Produced by David Widger SI KLEGG HIS TRANSFORMATION FROM A RAW RECRUIT TO A VETERAN. By John McElroy. Book One [Illustration: Title page ] [Illustration: Frontispiece ] PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE CO., WASHINGTON, D. C SECOND EDITION COPYRIGHT 1910 Contents: CHAPTER I. GOING TO WAR—SI KLEGG'S COMPLETE EQUIPMENT CHAPTER II. THE DEADLY BAYONET CHAPTER III. THE OLD CANTEEN CHAPTER IV. THE AWFUL HARDTACK CHAPTER V. FAT PORK—INDISPENSABLE BODY TIMBER FOR PATRIOTISM CHAPTER VI. DETAILED AS COOK—SI FINDS RICE ANOTHER INNOCENT CHAPTER VII. IN THE AWKWARD SQUAD CHAPTER VIII. ON COMPANY DRILL CHAPTER IX. SI GETS A LETTER CHAPTER X. SI AND THE DOCTORS CHAPTER XI. THE PLAGUE OF THE SOLDIER CHAPTER XII. A WET NIGHT CHAPTER XIII. SI "STRAGGLED" CHAPTER XIV. SI AND THE MULES CHAPTER XV. UNDER FIRE—SI HAS A FIGHT, CAPTURES A PRISONER CHAPTER XVI. ONE OF THE "NON-COMMISH" CHAPTER XVII. FORAGING ON THE WAY CHAPTER XVIII. A SUNDAY OFF CHAPTER XIX. A CLOSE CALL CHAPTER XX. "THE SWEET SABBATH" CHAPTER XXI. SI AND SHORTY WERE RAPIDLY LEARNING CHAPTER XXII. A NIGHT OF SONG PREFACE. "Si Klegg, of the 200th Ind., and Shorty, his Partner," were born more than 25 years ago in the brain of John McElroy, editor of The National Tribune, who invented the names and characters, outlined the general plan, and wrote a number of the chapters. Subsequently, the editor, having many other important things pressing upon his attention, called in an assistant to help on the work, and this assistant, under the direction and guidance of the editor, wrote some of these chapters. Subsequently, without the editor's knowledge or consent, the assistant adopted all the material as his own, and expanded it into a book which had a limited sale and then passed into the usual oblivion of shortlived subscription books. The sketches in this first number are the original ones published in The National Tribune in 1885-6, revised and enlarged somewhat by the editor. Those in the second and all following numbers appeared in The National Tribune when the editor, John McElroy, resumed the story in 1897, 12 years after the first publication, and continued it for the unprecedented period of seven years, with constantly growing interest and popularity. They gave "Si Klegg" a nation-wide and enduring celebrity. Gen. Lew Wallace, the foremost literary man of his day, pronounced "Si Klegg" the "great idyll of the war."