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  By Mary Johnston

  THE LONG ROLL. The first of two books dealing with the war between theStates. 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

  STONEWALL JACKSON]

  THE LONG ROLL

  BY MARY JOHNSTON

  WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

  BY N. C. WYETH

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  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 magazinesof Historical Societies, to whom the writer of a story dealing with thisperiod is indebted, would be to place below a very long list. In lieu ofdoing so, the author of this book will say here that many incidentswhich she has used were actual happenings, recorded by men and womenwriting of that through which they lived. She has changed the manner butnot the substance, and she has used them because they were "truestories" and she wished that breath of life within the book. To allrecorders of these things that verily happened, she here acknowledgesher 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

  ILLUSTRATIONS

  STONEWALL JACKSON _Frontispiece_

  THE LOVERS

  THE BATTLE

  THE VEDETTE

  From drawings by N. C. Wyeth.

  THE LONG ROLL