A
GALLOP
AMONG
AMERICAN SCENERY:
OR,
SKETCHES
OF
AMERICAN SCENES AND MILITARY ADVENTURE
BY
AUGUSTUS E. SILLIMAN.
NEW-YORK:
D. APPLETON & CO., 200 BROADWAY.
PHILADELPHIA:
GEO. S. APPLETON, 148 CHESNUT STREET.
M DCCC XLIII.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843,
BY D. APPLETON AND CO.,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of
New-York.
H. LUDWIG, PRINTER,
72 Vesey-st., N. Y.
TO
BENJAMIN D. SILLIMAN,
THIS
LITTLE VOLUME
IS
AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,
BY
HIS BROTHER.
A number of the following Sketches have appeared at intervalsin the columns of the New-York American.
CONTENTS.
| I. | Banks of the Potomac | 1 |
| II. | The Country Pastor | 8 |
| III. | Mount Vernon | 13 |
| IV. | Medical Student | 25 |
| V. | The Resurrectionists | 39 |
| VI. | Old Kennedy, No. I. | 44 |
| VII. | Old Kennedy, No. II. | 53 |
| VIII. | Old Kennedy, No. III. | 59 |
| IX. | Old Kennedy, No. IV. | 68 |
| X. | Lee’s Partisan Legion | 78 |
| XI. | Hudson River | 107 |
| XII. | Night Attack on Fort Erie | 113 |
| XIII. | Battle of Lundy’s Lane | 120 |
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