Devens, Richard Miller

THE PICTORIAL BOOK OF

ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS

OF THE

WAR OF THE REBELLION,

Civil, Military, Baval and Domestic;

EMBRACING THE MOST BRILLIANT AND REMARKABLE ANECDOTICAL EVENTS

OF THE

GREAT CONFLICT IN THE UNITED STATES:

HEROIC, PATRIOTIC, POLITICAL, ROMANTIC, HUMOROUS AND TRAGICAL,

FROM THE TIME OF THE MEMORABLE TOAST OF

ANDREW JACKSON~"THE FEDERAL UNION; IT MUST BE PRESERVED !"'
UTTERED IN 1830, IN PRESENCE OF THE ORIGINAL SECESSION CONSPIRATORS, TO THE ASSASSINATION
OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, AND THE END OF THE War.

WITH

FAMOUS WORDS AND DEEDS OF WOMAN,

SANITARY AND HOSPITAL SCENES, PRISON EXPERIENCES, &c.

By FRAZAR KIRKLAND,

AUTHOR OF THE "CYCLOPEDIA OF COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS ANECDOTES," ETC.

Beautifully Illustrated with over 300 Engravings.

PUBLISHED BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY.

HARTFORD PUBLISHING CO., HARTFORD, CONN.
NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA., AND CINCINNATI, O.

J. A. STODDARD & CO., CHICAGO, ILL.

ZEIGLER, MCCURDY & CO., ST. LOUIS, MO.

1866.

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ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1866, BY
HURLBUT, WILLIAMS & CO.,

IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES, FOR THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT.

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PREFACE:

AND

PLAN OF THE WORK.

Ir is safe to assume that no family-no intelligent man, or woman, indeed,—in the sisterhood of States composing our common country, will be willing to forego the possession of some portraiture of the more lively or personal sayings and doings which crowded themselves with such rapidity into each succeeding day of the GREAT FOUR YEARS' WAR: and, to supply that want, in the most fit and attractive form, this volume has been prepared, and is now offered,-in confident assurance of its value and popular reception,-to the AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Not only would it be a difficult task to find that man or woman whose mind has not been thus enlisted to the most intense degree of interest in the great procession of events during the period named, but the attempt would be almost equally futile to discover the family circle or individual upon whom those events have not fallen, either directly or indirectly, with a shock which memory will never efface nor time obliviate. And whilst, of these latter, it may be said the number is well nigh past enumeration, who have spilled their blood, sundered the nearest and dearest ties, endured wearisome and relentless persecution, and been brought to irretrievable penury and desolation; on the other hand, multitudes there are, who now find reason to rejoice, as surviving participants in the grand and triumphant, though bloody and appalling train of events, which, under an overruling Providence, have doomed forever this and all future similar attempts to destroy a Government founded in the blood and prayers of earth's wisest and best, and upon which the hopes of the world are centred.

GREAT COMPANY OF HEROIC MARTYRS! The Nation's acclaim of gratitude hails and blesses you, and the Song of Jubilee which you have put into the hearts of the people-yea, of thrice ten millions!-shall be taken up by coming generations, and in far distant lands now awaking to political consciousness, until every voice shall sing responsive to the Universal Anthem of Manhood Vindicated, Justice Regenerated, and Liberty Enthroned.

To exhibit and commemorate the course of events thus inaugurated in crimeful ambition and sectional heresy, and culminating in a New Birth, and in a larger, stronger, and more enduring Life to the Nation thus sought to be destroyed, the historian has gathered together and woven into thoughtful chapters the documentary materials and official details of the Struggle; the poet's genius has lent its inspiration to the charm of glowing and melodious rhyme; and the pen of romance has indited its most touching story of mingled pathos and horror, of principle tested, and suffering crowned with victory!

All these have their appropriate place,-their peculiar usefulness and adaptation. Future generations, scarcely less than the present, will read with absorbing avidity the historian's volume; the poet's ringing verse will not cease to be the keynote to warm the sympatlries and rouse the heart to greater love of patriotism, freedom and justice; and the more gushing sensibilities will find food in the well-wrought tale of heart-trials not simply "founded" on fact, but the delineation of gaunt fact itself, in its relation to individual cases innumerable.