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Title: The scout and ranger: being the personal adventures of Corporal Pike, of the Fourth Ohio cavalry. As a Texan ranger, in the Indian wars, delineating western adventure; afterwards a scout and spy, in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas, under General Mitchell, Rosecrans, Stanley, Sheridan, Lytle, Thomas, Crook, and Sherman. Fully illustrating the secret service. Twenty-five full-page engravings
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Pike, James, 1834-1867
Subjects: Texas Rangers Indians of North America -- Wars 1815-1875 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Scouts and scouting United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Cincinnati, New York, J.R. Hawley & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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f comfort to his soul.Perhaps she is repelled with fearful oaths—but only to returnto him Avhen he is calmer, with redoubled kindness. Here, inthis ward, is a poor soldier dying. All their loving labors andpious prayers have been in vain ; the hand of death is on theirpatient. Perhaps they have watched and cared for monthsover him, and have had great hopes of his recovery ; but now,alas! they are called upon to perform the last kind offices forhim, and consign him to the grave. It is a sad trial to them;and as they cluster around the dying man, they tell him of abetter world, and their pra^-ers ascend to the throne of grace, forthe welfare of his soul. For weeks, they watched my almost hopeless case; for someof the Surgeons said I would die; but under their kind treat-ment, I rapidly recovered, and was soon able to travel andwanted to go to my regiment; but to pass through the Gov-ernment mill,—would be quite enough to kill me in my weikcondition, so I applied for a special order.
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CHAPTER XXII. AT HOME—FREXCH LEAVE. By the aid of Hon. C. A. White, General Wadsworth, andGeneral Martindale, I obtained permission to leave Washington,and go to Camp Chase, near Columbus, where my company wason parole, for they had been captured on the day that I was ex-changed—and while at Columbus I took French furlough, andmade a visit to my home, where I had a pleasant stay; but tookcare to report at Camp Chase on pay day. I was still veryweak, but improved rapidly, from the time I next struck hardtack. The Surgeon, in Washington, offered me a discharge, if Iwanted it, telling me I would never be able to do any dutyagain. I refused him, telling him I would soon get well, and goto the field again; and I lived to verify my word, for I havedone an immense amount of hard service since then. I went tothe .field again with my company, some time in March,- I860.Our route lay by way of the Ohio and Cumberland rivers; andas we landed and remained at the little town of Dover, for somet

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