Produced by Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net By Mary Johnston THE LONG ROLL. The first of two books dealing with the war between the States. With Illustrations in color by N. C. WYETH. LEWIS RAND. With Illustrations in color by F. C. YOHN. AUDREY. With Illustrations in color by F. C. YOHN. PRISONERS OF HOPE. With Frontispiece. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD. With 8 Illustrations by HOWARD PYLE, E. B. THOMPSON, A. W. BETTS, and EMLEN MCCONNELL. THE GODDESS OF REASON. _A Drama._ HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK [Illustration: STONEWALL JACKSON] THE LONG ROLL BY MARY JOHNSTON WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY N. C. WYETH [Illustration: publishers icon] HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK: THE RIVERSIDE PRESS CAMBRIDGE 1911 COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY MARY JOHNSTON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published May 1911_ To the Memory of JOHN WILLIAM JOHNSTON MAJOR OF ARTILLERY, C. S. A. AND OF JOSEPH EGGLESTON JOHNSTON GENERAL, C. S. A. TO THE READER To name the historians, biographers, memoir and narrative writers, diarists, and contributors of but a vivid page or two to the magazines of Historical Societies, to whom the writer of a story dealing with this period is indebted, would be to place below a very long list. In lieu of doing so, the author of this book will say here that many incidents which she has used were actual happenings, recorded by men and women writing of that through which they lived. She has changed the manner but not the substance, and she has used them because they were "true stories" and she wished that breath of life within the book. To all recorders of these things that verily happened, she here acknowledges her indebtedness and gives her thanks. CONTENTS I. THE BOTETOURT RESOLUTIONS II. THE HILLTOP III. THREE OAKS IV. GREENWOOD V. THUNDER RUN VI. BY ASHBY'S GAP VII. THE DOGS OF WAR VIII. A CHRISTENING IX. WINCHESTER X. LIEUTENANT MCNEIL XI. AS JOSEPH WAS A-WALKING XII. "THE BATH AND ROMNEY TRIP" XIII. FOOL TOM JACKSON XIV. THE IRON-CLADS XV. KERNSTOWN XVI. RUDE'S HILL XVII. CLEAVE AND JUDITH XVIII. MCDOWELL XIX. THE FLOWERING WOOD XX. FRONT ROYAL XXI. STEVEN DAGG XXII. THE VALLEY PIKE XXIII. MOTHER AND SON XXIV. THE FOOT CAVALRY XXV. ASHBY XXVI. THE BRIDGE AT PORT REPUBLIC XXVII. JUDITH AND STAFFORD XXVIII. THE LONGEST WAY ROUND XXIX. THE NINE-MILE ROAD XXX. AT THE PRESIDENT'S XXXI. THE FIRST OF THE SEVEN DAYS XXXII. GAINES'S MILL XXXIII. THE HEEL OF ACHILLES XXXIV. THE RAILROAD GUN XXXV. WHITE OAK SWAMP XXXVI. MALVERN HILL XXXVII. A WOMAN XXXVIII. CEDAR RUN XXXIX. THE FIELD OF MANASSAS XL. A GUNNER OF PELHAM'S XLI. THE TOLLGATE XLII. SPECIAL ORDERS, NO. 191 XLIII. SHARPSBURG XLIV. BY THE OPEQUON XLV. THE LONE TREE HILL XLVI. FREDERICKSBURG XLVII. THE WILDERNESS XLVIII. THE RIVER