PART THIRD:

ANECDOTES OF THE REBELLION-GREAT CONFLICTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ARMY, AND ILLUSTRIOUS EXAMPLES OF INDIVIDUAL HEROISM IN

THE RANK AND FILE; ETC.

BRILLIANT BATTLE SCENES; MILITARY CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LEADING GENERALS,THEIR APPEARANCE, CONVERSATIONS, ORDERS, TACTICS AND BRAVERY, WHEN CONFRONTING THE ENEMY; MARTYRS ON THE GORY FIELD; UNPARALLELED FORTITUDE AND ENDURANCE; COOLNESS AND INTREPIDITY IN DANGER; BOLD MOVEMENTS OF ARTILLERY, CAVALRY, AND INFANTRY; SPLENDID CHARGES; DESPERATE HAND-TO-HAND ENCOUNTERS; EXTRAORDINARY SHARPSHOOTING; EXAMPLES OF YOUTHFUL COURAGE; DEALINGS WITH BUSHWHACKERS AND GUERILLAS; CELEBRITIES AND ADVENTURES OF CAMP, PICKET, SPY, SCOUT, AND STAFF; PERIL, TERROR, PANIC AND DISASTER; MIRTHPROVOKING SIGHTS, SCENES, WHIMS, SQUIBS, ODDITIES, &C., &c.

"Strike for that broad and goodly land
Blow after blow; till men shall see
That Might and Right move hand in hand,

And glorious must their triumph be!"

"He sleeps where he fell, 'mid the battle's roar,

With his comrades true and brave;

And his noble form we shall see no more,

It rests in a hero's grave."

No enemy can withstand you, and no defences, however formidable, can check your onward march.-GENERAL GRANT to his army.

Boys, your field officers are all gone! I will lead you.-GENERAL WILLIAMS, at Baton Rouge, just before he fell mortally wounded.

Men, don't run till I run!- The lamented COL. E. D. BAKER, at Ball's Bluff.

Why don't you go after 'em? Don't mind me, I'll catch up,-I'm a little cold, but running will warm me.-Dying words of ALBERT, the Mass. drummer boy.

Planting the Flag on Mission Ridge Crest.

The

story of the battle
of Mission Ridge is
struck with immor-
tality; the gray quar-
ry there still firmly
belted itself; the reb-

That work carried, and what then? A hill, struggling up out of the valley, four hundred feet, rained on by bullets, swept by shot and shell!

Another line of works-and then, up like a Gothic roof, rough with rocks, a wreck with fallen trees, four hundred feet more!

Another ring of fire and iron, and then Fel army was terribly the crest, and then-the enemy!

,battered at the edges יתית

To dream of such a journey would be but yet full in our madness; to devise it a thing incredible; front it grimly waited, biding out its time. to do it a deed impossible. But Grant

The base attained, what then? A heavy rebel work, packed with the enemy, rimming it like a battlement !

was guilty of them all, and Granger was equal to the work.

At half-past three a group of generals