The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Blue and the Gray; Or, The Civil War as Seen by a Boy
Title: The Blue and the Gray; Or, The Civil War as Seen by a Boy
Author: Annie Randall White
Illustrator: Frank Beard
Release date: April 14, 2014 [eBook #45382]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024
Language: English
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THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
OR,
THE CIVIL WAR AS SEEN BY A BOY
A Story of Patriotism and Adventure in Our War for the Union
By A. R. White
With Over 150 War Photographs And Original Drawings
Illustrated by Frank Beard
“We live for freedom; let us clasp each other by the hand;
In love and unity abide, a firm, unbroken band;
We cannot live divided—the Union is secure!
God grant that while men live and love, this nation may endure.”
—DR. FRED A. PALMER,
Original
Original
Original
Original
Original
1898
BY
K. T. BOLAND.
TO THE SONS AND THE DAUGHTERS OF THE VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR;
TO THOSE WHO FOUGHT ITS BATTLES AND LIVED TO INSTIL ITS LESSONS OF PATRIOTISM IN THE HEARTS OF THEIR CHILDREN; TO THOSE OF ALL CLIMES WHO LOVE LIBERTY AND THE NOBLE LAND WHERE FREEDOM HAD HER BIRTH; TO THE MEMORY OF THE HEROES OF NORTH AND SOUTH WHO FELL IN BATTLE; TO ONE UNITED COUNTRY,
BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH, FOREVER ONE IN ALL NOBLE AND LOFTY PURPOSES AND AIMS; TO THE HOMES OF AMERICA; THIS BOOK IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED BY YOURS SINCERELY
THE AUTHOR.
CALEB B. SMITH, Secretary of Interior.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of Navy.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
EDWARD BATES, Attorney-General.
SIMON P. CHASE, Secretary of Treasury.
MONTGOMERY BLAIR, Postmaster-General.
JUDAH P. BENJAMIN, Attorney-General, War, State.
ROBERT TOOMBS, Secretary of State.
LEROY P. WALKER, Secretary of War.
STEPHEN R. MALLORY, Secretary of the Navy.
CHRISTOPHER G. MEMMINGER. Secretary of Treasury.
JOHN H. REAGAN, Postmaster-General.
HE scenes of the war, related by a boy who followed the flag from the beginning to the end of the war, must carry with them a sense of accuracy, for they are the recollections of actual service. Those books which have been written upon the war have, with very few exceptions, been penned from the standpoint of mature opinions and experiences. In this work the views and struggles of a boy who went into the army, from an honest desire to do right, are portrayed. To fight was abhorrent to his nature, but there was a call for men who were willing to defend the institutions of his beloved land. And that defense was only possible through bloodshed and conflict. Tenderly instructed by a loving and gentle mother, whose early home was in the South, it was almost a wrenching of her cherished opinions, to give him up to fight against her kindred. But her boy did not enter the contest with a thought of conquering his fellow-beings, but as a duty which, though painful, must be performed. How that dear mother gave him to his country, how he marched, and fought, and endured hardships, are here set forth in the colors of truth, for it is a true story.
And that the boys and girls of to-day and their fathers and mothers may follow the varying fortunes of the boy of our story, thus ushered into the conflict, with pleasure and profit, is the heartfelt hope of
The Author.
CONTENTS
THE CIVIL WAR AS SEEN BY A BOY.
CHAPTER I. THE BEGINNING OF WAR.
CHAPTER II. ORDERED TO WASHINGTON.
CHAPTER III. RALPH'S FIRST BATTLE.
CHAPTER IV. RALPH DOES PICKET DUTY.
CHAPTER V. RALPH AT HEADQUARTERS.
CHAPTER VII. THE DISASTER AT BALL'S BLUFF.
CHAPTER VIII. THE ARMY IN WINTER QUARTERS.
CHAPTER XV. RALPH IS SENT HOME.
CHAPTER XVII. RALPH RE-ENLISTS.
CHAPTER XVIII. CROSSING THE RIVER.
CHAPTER XIX. THE PROCLAMATION.
EVENTS FOLLOWING THE CIVIL WAR.
EDISON, THE GENIUS OF THE AGE.
THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1896.
DESTRUCTION OF CERVERA'S FLEET.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
A Business Street in Manila..............................389
A Cuban Home.............................................371
Allan Pinkerton and Secret Service Officers..............073
An Alexandria Anti-bellum Relic..........................069
Appomattox Court House...................................227
Artillery Going to the Front.............................126
Asking for Furlough......................................095
A Southern Mansion.......................................086
A Stolen Child...........................................338
A Sugar Factory in Manila................................377
Attack on Fredericksburg.................................145
Attack on the Mail.......................................337
A Typical Colored Boy....................................080
Battle of Bull Run.......................................051
Battle of Chancellorsville...............................298
Battle of Malvern Hill-Lee's Attack......................076
Battle of Phillipi.......................................046
Battle of Shiloh.........................................194
Bearing Dispatches.......................................106
Burning of Chicago.......................................328
Burnside Bridge..........................................135
Burying Old Bill.........................................142
Camp Douglas.............................................159
Camp Fire Songs..........................................117
Camp Life-In the Kitchen.................................071
Camp Life on Monday......................................077
Camp of the Army of the Potomac..........................104
Capitol at Richmond......................................065
Captain John L Worden Commanding the Monitor.............175
Capture of a White Child.................................340
Caring for the Dead......................................055
Charge of a Confederate Cavalry at Trevalian Station.....221
Colonel John S Mosby and a Group of His Raiders..........211
Confederate Soldiers' Monument—Richmond, Va..............259
Crossing Big Black River.................................191
Custer's Last Charge.....................................347
Death of Sitting Bull....................................343
Decoration Day—Gettysburg................................262
Destruction of Cervera's Fleet...........................385
Devil's Den..............................................208
Diamond Joe and Aunt Judah When Young....................082
“Do Any of You Know Peter Hall?”.........................123
Drinking from the Same Canteen...........................245
Earthquake at Charleston.................................334
Episcopal Church at Alexandria, Va.......................088
Fairfax Court House......................................027
Fall of General James B McPherson near Atlanta...........215
Foraging.................................................072
Foraging.................................................197
Fort Donelson............................................161
Fortress Monroe..........................................022
Fort Sumter..............................................019
Franklin Buchanan Commanding the Merrimac................172
Fremont's Body Guard.....................................101
Fun in Camp..............................................119
Garfield Lying in State..................................314
Garfield's Struggle with Death...........................316
General Grant's Birthplace...............................309
General Hancock and Friends..............................153
General Lee on His Favorite Horse........................295
General Longstreet Wounded by His Own Men................213
General Meade's Headquarters.............................298
General Miles............................................393
Gettysburg Cemetery Gate.................................212
Grant's Tomb-New York....................................258
Grant Breaking a Horse...................................311
Grant Plowing at the Age of 11...........................310
Hailing the Troops.......................................064
Harper's Ferry...........................................040
Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia.........................323
House Where Lee Surrendered..............................242
Indian Chief.............................................349
Indian Dance.............................................339
Indian Schools of To-day.................................341
Indian Scout.............................................350
Interior of Hospital.....................................249
In Winter Quarters.......................................105
Joe Hiding in the Woods..................................083
John Brown's Capture.....................................042
Location of the Union Troops—Henry House.................053
Making a Military Road Through a Swamp...................198
Map-Battlefields of the Great Civil War..................147
Map-Loyal and Seceding States............................052
Map—Showing the Seat of War..............................132
Map-The Shenandoah Valley................................121
McLean House.............................................232
National Cemetery at Richmond, Va........................217
Negro Village in Georgia.................................036
Off for the War..........................................018
Old Aunt Judah...........................................081
Old City Hall-New Orleans................................113
On Board the Hartford-Battle of Mobile Bay...............168
On the March.............................................039
Picket Off Duty Forever..................................059
Proposed Monument to Jefferson Davis.....................260
Portrait-Alexander H Stephens............................024
