230. ILLUSTRATIVE PLATE FOR PART VII.,-CHRISTIAN AND SANITARY COMMISSIONS, 516

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GENERAL

CONTENTS.

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PREFACE, AND PLAN OF THE Work, -

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LIST OF PLATES, PORTRAITS, AND DESCRIPTIVE EMBELLISHMENTS,

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PART FIRST.

PATRIOTIC, POLITICAL, CIVIL, JUDICIAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, ETC.

Pages 23-154.

MEMORABLE ANNALS AND REMINISCENCES OF MEN AND MEASURES IDENTIFIED

WITH THE GREAT STRUGGLE; HEROIC DEVOTION TO THE STAR-SPANGLED

BANNER, VALOROUS DEFENCE OF AND DYING BLESSINGS UPON IT; DARK

AND TROUBLOUS EXPERIENCES OF UNIONISTS AND CONSPIRATORS; TESTS AND

TRIALS OF LOYALTY, NORTH AND SOUTH; FAMOUS LEGAL AND JUDICIAL INCI-

DENTS; PECULIAR INSTANCES OF ADMINISTERING AND TAKING THE OATH;

ALLEGIANCE Under Stress of CIRCUMSTANCES; DISPOSAL OF KNOTTY CASES;

LOGIC AND LESSONS FOR SECESSIONISTS; AMUSING COLLOQUIES; FLASHES OF

RHETORIC; OFFICIAL GRAVITIES, JOKES, RAILLERY, BLUNDERS, RETORTS, BUR-
LESQUES, WITTICISMS; &C., &c.

PART SECOND.

VOLUNTEERING, DRAFTING, COMMUTING, SUBSTITUTING, DESERTING, ETC.

Pages 157-218.

NOBLE Instances of Rallying to the Ranks, and of Enlistment Among the

AGED AND YOUNG; HEARINGS, LUDICROUS AND PERPLEXING, BEFORE THE

COMMISSIONERS; RAW RECRUITS AND ECCENTRIC CHARACTERS; APPLICANTS

FOR EXEMPTION; RUSES AND QUIBBLES TO ESCAPE DUTY-STRANGE PHE-

NOMENA OF NATIVITY, AGE AND INFIRMITIES; BEWILDERED SURGEONS; LUCK-

LESS CONSCRIPTS; RARE BROKERAGE AND BOUNTY DEALINGS; FLUSH PURSES;

HARDSHIPS AND MISERIES; SIDE-SHAKING GAIETIES, JESTS, PUNS; &c., &c.

PART THIRD.

GREAT CONFLICTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ARMY, AND ILLUSTRIOUS

EXAMPLES OF INDIVIDUAL HEROISM IN THE RANK AND FILE, ETC.

Pages 221-348.

BRILLIANT BATTLE SCENES; MILITARY CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LEADINg Gen-

ERALS, THEIR APPEARANCE, CONVERSATIONS, ORDERS, TACTICS AND BRAVERY,

WHEN CONFRONTING THE ENEMY; MARTYRS ON THE GORY FIELD; UNPARAL-

LELED FORTITUDE AND ENDURANCE; COOLNESS AND INTREPIDITY in Danger;

BOLD MOVEMENTS OF ARTILLERY, CAVALRY, AND INFANTRY; SPLENDID

CHARGES; DESPERATE HAND-TO-HAND ENCOUNTERS; EXTRAORDINARY SHARP-

SHOOTING; MEMORIALS OF YOUTHFUL COURAGE; DEALINGS WITH BUSH-'

WHACKERS AND GUERRILLAS; CELEBRITIES AND ADVENTURES OF CAMP, PICKET,

SPY, SCOUT AND STAFF; PERIL, TERROR, PANIC, AND DISASTER; MIRTH-PRO-

VOKING SIGHTS, SCENES, WHIMS, SQUIBS, ODDITIES; &C., &C.

PART FOURTH.

NAVAL AND COMMERCIAL; SQUADRON, FLEET, STEAMER, GUNBOAT,

TRANSPORT AND PRIVATEER; THEIR CRUISES, OFFICERS,

PERFORMANCES, ETC.

Pages 351-398.

TERRIBLE ENGAGEMENTS; SUFFERING AND DEATH FOR THE FLAG; HAVOC AND

HORRORS OF MODERN BOMBARDMENT; BLOCKADE EXPLOITS; FEATS OF SEA-

MANSHIP; FURIOUS PERSONAL COMBATS; LONG AND EXCITING CHASES;

ESCAPES, RESCUES, PRIZES; THRILLING CATASTROPHES AND TRAGEDIES, CAP-

TURES, SINKINGS AND SURRENDERS; AWKWARD LANDSMEN, RAW MARINES,

JOLLY VETERANS, AND TREACHEROUS PILOTS; JACK AFLOAT AND ASHORE;

Freaks, DrollERIES, HAPS AND MISHAPS, AMONG THE LOYAL TARPAULINS

AND BLUE JACKETS; &C., &c.

