CAMP-FIRE AND COTTON-FIELD:

SOUTHERN ADVENTURE

IN

TIME OF WAR.

LIFE WITH THE UNION ARMIES,

AND

RESIDENCE ON A LOUISIANA PLANTATION.

BY

THOMAS W. KNOX,

HERALD CORRESPONDENT

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

TO
THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PRESS,
WHO FOLLOWED THE
FORTUNES OF THE NATIONAL ARMIES,
AND RECORDED
THE DEEDS OF VALOR THAT SECURED THE PERPETUITY OF THE REPUBLIC,
THIS VOLUME
IS SYMPATHETICALLY INSCRIBED.

THE REBEL RAM ARKANSAS RUNNING THROUGH OUR FLEET.

TO THE READER.

A preface usually takes the form of an apology. The author of this volume has none to offer.

The book owes its appearance to its discovery of a publisher. It has been prepared from materials gathered during the Campaigns herein recorded, and from the writer's personal recollections.

Whatever of merit or demerit it possesses remains for the reader to ascertain. His judgment will be unprejudiced if he finds no word of promise on the prefatory page.

NEW YORK, September 15th, 1865.

ILLUSTRATIONS.