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Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field, by Thomas W. Knox
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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
Author: Thomas W. Knox
Release Date: April 17, 2004 [EBook #12068]
Language: English
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CAMP-FIRE AND COTTON-FIELD: SOUTHERN ADVENTURE IN TIME OF WAR.
LIFE WITH THE UNION ARMIES, AND RESIDENCE ON A LOUISIANA PLANTATION.
BY THOMAS W. KNOX, HERALD CORRESPONDENT.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
1865.
TO THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PRESS, WHO FOLLOWED THE FORTUNES OF THE NATIONAL ARMIES, AND RECORDED THE DEEDS OF VALOR THAT SECURED THE PERPETUITY OF THE REPUBLIC, THIS VOLUME IS SYMPATHETICALLY INSCRIBED.
[Illustration: THE REBEL RAM ARKANSAS RUNNING THROUGH OUR FLEET.]
TO THE READER.
A preface usually takes the form of an apology. The author of this volume has none to offer.
The book owes its appearance to its discovery of a publisher. It has been prepared from materials gathered during the Campaigns herein recorded, and from the writer's personal recollections.
Whatever of merit or d