. Knapsack and rifle; or, Life in the Grand Army; war as seen from the ranks. Pen pictures and sketches of camp, bivouac, marches, battle-fields and battles, commanders, great military movements, personal reminiscences and narratives of army life ... Also, a complete chronology of the war, and a digest of the pension laws of the United States .. . PICKETS 0:Nr DUTY. Harry sighed, and followed his brothers was evidently useless, and within ten minutesboth seemed lost in sound slumbers. During the remainder of the night all was were, it is true, low and incomprehensi
. Knapsack and rifle; or, Life in the Grand Army; war as seen from the ranks. Pen pictures and sketches of camp, bivouac, marches, battle-fields and battles, commanders, great military movements, personal reminiscences and narratives of army life ... Also, a complete chronology of the war, and a digest of the pension laws of the United States .. . PICKETS 0:Nr DUTY. Harry sighed, and followed his brothers was evidently useless, and within ten minutesboth seemed lost in sound slumbers. During the remainder of the night all was were, it is true, low and incomprehensible soundsfrom the direction of the city. And a rifle shot from thepicket line startled the camp about three oclock inthe morning. But it proved to have been fired at a sup-posed lurking figure, and those whom it had disturbedwere soon asleep again. 332 KNAPSACK AND BIFLE. Yet when Harry Vail awakened near daybreak of thenext morning, it w^as to learn the true meaning of hisbrothers Good bye. He lay alone. His captive had vanished daring thenight. Only the impression of his body in the grassremained as evidence of his ever having been there. Itwas he then that had stolen through the picket lines,calling forth the one shot of alarm. The escaped prisonerw^as safely back again in the ranks of his chosen friends. That Seigeant Vail was annoyed
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