narrow escapes of Captain Grimes and his fair accomplice, who carried the mail by "underground route" from the brigade to Missouri . to the Trans-Mississippi Department,and again drive the enemy from their native State. But thesoldier had learned that every day and hour of war was anemergency, and th
. The Confederate mail carrier; or, From Missouri to Arkansas through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. An unwritten leaf of the "Civil War". Being an account of the battles, marches and hardships of the First and Second brigades, Mo., C. S. A. Together with the thrilling adventures and narrow escapes of Captain Grimes and his fair accomplice, who carried the mail by "underground route" from the brigade to Missouri . to the Trans-Mississippi Department,and again drive the enemy from their native State. But thesoldier had learned that every day and hour of war was anemergency, and that in its shifting scenes and changing for-tunes no one could tell what a day would bring forth. To no one was this a more solemn reality than to the Firstand Second Brigades of Missourians. These brigades werecomposed of the noblest blood of the State; young men ofpromise, of pride, of honor, of manhood, of expectation; youngmen who loved home, country, and whose ambition was to bean ornament to one and a blessing to the other; men who wereproud of their State, and of whose courage and devotion theState will ever boast. Many of them had stopped right outfrom the first colleges of the land to enlist in the army; younglawyers had left their practice, and those who were taking thefront rank in every profession, had joined their fortunes withthe fate of battle. Such men as these loved the sacred altars of home, and the 48. o^aAA
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