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Descriptive List of Illustrations
- THE UNION SOLDIER . . . . . . .Frontispiece
Memorial statue at Newburyport, Massachusetts. - SLAVE QUARTERS 4
A log house, with log chimney; from a photograph. - A SOUTHERN HOME 9
House of Mr. Robertson, Columbia, South Carolina. - IN THE COTTON FIELDS 40
From a recent photograph. - A FIELD HAND 48
Woman going to work; from a recent photograph. - A STATION ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD . . . . 53
House of Squire Ambrose Hart, Brookfield, Ohio. - AN UNDERGROUND CONDUCTOR . . . . . . . 59
Portrait of Harriet Tubman, who led three hundred slaves to freedom. - JOHN BROWN 70
From a portrait now in Kansas. - THE CONTRABAND'S HOME . . . . . . . . . .77
One of the better Negro cabins, occupied at one time by Booker T. Washington. - A SLAVE MOTHER . . . . . . .85
From a photograph. - A SOUTHERN SCHOOLHOUSE . . . . . . 94
Schoolhouse of the Jeffersons and Randolphs at Tuckahoe, Virginia. - PICKANINNIES 98
Negro children; from a recent photograph. - CONTRABANDS 107
From a contemporary picture. - LINCOLN VISITING THE ARMY . . . . . . . . . u6
At Falmouth, Virginia; April, 1865. - CAMP SCENE . . . . . . . 122
From a war-time photograph. - A BAGGAGE WAGON . . . . . . . . 137
From the collection of The Loyal Legion of Massachusetts. - THE SCOUT . . . . . . . . . 148
From the collection of The Loyal Legion of Massachusetts. - A MULE TEAM . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Usual vehicle for carrying supplies for the Army; from the collection of The Loyal Legion of Massachusetts. - A PRIVATE . . . . . . .176
William McKinley, 23d Ohio Volunteers, then eighteen years old ; later President of the United States. - BIRTHPLACE OF GENERAL GRANT . . . . . . . . . 180
At Dayton, Ohio; from a photograph. - A MIDDY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
F. E. Chadwick, later Admiral of the United States Navy; taken about 1860. - TAD LINCOLN . . . . . . . . .193
Youngest son of the President; died during the Civil War. - BOY SOLDIERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Boys as young as sixteen sometimes enlisted in the Army. - A Boy's DRUM . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
.Used by a drummer boy in the service. - GENERAL CUSTER 212
Gallant cavalry officer; killed by Indians, 1876. - WAR ENVELOPES 222
Confederate envelopes; from the Lenox collection. - A BREAD OVEN . . . . . . . . 228
Used for making soft bread, much preferred by the soldiers to hard tack." - REBEL ARMY CROSSING THE POTOMAC . 235
For the invasion of Maryland, 1862. Forbes' etchings. - UNION PICKET LINE . . . . . . . . . . 250
From the collection of The Loyal Legion of Massachusetts. - SURRENDER OF GENERAL LEE 259
From the painting by Chappel. - FORAGING IN LOUISIANA 262
From Harper's Monthly, April, 1865 - AN ARMY POST OFFICE . . . . . . . . . 268
Communication was constantly kept up through moving post offices. - THE ENCAMPMENT AT NIGHT . . . . . . . . . . 274
From Harper's Monthly, December, 1864. - GENERAL SHERMAN . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Portrait of General William T. Sherman; taken after the Civil War. - A PONTOON BRIDGE . . . . . . . . . . .295
Much used in Virginia campaigns; from Forbes' etchings. - A MILITARY BRIDGE. . . . . . . . . 305
Famous bridge across the Chickahominy River, used in the Peninsular Campaign of 1862. - DESTROYING A RAILROAD . . . . . . . 313
Scenes on Sherman's March to the Sea; from a drawing by Darley. - OLD ABE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
War eagle, member of a Wisconsin regiment. - THE FIRST UNITED STATES IRONCLAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
A river steamer, cut down and iron-plated ; October, 1861. - MONITOR AND MERRIMAC . . . . . . . . . . 353
From a painting by Chappel. - ARRIVAL OF MAIL ON THE PASSAIC . . . . . 359
Showing the Contracted quarters on a United States Monitor. - DAVID FARRAGUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
In the shrouds—at the battle of Mobile, in 1864—from the collection of The Loyal Legion of Massachusetts. - A BIG SHIP GUN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
On board U. S. S. Miami; from the collection of The Loyal Legion of Massachusetts. - A QUARTERMASTER'S STEAMER . . . . . . . . . 379
Steamer Missionary, used to supply the Army of the Cumberland. - AN ARMY NURSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Miss Anna Lowell, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. - CONFEDERATE MONEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
State and Confederate Notes. - A NORTHERN BELLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Helen Marcia Hart, of Hartford, Ohio. - IN THE HOSPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
From Harper's Magazine, August, 1864. - A CONFEDERATE SPY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
A portrait of Belle Boyd, a famous woman scout.
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