have given your name to such an infamous and causeless rebellion?" I
can only answer: It is far easier to say what a homeless youth,
hunted for his life for two nights and a day, until exhausted,
faint, and friendless, in the midst of an excited and armed
populace, _should do_, than it was in the circumstances to do what
will stand the test of a high, calm, and _safe_ patriotism. Let none
condemn until he can lay his hand upon his heart and say, "No
conceivable pressure could overcome me."




CHAPTER II.

INFANTRY SERVICE.

Character of our Regiment. -- No Escape. -- A Fixed Resolve.
-- Randolph. -- Camp Life. -- Sabbath. -- Father Daly. --
Washing. -- Fort Wright. -- Grand Defect. -- Rations. --
Stolen Waters. -- Mutiny. -- Sentence. -- Fort Pillow. --
Slaves. -- Aiding the Rebellion. -- Deep Earnestness of the
People. -- Strength of the Fort. -- "Pillow's Trot Line." --
No Pay, and the Result. -- Gen. Pillow described. --
Columbus, Ky. -- Hard Work. -- Pillow in the Ditch. -- The
Batteries. -- Torpedoes. -- Battle of Belmont. -- False
Report. -- Troops cross. -- Untimely Joking. -- The Tide of
Battle. -- A Charge. -- Cruelty. -- Victory. -- Why? --
Loss. -- Burial of the Dead. -- How Not to Kill. --
Accident. -- The Military Bishop.