"To a returned soldier nothing is more welcome than conversation touching his experience 'in the field' with his companions, and next to this a good book written by one who has known 'how it is himself,' and who recounts vividly the scenes of strife through which he has passed. Such a work is 'Three Years in the Federal Cavalry.' Captain Glazier's experiences are portrayed in a manner at once interesting to the veteran, and instructive and entertaining to those who have but snuffed the battle from afar. An old soldier will never drop this book for an instant, if he once begins it, until every word has been read. There is an air of truth pervading every page which chains the veteran to it until he is stared in the face with 'Finis.' The details and influences of camp-life, the preparations for active duty, the weary marches to the battle-field, the bivouac at night, the fierce hand-to-hand strife, the hospital, the dying volunteer, the dead one--buried in his blanket by the pale light of the moon, far, far away from those he loves--the defeat and victory--every scene, in fact, familiar to the eye and ear of the 'boy in blue,' is here most truthfully and clearly photographed, and the soldier is once more transported back to the days of the rebellion. Captain Glazier's style is easy and explicit. He makes no endeavor to be poetic or eloquent, but tells his story in a straightforward manner, occasionally, however, approaching eloquence in spite of himself. We cheerfully and earnestly commend 'Three Years in the Federal Cavalry' to the public as a most readable, entertaining and instructive volume." [Illustration: A Cavalry Bivouac] Among the manifold testimonials we have seen to the merits of this work, the following from the poetic pen of Mrs. Maud Louise Brainerd, of Elmira, New York, is at once beautiful and eloquent of praise, and must not therefore be omitted from the chaplet we are weaving for the brow of the 'soldier-author:' "Have you heard of our Union Cavalry, As Glazier tells the story? Of the dashing boys of the 'Cavalry Corps,' And their daring deeds of glory? "This modest volume holds it all, Their brave exploits revealing, Told as a comrade tells the tale, With all a comrade's feeling. "The Union camp-fires blaze anew, Upon these faithful pages, Anew we tremble while we read How hot the warfare rages. "We hear again the shock of arms, The cannon's direful thunder, And feel once more the wild suspense That then our hearts throbbed under. "The deeds of heroes live again Amid the battle crashes, As, Phoenix-like, the dead take form And rise from out their ashes.