Mary Johnston's The Long Roll is a historical novel, the first of two books about the American Civil War. It follows the conflict in Virginia and the campaigns of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, drawing on real wartime accounts. It offers a vivid, human-scale portrait of soldiers and civilians in a divided nation.
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Opening of the book
By Mary Johnston THE LONG ROLL. The first of two books dealing with the war between the States. 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. Bette, and Eileen McConnell. THE GODDESS OF REASON. A Drama HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Boston and New York STONEWALL JACKSON STONEWALL JACKSON THE LONG ROLL BY MARY JOHNSTON WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY N. C. WYETH publishers icon 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 magazines of Historical Societies, to whom the writer of a story dealing with this period is indebted, would be to place below a very long list. In lieu of doing so, the author of this book will say here that many incidents which she has used were actual happenings, recorded by men and women writing of that through which they lived. She has changed the manner but not the
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