Produced by David Edwards, Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: "GENERAL BUNKER."] FOUR YEARS A SCOUT AND SPY. "GENERAL BUNKER," ONE OF LIEUT. GENERAL GRANT'S MOST DARING AND SUCCESSFUL SCOUTS. BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE THRILLING ADVENTURES, NARROW ESCAPES, NOBLE DARING, AND AMUSING INCIDENTS IN THE EXPERIENCE OF CORPORAL RUGGLES DURING FOUR YEARS' SERVICE AS A SCOUT AND SPY FOR THE FEDERAL ARMY; EMBRACING HIS SERVICES FOR TWELVE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED GENERALS IN THE U. S. ARMY. By E. C. DOWNS, MAJOR OF THE TWENTIETH OHIO VETERAN VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. Illustrated. ZANESVILLE, OHIO: PUBLISHED BY HUGH DUNNE, NORTH FOURTH STREET, ADJOINING COURT HOUSE. 1866. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by E. C. DOWNS, In the Clerk's Office of the United States District Court, for the Southern District of Ohio. STEREOTYPED AT THE FRANKLIN TYPE FOUNDRY, CINCINNATI, O. TO LIEUTENANT-GENERAL U. S. GRANT, _Whose undaunted energy, heroic valor, superior generalship, and devotion to his country, have proved him_ "THE RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE," _And won for him_ A WORLD-WIDE FAME; _And to the gallant Officers and Soldiers who have nobly assisted in sustaining our glorious nationality by crushing the great rebellion,_ _THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED._ PREFACE. It was with much difficulty that I was induced to give to the public a narrative of my experience as a scout and spy. It was the intense interest with which the people have listened to my narratives, whenever I have related them, and their earnest entreaties to have them published, that have prevailed upon me to do so. I entered the army from purely patriotic motives. I had no vain ambition to gratify, but simply a desire to sustain and perpetuate the noble institutions that had been purchased by the blood of our fathers. I valued the cause of liberty as well worth all the sacrifice that it might cost to save it. I saw at once that the conflict was to be one involving great principles, and that in the end Truth and Justice _must prevail_.