TO THE READER
Reading edition
To name the historians, biographers, memoir and narrative writers, diarists, and contributors of but a vivid page or two to the magazines of Historical Societies, to whom the writer of a story dealing with this period is indebted, would be to place below a very long list. In lieu of doing so, the author of this book will say here that many incidents which she has used were actual happenings, recorded by men and women writing of that through which they lived. She has changed the manner but not the substance, and she has used them because they were "true stories" and she wished that breath of life within the book. To all recorders of these things that verily happened, she here acknowledges her indebtedness and gives her thanks.
CONTENTS
I. The Botetourt Resolutions 1
II. The Hilltop 7
III. Three Oaks 19
IV. Greenwood 28
V. Thunder Run 45
VI. By Ashby's Gap 60
VII. The Dogs of War 72
VIII. A Christening 83
IX. Winchester 100
X. Lieutenant McNeil 112
XI. "As Joseph was a-Walking" 121
XII. "The Bath and Romney Trip" 135
XIII. Fool Tom Jackson 150
XIV. The Iron-clads 172
XV. Kernstown 193
XVI. Rude's Hill 207
XVII. Cleave and Judith 217
XVIII. McDowell 229
XIX. The Flowering Wood 247
XX. Front Royal 263
XXI. Steven Dagg 277
XXII. The Valley Pike 296
XXIII. Mother and Son 312
XXIV. The Foot Cavalry 331
XXV. Ashby 343
XXVI. The Bridge at Port Republic 354
XXVII. Judith and Stafford 371
XXVIII. The Longest Way Round 382
XXIX. The Nine-Mile Road 399
XXX. At the President's 412
XXXI. The First of the Seven Days 434
XXXII. Gaines's Mill 446
XXXIII. The Heel of Achilles 465
XXXIV. The Railroad Gun 481
XXXV. White Oak Swamp 498
XXXVI. Malvern Hill 516
XXXVII. A Woman 530
XXXVIII. Cedar Run 545
XXXIX. The Field of Manassas 557
XL. A Gunner of Pelham's 572
XLI. The Tollgate 580
XLII. Special Orders, No. 191 589
XLIII. Sharpsburg 602
XLIV. By the Opequon 616
XLV. The Lone Tree Hill 629
XLVI. Fredericksburg 639
XLVII. The Wilderness 655
XLVIII. The River 670
ILLUSTRATIONS
Stonewall Jackson Frontispiece
The Lovers 220
The Battle 456
The Vedette 642
From drawings by N. C. Wyeth.