General Nelson's Scout

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Dunn Byron Archibald. General Nelson's Scout

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. THE QUARREL AND THE OATH

CHAPTER II. THE MEETING WITH NELSON

CHAPTER III. THE DAY AFTER BULL RUN

CHAPTER IV. THE TRIP TO NASHVILLE

CHAPTER V. FATHER AND SON

CHAPTER VI. THE FIGHT FOR THE ARMS

CHAPTER VII. THE FOILING OF A PLOT

CHAPTER VIII. A DARING DEED

CHAPTER IX. A LEAP FOR LIFE

CHAPTER X. IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY

CHAPTER XI. CRAZY BILL SHERMAN

CHAPTER XII. A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER

CHAPTER XIII. THE MEETING OF THE COUSINS

CHAPTER XIV. THE BATTLE OF MILL SPRINGS

CHAPTER XV. A FIGHT WITH GUERRILLAS

CHAPTER XVI. FORT DONELSON

CHAPTER XVII. AFTER THE BATTLE

CHAPTER XVIII "WE BOTH MUST DIE."

CHAPTER XIX. SHILOH

CHAPTER XX "MY SON! MY SON!"

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Throughout the following pages the threads of history and fiction are closely interwoven. The plot of the story is laid in the dark and stormy days of 1861, amid the waving trees and blue grass fields of Central Kentucky.

No State wept more bitter tears at the commencement of the dreadful struggle between the North and the South than Kentucky. With loving arms she tried to encircle both, and when she failed, in the language of one of her most eloquent sons, "So intense was her agony that her great heart burst in twain."

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"Good; now Frederic, you told me that you loved the Union."

"Yes, sir. I promised my mother on her deathbed ever to be faithful to the old flag."

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