CONTENTS. The Four Parties - Their Candidates - Freedom of Speech Abridged - Secession Decreed - Lincoln Elected - Oh, for Andrew Jackson! - The Misunderstanding - Northern Doughfaces — Loyal - - PAGB 15 - The President's Error "Three Years Unless Sooner Discharged How Volunteer Companies were Raised - Filling the Quotas — What General Sherman Says - Recruiting Offices- Advertisements for Recruits A War Meeting in Roxbury A Typical War Meeting in the Country - A Small-Sized Patriot-Signing the HOW THE SOLDIERS WERE SHeltered. The Distinction Noted Between the Militia and the U. S. Volunteers- The Oath of Muster - Barracks Described — Sibley or Bell Tents — A or Wedge Tents - Spooning-Stockading - Hospital or Wall Tents Dog or Shelter Tent Described - Chumming - Pitching Shelters - Stockaded Shelters - Fireplaces — Chimneys — Door 43 Life in a Sibley - The Stove The Pastimes-Postage Stamps as - - - - The Plan of a Camp - Inside a Stockade - The Bunks - The Arrange- - - The Jonah as a Guardsman A Midnight Uproar - "Put him in the Guard-house"-The Jonah Spills Pea-Soup, and Coffee, and Ink - Always Cooking-Steps on the Rails - Tableau - Jonah as a Wood-chopper Beats - The Beat as a Fireman - Without Water, and Rations, and Money - His Letters Containing Money always Miscarry-Allotments - The Beat as a Guard Dodger - His Corporal Does the Duty-As a Fatigue Detail Horse-Burying as a Civilizer for Jonahs and Beats - The Detail for the Burial - The Over-worked Man - The Rheumatic Dodge- The Sick Man - The Chief Mourner- The Explosive Man - The - Their Quality-A List of Them Officers' Allowance - -- - "Hardtack" - - CHAPTER VIII. OFFENCES AND PUNISHMENTS. - - The Offences Enumerated-"Back Talk"- Absence from Camp - Its Occupations - - - Black List - - - Death of a Deserter Described - Death of a Spy Described - 108 143 A DAY IN CAMP. ASSEMBLY OF BUGLERS." TURN OUT!" "ASSEMBLY." Battery Manœuvres -Sham Fights - Drilling by Bugle Calls- "Dinner Call" "Retreat"-Scolding Time Assembly of Taps"Put out that Light!"-"Stop that Talking!". - A Scrap of Personal History - A Parent's Certificate - The Lot of a Recruit Abused by the Old Hands- - Flush with Money - A Practical Joke-Two Classes of Recruits - The Matter-of-fact Recruit a Final Success - The High-toned Recruits-Their Loud Uniform Scoffers at Government Rations - As Hostlers - The Awkward Squad - The Decline in the Quality of Recruits - Men of '61-2- Unschooled Soldiers - Hope Deferred "One Last Embrace"- French Leave Furloughs-Life in Home Camp- Family Knots- A Mother's Fond Solicitude — Galling Lessons of 198 Sending for a Box- A Specimen Address-A Typical List of Contents Fritters 217 Strictly Prohibited at First-Two Reasons Why-The Right and Wrong of It Innocent Sufferers - Unauthorized Foragers-The Destitution of Some Families - The Family Turnout - Wantonness at Fredericksburg · Authorized Foragers Their Plunder Foraging at Wilcox's Farm -Tobacco Foragers - The Cavalry in What was an Army Corps?- How the Army of the Potomac was Organized - Brigade and Division Formations- "All quiet along the Potomac " "Why don't the Army move?" were Composed - Their Number - Corps Badges -Their Origin -The Kearny Patch-Worn First by Officers, then by the Privates - Hooker's Scheme of Corps Badges - Its Extension to Improvements in Firearms-In War Vessels - Catch-penny Devices for the Soldiers - Combination Knife, Fork, and Spoon - Water Filterers Armor Vests and Greaves-Havelocks - Revolvers and Dirk Knives —“High-toned” Haversacks - Compact Writing-desks Smoking-caps and the Turkish Fez-Hatter's Caps Versus Gov- ernment Caps-The Numbering and Lettering of Knapsacks — Where Raised - Where the Government Obtained Them - What They were Used for - Compared with Horses - Mule Fodder- How a Mule Team was Composed-How it was Driven-How Mules were obtained from the Corral - The Black Snake and its Uses- An Incident - Mule Ears - His Pastimes-As a Kicker the Original Mugwump-What Josh Billings Knows about Him— His Kicking Range - How He was Shod-The Mule as a Singer-Under the Pack-saddle - The Mule as a Stubborn Fact - His Conduct under Fire Captured Mules at Sailor's Creek -What Became of All the The First General Hospitals - The First Medical Director - Army |