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Excerpt from The Flying, Gray-Haired Yank, or the Adventures of a Volunteer: A Personal Narrative of Thrilling Experiences as an Army Courier, a Volunteer Captain, a Prisoner of War, a Fugitive From Southern Dungeons, a Guest Among the Contrabands and Unionists, and Finally, a Skirmisher at the Very Front at Appomattox
Thb title of this book, ' The Flying, Gray Haired Yank, was suggested to the author by a second christening received from his astounded captors, on seeing the rapid flight made by one so gray on the night of his second escape. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.