Excerpt from The Reading Club: 50 Selections in Prose and Poetry O'er which our Northern squadrons faced The hard-pressed Southern ranks, And where Hood's surly ambush crouched Along the river's marge, The pickets brought a prisoner in, Captured in some brief charge. This was a stripling trumpeter, A mere lad, fitter far To grace some loving mother's hearth Than these grim scenes Of war; But still with proud defiant inien He bore his soldier's crest, And smiled above the shattered arm That hung upon his breast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.