Muskets and medicine; or, Army life in the sixties . icksburg from the South and East 9^3 X.—Assalt-t and Siege of the Confederate Strong-hold 102 XI.—Running the Vicksburg Batteries 115 XII.—Personnel of Our Hospital Staff 123 XIII.—Equipment, Work and Some Attaches of Our Regimental Hospital 129 XIV.—Our Most Efficient Cook and How I Undid Him 135 XV.—From Vicksburg to New Orleans 139 X\I.—Soldiering on Bayou Teche 145 XVII.—From the Teche to Texas 152 X\^III.—Some of the More Prevalent Diseases 157 XIX.—The Author Becomes .an 167 XX.—On the Mississippi in 1864 1S5 XXL—Aunt Tilda 19


Muskets and medicine; or, Army life in the sixties . icksburg from the South and East 9^3 X.—Assalt-t and Siege of the Confederate Strong-hold 102 XI.—Running the Vicksburg Batteries 115 XII.—Personnel of Our Hospital Staff 123 XIII.—Equipment, Work and Some Attaches of Our Regimental Hospital 129 XIV.—Our Most Efficient Cook and How I Undid Him 135 XV.—From Vicksburg to New Orleans 139 X\I.—Soldiering on Bayou Teche 145 XVII.—From the Teche to Texas 152 X\^III.—Some of the More Prevalent Diseases 157 XIX.—The Author Becomes .an 167 XX.—On the Mississippi in 1864 1S5 XXL—Aunt Tilda 190 Contents. CHAPTER PAGE XXII.—How THE Soldiers Recer^d their Money and How Some of Them Got Rid of it 197 XXIII.—Some E\^nts in 1864-5—Politics and War 201 XXIV.—The Campaign—1865 212 XXV.—Fall of Mobile and the Beginning of the End. 225XXVI.—A Confederate Mail-bag and a Glimpse at Some of its Contents 231 XXVII.—Surrender of the Confederate Armies 237~ XXVIII.—Disbanding the Armies 242 Appendix 250. In the Trenchc-s, lSr,l-5. ILLUSTRATIONS. FACING PAGE ]n the Trenches, 1861-5 Frontispiece Thomas W. Hynes, , a Clerical Patriot in the Sixties .. 32 Pocahontas Flag; Real Old Glory 40 General Grant as he looked during the Vicksburg Campaign. 64 U, S. Army Hospital Steamer D. A. ;^ 72 Interior of Hospital Boat. Cots made up for reception of patients 72 Captain Wm. M. Colby, 130th Illinois Volunteers. Mortally Wounded at Vicksburg, May 22, 1863 104 Miajor George W. Kennard, late Commander of the steamer Horizon, which ran the Vicksburg batteries on the night of April 22, 1863 120 Charles B. Johnson, age 21, Hospital Steward, 130th Illinois Infantry Volunteers 128 Civil War Hospital Knapsacks 136 Some Civil War Missiles 136 Hospital Ambulance 144 Army Wagon fitted up for carr\ing wounded 144 Civil War body louse, or grayback (Pediculus Vestinienti). From picture taken in war time 168 Lieutenant-Colonel John B. Reid, 130t


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