This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...a farmhouse, demanding to see the title-deed of the owner, finding a "corner" therefrom, and then mounting his horse and dashing away, compass in hand, at the head of an escort of hard-riding dragoons, counting his horse's bounds as he goes, and so galloping along the line to the next " witness," as ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...a farmhouse, demanding to see the title-deed of the owner, finding a "corner" therefrom, and then mounting his horse and dashing away, compass in hand, at the head of an escort of hard-riding dragoons, counting his horse's bounds as he goes, and so galloping along the line to the next " witness," as the surveyors name it. Think of his noting every feature of the surface, the woods, the fields, the hills, the vales, the distances, and delineating everything, till a map to fight by grows beneath his steady hand. Think of his doing all this, in forty-eight hours, in a region where bullets might swarm any minute like bees, and where they did fly like hornets. And this, incredible as it looks, is only the plain story in brief of an important service--one that has in it a dash of danger and romance that almost turns the loving needle into the flashing sword. This, at least: he "prospected" a region that proved as rich as ariy other region yet, in Federal valor and Federal blood. There is hardly anything about the mechanism of war that so disappoints a civilian as his first glimpse of a modern fort. He thinks of towers and turrets and walls of stone; he sees a heap of reddish earth, tangled round the base with an ugly hedge of dry branches, and wrinkled with a deep trench. Wicker-work baskets--gabions, in military parlance--filled with earth, are ranged along the parapet; the smutty nose of a gun appears at breaks in the clay, here and there; he finds it fashioned like the crust of an immense chicken pie, though verily they that are in it are no chickens; a flagstaff, taken root in the hottest spot of the bare and trodden area, flaunts a flag; men lie asleep in the shadow of the wall; a solitary sentry...
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Octavo; VG-/no-DJ; Brown fabric spine with gilded text. Boards have shelf wear, rubbing on edges, tears on spine edges, bumping on corners, apart from that, binding strong; Textblock has light wear on edges and damp staining on bottom corner of edges, cracking on inner hinges, Ex-library bookplate on front paste down, otherwise, free of underlining/highlighting; pp 272. 1256677. Rockville Non-Retail Listings.
