Transcriber's note: Two quotes are opened with a double quotation mark but are not closed. These are presented as they appear in the original text. The following misprints have been corrected: "comand" corrected to "command" (page 8) "setled" corrected to "settled" (page 21) "muttton" corrected to "mutton" (page 33) "proceded" corrected to "proceeded" (page 36) "felows" corrected to "fellows" (page 41) "semed" corrected to "seemed" (page 44) "nineteeen" corrected to "nineteen" (page 45) "Hil's" corrected to "Hill's" (page 75) "gettinge" corrected to "getting" (page 76) "at" corrected to "a" (page 79) "aound" corrected to "arround" (page 121) "Fedtral" corrected to "Federal" (page 127) "Warrren" corrected to "Warren" (page 130) "atention" corrected to "attention" (page 132) "iminent" corrected to "imminent" (page 138) "bags" corrected to "bugs" (page 181) "sharp-shooters's" corrected to "sharp-shooter's" (page 183) "hostilites" corrected to "hostilities" (page 185)