+-------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber's note: | | | |Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.| | | +-------------------------------------------------+ THE DISPATCH CARRIER --AND-- MEMOIRS OF ANDERSONVILLE PRISON BY COMRADE WM. N. TYLER, COMPANY I, NINTH ILLINOIS CAVALRY, COMPANY B, NINETY-FIFTH ILLINOIS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. Price, 25 Cents. PORT BYRON, ILL.: PORT BYRON "GLOBE" PRINT. 1892. THE DISPATCH CARRIER --BY-- COMRADE WM. N. TYLER, CO. I, 9TH ILL. CAV.; CO. B, 95TH ILL. VOL. INF. A THRILLING DESCRIPTION OF THE ADVENTURES OF A DISPATCH CARRIER IN THE LATE WAR; THE CAPTURE, IMPRISONMENT, ESCAPE AND RE-CAPTURE OF A UNION SOLDIER--A COMPLETE NARRATIVE OF A SOLDIER'S INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE IN THE CIVIL WAR, FROM 1861 TO 1865, AS WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. SECOND EDITION. PORT BYRON, ILL.: PORT BYRON "GLOBE" PRINT. 1892. PREFACE. Books, as a general rule, have prefaces. I write a preface to this book, not because I think it necessary, but because it is customary. I did not keep a diary, and it may be that I have not given the right date every time, but there is nothing in this book but what is strictly true, and the most of it is my own personal experience and that of my comrades who participated in my adventures while a soldier. The reason I do not give the names of my comrades is because they are scattered to the four quarters of the globe, and I do not know where they are except a few who live neighbors to me, and I have no right to use their names without their consent. I will give a thrilling description of my experience as a dispatch carrier and finally my capture and imprisonment, escape and recapture, and will also give a complete description of being chased by blood hounds and other incidents too numerous to mention. Yours Truly, THE AUTHOR. Rapids City, Ills., 1892. CHAPTER I.