A GALLOP AMONG AMERICAN SCENERY: OR, SKETCHES OF AMERICAN SCENES AND MILITARY ADVENTURE BY AUGUSTUS E. SILLIMAN. [Illustration] NEW-YORK: D. APPLETON & CO., 200 BROADWAY. PHILADELPHIA: GEO. S. APPLETON, 148 CHESNUT STREET. M DCCC XLIII. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, BY D. APPLETON AND CO., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York. H. LUDWIG, PRINTER, 72 Vesey-st., N. Y. TO BENJAMIN D. SILLIMAN, THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED, BY HIS BROTHER. A number of the following Sketches have appeared at intervals in the columns of the New-York American. CONTENTS. I. BANKS OF THE POTOMAC 1 II. THE COUNTRY PASTOR 8 III. MOUNT VERNON 13 IV. MEDICAL STUDENT 25 V. THE RESURRECTIONISTS 39 VI. OLD KENNEDY, NO. I. 44 VII. OLD KENNEDY, NO. II. 53 VIII. OLD KENNEDY, NO. III. 59 IX. OLD KENNEDY, NO. IV. 68 X. LEE’S PARTISAN LEGION 78 XI. HUDSON RIVER 107 XII. NIGHT ATTACK ON FORT ERIE 113 XIII. BATTLE OF LUNDY’S LANE 120 XIV. LAKE GEORGE AND TICONDEROGA 131 XV. MONTREAL 139 XVI. THE NUN 144 XVII. CATARACTS OF NIAGARA 148 XVIII. MOUNT HOLYOKE 155 XIX. WHITE MOUNTAINS 160 XX. BASS FISHING OFF NEWPORT 169 XXI. BRENTON’S REEF 176 XXII. OLD TRINITY STEEPLE 185 XXIII. LONG ISLAND SOUND 201 XXIV. GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY 220 APPENDIX 233 BANKS OF THE POTOMAC.