Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... He remembers almost getting between the lines at the skirmish of Falling Waters, when Lee's army -crossed the Potomac, after the battle of Gettysburg. The horses we had left seemed possessed to follow the troops, and we could only check them by running them into a barn yard as the cavalry passed. One of the most striking reminiscences of the war has been vividly recalled since the issuing of the first edition of this little book, when the writer incidentally met the subject of the same, in the person of Archibald Oden, who now lives near Martinsburg, W. Va. How very short a time it seems since one morning at a country school house all was excitement as the pupils were running to and fro and chatting in an undertone, a very unusual occurrence, of the absence of the teacher. Many of them had rightly guessed that he had joined the confederate army. Oden was such a midget of a man that one would have thought a few months of service would end his life; but a lean dog for a long chase was verified in his ease, as he fought all through the war, with the exception of the short time he taught school. He was captured in one of the early battles of the war, and jumped from the train at Ellicott City, making his way to his cousin, John Breathed, at Breathedsville. Breathed being a staunch Southerner, arranged to get him back into the Southern lines by getting him a school to teach for a wiile, and finally by a pass-word to cross the river. But unfortunately for Oden he was contracting a fever, which fact urged him the more to get back to friends and home, and as he reached the banks of the Potomac he sank beneath a tree, in the chill of the night, where he lay for three days with a raging fever. When he had sufficiently recovered to move on he...
