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THE
LOST DISPATCH.
GALESBURG, ILL.:
Galesburg Printing and Publishing Company.
1889.
Copyrighted 1889,
By Galesburg Printing and Publishing Company.
All rights reserved.
PREFACE.
In adding this account of the finding of the "Lost Dispatch" to the warliterature of our country, I do so without further preamble or prefacethan to say that all persons connected with this narrative appear on thefollowing pages under strictly fictitious names.
For purely personal reasons, reasons that seem to me right and proper, Istill desire to remain unknown. There are not more than twenty-fivepersons now living, who, on reading this account, will be able torecognize the writer. These I place on their honor not to reveal theirknowledge.
The Author.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| CHAPTER I. | 5 |
| CHAPTER II. | 14 |
| CHAPTER III. | 24 |
| CHAPTER IV. | 35 |
| CHAPTER V. | 44 |
| CHAPTER VI. | 52 |
| CHAPTER VII. | 60 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | 69 |
| CHAPTER IX. | 77 |
| CHAPTER X. | 84 |
| CHAPTER XI. | 91 |
| CHAPTER XII. | 99 |
| CHAPTER XIII. | 106 |
| CHAPTER XIV. | 112 |
THE LOST DISPATCH.
AN INCIDENT OF THE LATE WAR.
CHAPTER I.
The Union army lay impatiently waiting until the plans of the leader ofthe Rebel troops could be fathomed. His designs were shrouded in so muchmystery that the anxious watchers could not determine whether theinvasion of Maryland was only a feint to draw off the Union troops fromthe points they were protecting, or whether he really aimed to attackthe Northern cities.
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