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Title: Camp-fire and cotton-field: southern adventure in time of war. Life with the Union armies, and residence on a Louisiana plantation
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Cotton growing -- Louisiana United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives Missouri -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Mississippi River Valley -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York, Blelock and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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first to moistenthat dust, or whose life will have passed away beforethe action is over. So on the eve of that first battlein Missouri, as I reclined in the cabin of our flag-boat,and saw the surgeons busy with their preparations forthe coming day ; as I saw them bring to light all thedreadful implements of their trade, and arrange them 46 BLOODY INSTRUCTIONS. in readiness for sudden use—a coldness crept overme, and I fully realized we had earnest work beforeus. Since that time I have witnessed many a battle,many a scene of preparation and of bloody work withknife and saw and bandage, hut I have never expe-rienced a chill like that I felt on that#early day of theRebellion. The war has made us familiar with horrors. Thatwhich once touched us to the heart is now passed overwith scarce a moments thought. Our nerves have beenhardened, our sensibilities blunted, our hearts steeledagainst suffering, in the terrible school through whichwe have passed. HX m C T> mZ -rO Oc CD oc m< i-m
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THENEWYOR; PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILDfn FOUNDATIONS, THE BATTLE DT PROGRESS. 47 CHAPTER IV. THE FIRST BATTLE IN MISSOURI. Moving up the River.—A Landing Effected.—The Battle.—PrecipitousRetreat of the Rebels.—Spoiling a Captured Camp.—Rebel FlagsEmblazoned with the State Arms.—A Journalists Outfit.—A Chap-lain of the Church Militant.—A Mistake that might have been Un-fortunate.—The People of Booneville.—Yisiting an Official.—Bank-ing-House Loyalty.—Preparations for a Campaign. Daybreak on the 17tli found us slowly moving upthe riyer toward Booneville. General Lyon sat forwardof the steamers cabin, closely scanning both banks ofthe stream. Four miles below the town his glass soughtout two pieces of artillery, partially concealed in aclump of trees, and trained upon the channel by whichwe were to pass. At once our engines were reversed,and the boats moved back to a landing about eightmiles below Booneville. A little before seven oclockwe were on shore, a

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