The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign

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Altsheler Joseph Alexander. The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign

CHAPTER I. IN FLIGHT

CHAPTER II. THE MOUNTAIN LIGHTS

CHAPTER III. THE TELEGRAPH STATION

CHAPTER IV. THE FIGHT IN THE PASS

CHAPTER V. THE SINGER OF THE HILLS

CHAPTER VI. MILL SPRING

CHAPTER VII. THE MESSENGER

CHAPTER VIII. A MEETING AT NIGHT

CHAPTER IX. TAKING A FORT

CHAPTER X. BEFORE DONELSON

CHAPTER XI. THE SOUTHERN ATTACK

CHAPTER XII. GRANT’S GREAT VICTORY

CHAPTER XIII. IN THE FOREST

CHAPTER XIV. THE DARK EVE OF SHILOH

CHAPTER XV. THE RED DAWN OF SHILOH

CHAPTER XVI. THE FIERCE FINISH OF SHILOH

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“You’ve been up in the balloon,” said Warner. “It was a rare chance.”

“Burnin’ where they ought not to be,” said Whitley—no gulf was yet established between commissioned and non-commissioned officers in either army. “Little Mac may be a great organizer, as they say, but you can keep on organizin’ an’ organizin’, until it’s too late to do what you want to do.”

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“Guess you’re right. Arithmetic shows at least one hundred per cent of probability in favor of your suggestion.”

All that afternoon and into the night the train rattled and moved into the west. The beautiful rolling country was left behind, and they were now among the mountains, whirling around precipices so sharply that often the sleeping boys were thrown from the seats of the coaches. But they were growing used to hardships. They merely climbed back again upon the seats, and were asleep once more in half a minute.

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