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Title: My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field

Author: Charles Carleton Coffin

Release Date: April 21, 2009 [EBook #28571]

Language: English

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MY DAYS AND NIGHTS
ON THE
BATTLE-FIELD.

BY

CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN,

AUTHOR OF "STORY OF LIBERTY," "BOYS OF '76," "OUR NEW WAY
ROUND THE WORLD," "FOLLOWING THE FLAG,"
"WINNING HIS WAY," ETC.

BOSTON

DANA ESTES AND COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

_Copyright_, 1887,

BY ESTES AND LAURIAT

[Illustration: "The brigade goes down the road upon the run."]

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY. PAGE

TO THE YOUTH OF THE UNITED STATES. 1
Chap. I. HOW THE REBELLION CAME ABOUT 3
II. THE GATHERING OF A GREAT ARMY 22
III. THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN 37
IV. THE CAPTURE OF FORT HENRY 65
V. THE CAPTURE OF FORT DONELSON 89
Thursday 98
Friday 104
Saturday 111
VI. THE SURRENDER 132
VII. THE ARMY AT PITTSBURG LANDING 153
VIII. THE BATTLE OF PITTSBURG LANDING
From Daybreak till Ten o'clock 171
From Ten o'clock till Four 197
Sunday Evening 205
Monday 210
IX. EVACUATION OF COLUMBUS 229
X. OPERATIONS AT NEW MADRID 237
XI. OPERATION