Portrait-Abraham Lincoln.................................236
Portrait-Admiral Cervera.................................381
Portrait-Brigadier-General Neal Dow......................222
Portrait-Buffalo Bill, a Foe of the Indians..............342
Portrait-Belle Boyd......................................257
Portrait-Charles A Dana..................................133
Portrait-Captain Charles Wilke...........................203
Portrait-Capt Raphael Semmes.............................218
Portrait-Commander David D Porter........................186
Portrait-Christopher Carson..............................351
Portrait-Colonel Charles W Le Gendre.....................214
Portrait-Florence Nightingale............................255
Portrait-Frances Willard.................................358
Portrait-General Ambrose E Burnside......................125
Portrait-General George B McClellan......................047
Portrait-General George E Meade..........................150
Portrait-General Grant...................................163
Portrait-General Grant...................................231
Portrait-General John A Dix..............................025
Portrait-General James Longstreet, C S A.................062
Portrait-General Joseph E Johnston.......................090
Portrait-General John C Fremont..........................100
Portrait-General John A Logan............................190
Portrait-General James B McPherson.......................196
Portrait-James Abram Garfield............................315
Portrait-General Fitz Hugh Lee...........................399
Portrait-General Lew Wallace.............................127
Portrait-General Oliver O Howard.........................220
Portrait-General P T G Beauregard........................045
Portrait-General Phil Kearney............................139
Portrait-General Pickett.................................209
Portrait-General Rosecrans...............................136
Portrait-General Stonewall Jackson.......................182
Portrait-General Winfield Scott..........................030
Portrait-General Winfield Hancock........................152
Portrait-General William Tecumseh Sherman................189
Portrait-General Wade Hampton............................205
Portrait-General Robert Anderson.........................292
Portrait-Harriet B Stowe.................................206
Portrait-Henry Ward Beecher..............................021
Portrait-Hobson..........................................383
Portrait-Honorable Charles Sumner........................087
Portrait-Horace Greeley..................................204
Portrait-James Murray Mason..............................020
Portrait-John Slidell....................................020
Portrait-John Brown......................................041
Portrait-Jennie Wade.....................................209
Portraits (from Photographs)-John M Morgan and Wife......216
Portrait-John A Winslow..................................219
Portrait-John B Gordon...................................229
Portrait-Jefferson Davis.................................230
Portrait-John Wilkes Booth...............................237
Portrait-Lee's Surrender.................................239
Portrait-General Montgomery Meigs........................026
Portrait-Major-General Philip H Sheridan.................226
Portrait-Miss Nellie M Taylor............................251
Portrait-Miss Hattie A Dada..............................252
Portrait-Mrs Mary D Wade.................................252
Portrait-Miss Clara Barton...............................253
Portrait-Major-General Fitzhugh Lee, C S A...............094
Portrait-Miss Louisa M Alcott............................256
Portrait-Mrs Mary Livermore..............................254
Portrait-Miss Margaret Breckenridge......................256
Portrait-Robert E Lee....................................078
Portrait-Rear Admiral David G Farragut...................186
Portrait-Thomas A Edison.................................325
Portrait—Walter Q Gresham................................223
Portrait—William H Seward................................320
Portrait-William McKinley................................356
Portrait-William J Bryan.................................356
Pickets Examining Passes.................................175
Prayer in Stonewall Jackson's Camp.......................183
Prayer at the Funeral of the Maine's Victims.............369
Punishment in the Army...................................206
Ralph and the Officer....................................029
Ralph's Good-Bye.........................................032
Recruiting Office, New York City Hall Park...............181
Rejoicing................................................066
Review of Soldiers-Washington............................241
Ruins of the House.......................................085
Sharp Shooters...........................................107
Sheridan Reconnoitering at Five Forks....................224
Siege Gun................................................020
Soldiers Near Santiago...................................395
The Art Palace, World's Fair.............................353
The Battle of Atlanta, Ga................................097
Stand of Flags...........................................170
The Death of Ellsworth...................................043
The Frigate Cumberland Rammed by the Merrimac............173
The Sister's Farewell....................................277
Thomas A Edison and His Talking Machine..................326
Troops Going to Manila...................................373
Uncle Ned................................................149
United States Military Wagon.............................035
Warning the Inhabitants..................................332
Wesley Merritt and His Staff.............................199
West Point...............................................293
What Caused the War-The Negro and Cotton.................057
Wounding of General Stonewall Jackson....................178