Si Klegg, Book 2
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John McElroy. Si Klegg, Book 2
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THROUGH MUD AND MIRE
CHAPTER II. SECOND DAY'S MARCH
CHAPTER III. STILL ON THE MARCH
CHAPTER IV. THE SUNSHINE OF LIFE
CHAPTER V. LINING UP FOR BATTLE
CHAPTER VI. BATTLE OF STONE RIVER
CHAPTER VII. AFTER THE FIRST DAY
CHAPTER VIII. A GLOOMY NEW YEAR'S DAY
CHAPTER IX. VICTORY AT LAST
CHAPTER X. THE VICTORIOUS ARMY
CHAPTER XI. WINTER QUARTERS
CHAPTER XII. ADDING TO THEIR COMFORT
CHAPTER XIII. "HOOSIER'S REST"
CHAPTER XIV. DEACON KLEGG'S SURPRISE
CHAPTER XV. DEACON KLEGG'S ARRIVAL IS MISTAKEN
CHAPTER XVI. IN A NEW WORLD
CHAPTER XVII. THE DEACON'S INITIATION
CHAPTER XVIII. THE DEACON IS SHOCKED HE IS CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS ON HIM
CHAPTER XIX. THE DEACON IS TROUBLED
CHAPTER XX. THE DEACON BUTTS IN
CHAPTER XXI. THE PERPLEXED DEACON
CHAPTER XXII. TRYING TO EDUCATE ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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"SHORTY" said Si Klegg, the morning after Christmas, 1862, as the 200th Ind. sullenly plunged along through the mud and rain, over the roads leading southward from Nashville, "they say that this is to be a sure-enough battle and end the war."
"Your granny's night-cap they do," answered Shorty crossly, as he turned his cap around back ward to stop the icy current from chasing down his backbone. "How many thousand times 's that bin stuffed into your ears? This is the forty-thousandth mile we've marched to find that battle that was goin' to end the war. And I'll bet we'll march 40,000 more. This war ain't goin' to end till we've scuffed the top off all the roads in Kentucky and Tennessee, and wore out God's patience and all the sole-leather in the North. I believe it's the shoe-makers that's runnin' this war in the interest o' their business."
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"We ain't no time for sich blamed nonsense," they growled. "We've got to git this here wagon up to the company, an' we'll have the devil's own time doin' it. Quit skylarkin' an' git to work."
They looked around for something with which to make pries. Every rail and stick within a quarter of a mile of the road was gone. They had been used up the previous Summer, when both armies had passed over the road.
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