And that the boys and girls of to-day and their fathers and mothers may follow the varying fortunes of the boy of our story, thus ushered into the conflict, with pleasure and profit, is the heartfelt hope of The Author. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Abraham Lincoln and His Cabinet.........................008 A Business Street in Manila.............................389 A Cuban Home............................................371 Allan Pinkerton and Secret Service Officers.............073 An Alexandria Anti-bellum Relic.........................069 Appomattox Court House..................................227 Artillery Going to the Front............................126 Asking for Furlough.....................................095 A Southern Mansion......................................086 A Stolen Child..........................................338 A Sugar Factory in Manila...............................377 Attack on Fredericksburg................................145 Attack on the Mail......................................337 A Typical Colored Boy...................................080 Battle of Bull Run......................................051 Battle of Chancellorsville..............................298 Battle of Malvern Hill-Lee's Attack.....................076 Battle of Phillipi......................................046 Battle of Shiloh........................................194 Bearing Dispatches......................................106 Burning of Chicago......................................328 Burnside Bridge.........................................135 Burying Old Bill........................................142 Camp Douglas............................................159 Camp Fire Songs.........................................117 Camp Life-In the Kitchen................................071 Camp Life on Monday.....................................077 Camp of the Army of the Potomac.........................104 Capitol at Richmond.....................................065 Captain John L Worden Commanding the Monitor............175 Capture of a White Child................................340 Caring for the Dead.....................................055 Charge of a Confederate Cavalry at Trevalian Station... 221 Colonel John S Mosby and a Group of His Raiders.........211 Confederate Soldiers' Monument--Richmond, Va............259 Crossing Big Black River................................191 Custer's Last Charge....................................347 Death of Sitting Bull...................................343 Decoration Day--Gettysburg..............................262 Destruction of Cervera's Fleet..........................385 Devil's Den.............................................208 Dewey's Victorious Battle...............................375 Diamond Joe and Aunt Judah When Young...................082 “Do Any of You Know Peter Hall?”........................123 Drinking from the Same Canteen..........................245