Virginia Graham

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Excerpt from Virginia Graham: The Spy of the Grand ArmyI enlisted as a private, but for doing my duty at the battles of Shiloh and Pittsburgh Landing - which duty my colonel styled in his despatches gallant services, -i was hon ored with a second-lieutenant's commission, and before the Grand Army had concentra ted around and near Vicksburg, I had won a captain's commission, and had command of the color company of our regiment.Virginia, the Vivandiere, under an order superior to my own, quartered with my com mand, and that she might be constantly nu der such protection as I could afford her, she slept within my tent, which I divided into two apartments by a piece of canvas that was stretched entirely across the centre and as a further protection, and to avoid all possibility of scandal, I permitted a negress - an intelligent contraband woman - Aunt Clemmy, as she was invariably called - to quarter with her.Aunt Clemmy was an indispensable per somage about the camp, for she contrived, with her own hands, to do the washing for all the officers of our regiment, and appar ently with no extraordinary exertion.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.