. Sparks from the camp fire : thrilling stories of heroism, adventure, daring and sufferng . Corps Badges . 525 Explanation of Plate 527 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. Selecting Fresh of a Short Halt . A Lively Engagement The Spys Encounter with a Bloodhound The Wide-awake Irish Sentinel A Prompt Kesurrection Two Views of a Practical Joke The Boy Hero of the Bienville Home of Sallie Richmond and Devil Bill * Locked in Fearful Strife . What War? The Revolution . Ike Barker Whopped . Fac-simile of Page from a Richmond Account Book, 1865 Escaping Prisoners Harbored by Negroes How Hop


. Sparks from the camp fire : thrilling stories of heroism, adventure, daring and sufferng . Corps Badges . 525 Explanation of Plate 527 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. Selecting Fresh of a Short Halt . A Lively Engagement The Spys Encounter with a Bloodhound The Wide-awake Irish Sentinel A Prompt Kesurrection Two Views of a Practical Joke The Boy Hero of the Bienville Home of Sallie Richmond and Devil Bill * Locked in Fearful Strife . What War? The Revolution . Ike Barker Whopped . Fac-simile of Page from a Richmond Account Book, 1865 Escaping Prisoners Harbored by Negroes How Hopkins Gave the Countersign . All Night on Guard. The Tennessee Blacksmiths Defiance Braggs High Private on the March Not Used to Salt Water Newcomers Close Call Perils of Southern Unionists One of the Results of Belle Isle A Wreck from Andersonville Gunnybag Uniforms from Belle Isle A Southern Slaughter-House . Map of Andersonville . , Chart of Corps Badges PAGE 112294112114163167188206212223228235243266298365375420494495506508516527 *^^^-2?^^^ ^&/7 iao^ m. SPARKS FROM THE CAMP FIRE THE GEEAT EAILKOAD ADVENTURE. The expedition which is here recorded had, in thedaring of its conception, the wildness of a romance;while in the gigantic and overwhelming results which itsought and was likely to accomplish it was absolutelysublime. In April, 1862, the rebel forces in the West, underBeauregard, were concentrated at Corinth, Miss., withsmaller detachments scattered along the railroad toChattanooga, Tenn. The railroads on which he reliedfor supplies and reinforcements, as well as for commu-nication with the eastern portion of rebeldom, formedan irregular parallelogram, of which the northern sideextended from Memphis, Tenn., to Chattanooga; theeastern from Chattanooga to Atlanta, Ga.; the southernfrom Atlanta to Jackson, Miss; and the western, by anetwork of roads, from Jackson to Memphis. Thegreat East Tennessee and Virginia R. R. intersectedthis parallelogram


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