CONTENTS.

                   CHAPTER I.
   The clouds gather and break - Southern sympathy-
A divided community -My service in the Mexican War
-The Spencer Grays offer their services -The Battle of
Buena Vista-Fort Sumter fired upon-The shock and
agony thereat-The Union sentiment aroused-Gov.
Morton organizes the Indiana Legion-My appoint-
ment as colonel in it-The making of soldiers com-
menced - Inward struggles - Gov. Morton consulted -
Waiting for my turn-The Twenty-third go to the field
- A borrowed sword - More inward struggles - Duty
prevails - Appointed colonel Thirty-eighth Indiana Vol-
unteers....                                    JI

                  CHAPTER II.
  Gen. Robert Anderson in command at Louisville-
Buckner's threatened invasion -The Thirty-eighth joins
Sherman at Lebanon Junction-Wade Rolling Fork,
march upon Elizabethtown, Ky., and drive out rebel cav-
alry there - We take position at Muldraugh Hill - Short
rations and incomplete equipments-The long roll-
To arms-A false alarm-A council of war in which
no counsel was asked-Another interview with Gen. Sher-
man in which I do the talking -Traits of Sherman -The
column advances to Bacon Creek -We enter upon the
business of making soldiers-The typhoid fever obstructs
-We move on to Green River-Willick's Thirty-second
Indiana has a fight-A Texas regiment under Col. Terry
defeated-Col. Terry killed-Whipped by the Dutch
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