PART FIFTH.

MILITARY ORGANIZATION AND EQUIPMENT, DISCIPLINE AND DRILL,

PARADE, REVEILLE, REVIEWS, ORDNANCE, PAROLES, PASSES,

FURLOUGHS, COUNTERSIGNS, FUGITIVE HUNTS, ETC.

Pages 401-440.

MUSTERING-IN; SPLENDID SPECIMENS OF SOLDIERLY MOVEMENT; DEXTEROUS

HANDLING OF ARMS; EVOLUTIONS, COMICAL AND PIQUANT; QUEER DILEMMAS;

UNCOUTH SUBJECTS AND VERDANT VICTIMS, WHITE AND BLACK; Grotesque

PERFORMANCES; NOVEL TERMS AND PHRASEOLOGY; BIVOUAC SIGHTS; TASKS

AND PLEASANTRIES; MISTAKES, JOCULARITIES, FACETIE; &c., &c.

PART SIXTH.

COMMISSARY AND RATIONS, FINANCE AND CURRENCY, THE PRESS, THE

MAILS, THE TELEGRAPH, ETC.

Pages 443-514.

UNCLE SAM'S SUPPLIES; SUBSISTENCE UNDER DIFFICULTIES; 'HARD-TACK' AND

MULE BEEF LEGENDS; FORAGING RAIDS; DISLOYAL FOWLS AND CONTRA-

BAND DAINTIES; IMPROMPTU CONFISCATIONS IN A SMALL WAY; DIALOGUES

WITH THE QUARTERMASTER; SHAMEFUL IMPOSITIONS; SCRIP AND CURRENCY

VARIETIES; UNIQUE BANKING OPERATIONS; COLLECTION EXCURSIONS AT THE
SOUTH, CHIVALRIC REPUDIATION; TRICKS, ARTIFICE, AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
OF EDITORS, REPORTERS AND CORRESPONDENTS; INCIDENTS OF THE MAIL;
TELEGRAPHIC ODDS AND ENDS, MISCELLANIES, NOVELTIES, FINESSE; &C., &C.

PART SEVENTH.

DOMESTIC, MORAL, WOMANLY, SANITARY, AFFECTIONAL, MATRIMONIAL,

ROMANTIC, ETC.

Pages 517-630.

EXHIBITION OF PERSONAL TRAITS,-BENEVOLENCE, GENEROSITY, COURTESY,

MAGNANIMITY, &C.; ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE HOME AFFECTIONS AND HOUSE-

HOLD ATTACHMENTS; FEMALE SOLDIERS; REGIMENTAL PETS; MARRIAGES IN

CAMP;
NOBLE WORDS AND DEEDS OF LOYAL WOMEN; RANCOR AND CRIMI-

NALITIES OF FEMALE SECESSIONISTS; HOSPITAL PATIENTS; MINISTRATIONS TO

THE SICK AND WOUNDED; BOGUS INVALIDS; PARTINGS, REUNIONS, BEREAVE-

MENTS, AND BURIALS; TOUCHING DEATH-BED SCENES,-LAST WORDS, MEMEN-

TOES, KEEPSAKES AND SOUVENIRS; PRISON CONTACTS, COMPANIONS, AND HOR-

RORS;
SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF CHAPLAINS; GENIALITIES, CARRICATURES,

PATHOS, FANCIES AND REALITIES; &C., &C.

PART EIGHTH.

FINAL SCENES AND EVENTS IN THE GREAT DRAMA; ASSASSINATION OF

PRESIDENT LINCOLN; IGNOMINIOUS DOOM OF JEFFERSON DAVIS, ETC.

Pages 633-660.

THE MOST STRIKING OCCURRENCES RELATING TO THE ASSASSINATION CONSPIR-

ACY, THE TRAGEDY, THE ACTORS AND THEIR DOOM; REMARKABLE PASSAGES

AND CONVERSATIONS IN MR. LINCOLN'S PRESIDENTIAL LIFE,-MEMORIAL INCI-

DENTS OF HIS Death and of a NATION'S MOURNING; CAPTURE AND CUSTODY

of Jefferson DAVIS, HIS SAYINGS AND DOINGS, PERSONAL BEARING among

HIS CAPTORS, AND IGNOMINIOUS FATE; INTERESTING REMINISCENCES IN THE

CAREER OF ANDREW JOHNSON; &C., &c.