XII. GRANT'S GREAT VICTORY

XIII. IN THE FOREST

XIV. THE DARK EVE OF SHILOH

XV. THE RED DAWN OF SHILOH

XVI. THE FIERCE FINISH OF SHILOH




THE GUNS OF SHILOH

CHAPTER I

IN FLIGHT


Dick Mason, caught in the press of a beaten army, fell back slowly with
his comrades toward a ford of Bull Run. The first great battle of
the Civil War had been fought and lost. Lost, after it had been won!
Young as he was Dick knew that fortune had been with the North until the
very closing hour. He did not yet know how it had been done. He did
not know how the Northern charges had broken in vain on the ranks of
Stonewall Jackson's men. He did not know how the fresh Southern troops
from the Valley of Virginia had hurled themselves so fiercely on the
Union flank. But he did know that his army had been defeated and was
retreating on the capital.