—BEING— THE EXPERIENCES OF A 'TYPO' IN THE PINES, SWAMPS, FIELDS, SANDY ROADS, TOWNS, CITIES, AND AMONG THE FLEAS, WOOD-TICKS, 'GRAY-BACKS,' MOSQUITOES, BLUE-TAIL FLIES, MOCCASIN SNAKES, LIZARDS, SCORPIONS, REBELS, AND OTHER REPTILES, PESTS AND VERMIN OF THE 'OLD NORTH STATE.' EMBRACING AN ACCOUNT OF THE THREE-YEARS AND NINE-MONTHS MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENTS IN THE DEPARTMENT, THE FREEDMEN ETC., ETC., ETC. BY "ONE OF THE SEVENTEENTH," Thomas Kirwan ILLUSTRATED. BOSTON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THOM

The contents of the following pages are presented to the public as matters of fact. They embody some of the writer's experiences while serving his country in the "land of cotton." It is true his experiences are tame and unromantic when compared with those of some of the men of the Potomac or the Cumberland; but they are the best he can offer, and need no apology, as the style does, which is rough and unpolished. Besides giving an account of the 17th Mass. Reg't, and its participation in the enga

To the officers and men of the Seventeenth Massachusetts Regiment, who, through no fault of theirs, have only lacked the opportunities to render their organization as famous as that of any regiment from the old Bay State: whose services have been mostly of that passive character —upon the outpost picket, and performing arduous duty in the midst of a malarial country—that suffers and endures much without exciting comment or adding to the laurels, of which every true soldier is so proud: THIS HUMB

ENLISTMENT—DEPARTURE—THE VOYAGE—HATTERAS—UP THE NEUSE—NEWBERN—AN ACCOUNT OF THE 17TH—ON PICKET—DOING PROVOST DUTY IN NEWBERN, ETC. It has been said that man is essentially a "fighting animal,"—that in this "world's broad field of battle" his life, from the cradle to the grave, is one continued struggle against want and its attendant circumstances,—and that he is the greatest who, be his position what it may, acts well his part. If this be true—and I think it is—then the man who goes to the war o

EXPEDITION TO GOLDSBORO—SKIRMISHING—SOUTHWEST CREEK—BATTLES OF KINSTON, WHITEHALL, AND GOLDSBORO—INCIDENTS—RETURN OF THE EXPEDITION TO NEWBERN—THE 17TH RELIEVED BY THE 45TH IN NEWBERN—ACROSS THE TRENT—BUILDING FORTS—SICKNESS—BEAUFORT—AN ACCOUNT OF THE FREEDMEN, ETC., ETC. The indulgent reader, who has accompanied me thus far in my peregrinations through Dixie, need not be alarmed, upon looking at the caption of this page, at the prospect of being bored with so many dry, solid pages as he has wad