CHAPTER XI.

Snicker's Gap--Private Harry on the "Anaconda"--Not inclined to turn Boot-Black--"Oh! why did you go for a Soldier?"--The ex-News-Boy--Pigeon-hole Generalship on the March--The Valley of the Shenandoah--A Flesh Carnival--The Dutch Doctor on a Horse-dicker--An Old Rebel, and how he parted with his Apple-Brandy--Toasting the "Union"--Spruce Retreats, 137