



Produced by David Widger





SI KLEGG

HIS TRANSFORMATION FROM A RAW RECRUIT TO A VETERAN.


By John McElroy.


Book One


[Illustration: Title page ]

[Illustration: Frontispiece ]


PUBLISHED BY

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE CO.,

WASHINGTON, D. C




SECOND EDITION

COPYRIGHT 1910


Contents:

CHAPTER I.        GOING TO WAR--SI KLEGG'S COMPLETE EQUIPMENT
CHAPTER II.       THE DEADLY BAYONET
CHAPTER III.      THE OLD CANTEEN
CHAPTER IV.       THE AWFUL HARDTACK
CHAPTER V.        FAT PORK--INDISPENSABLE BODY TIMBER FOR PATRIOTISM
CHAPTER VI.       DETAILED AS COOK--SI FINDS RICE ANOTHER INNOCENT
CHAPTER VII.      IN THE AWKWARD SQUAD
CHAPTER VIII.     ON COMPANY DRILL
CHAPTER IX.       SI GETS A LETTER
CHAPTER X.        SI AND THE DOCTORS
CHAPTER XI.       THE PLAGUE OF THE SOLDIER
CHAPTER XII.      A WET NIGHT
CHAPTER XIII.     SI "STRAGGLED"
CHAPTER XIV.      SI AND THE MULES
CHAPTER XV.       UNDER FIRE--SI HAS A FIGHT, CAPTURES A PRISONER
CHAPTER XVI.      ONE OF THE "NON-COMMISH"
CHAPTER XVII.     FORAGING ON THE WAY
CHAPTER XVIII.    A SUNDAY OFF
CHAPTER XIX.      A CLOSE CALL
CHAPTER XX.      "THE SWEET SABBATH"
CHAPTER XXI.      SI AND SHORTY WERE RAPIDLY LEARNING
CHAPTER XXII.     A NIGHT OF SONG




PREFACE.

"Si Klegg, of the 200th Ind., and Shorty, his Partner," were born more
than