The Captured Scout of the Army of the James A Sketch of the Life of Sergeant Henry H. Manning, of the Twenty-fourth Mass. Regiment   By: H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull (1830-1903)

CAPTURED SCOUT

OF THE

ARMY OF THE JAMES.

A Sketch of the Life of

SERGEANT HENRY H. MANNING,

OF THE TWENTY FOURTH MASS. REGIMENT.

BY

CHAPLAIN H. CLAY TRUMBULL.

BOSTON: NICHOLS AND NOYES. 1869.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1868, by NICHOLS AND NOYES, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE: PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON.

TO THE SURVIVING MEMBERS

OF THE

Twenty Fourth Regiment Massachusetts Vols.,

THIS SKETCH OF THEIR COMRADE IS AFFECTIONATELY

DEDICATED ,

BY ONE WHO HOLDS IN EVER FRESH AND DELIGHTFUL

REMEMBRANCE HIS THREE YEARS' EXPERIENCE

AS THEIR BRIGADE COMPANION,

AND

HIS MINISTRY AS THEIR OCCASIONAL CHAPLAIN .

NOTE.

This little sketch is the best, because the only, tribute to the memory of its subject that the writer, amid the pressure of varied duties, can find time to render.

Prepared, in great part, for use in a memorial discourse, it has not been rewritten, although extended by additions which perhaps mar the harmony of its first design.

The fact that it was shaped to be spoken rather than to be read, designed for the ear rather than for the eye, will account, to those accustomed to public address, for some of its unsuitableness of style for the form in which it now appears.

H. C. T.

CONTENTS.

The Dead of the Army of the James 9

Cost of the Slaveholders' War 10

A Massachusetts Boy. Foreshadowings of a noble Life 13

The Soldier of Christ and Country 14

A good Regiment. A good Record 16

Fighting and Praying 17

James Island. Hospital Supply of Rebel Shells 19

Charleston Siege work. Sharpshooting 20

The Veterans. Love for the old Flag 22

Campaigns it in Virginia. Volunteers as a Scout 24

The Capture. The Dungeon. The Gallows 27

Gloom of the Stockade and Jail. Consecration Vow 29

Escape and Recapture. Torn by Blood hounds 31

Andersonville Horrors 34

In the Rebel Ranks. Loyal still 35

A Prisoner among Friends. Good News for Home 37

Again with his Regiment. Merited Promotion 38

Home at last 39

Telling his Story. Fulfilling his Vow 40

Student life at Andover. Loving Service for Jesus 41

Toil for Bread. Unfailing Trust 43

Failing Health. A Grateful Heart 47

In Hospital. Gentle Ministry there 48

Hope against Hope. The Privilege of Christian Work 53

Only Waiting. Rest at last 55

Claims of the Dead on the Living 58

THE CAPTURED SCOUT OF THE ARMY OF THE JAMES.

THE DEAD OF THE ARMY OF THE JAMES.

On the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 2, 1868, some two hundred ex officers of the "Army of the James" were assembled in the dining hall of the St. James Hotel, Boston, in delightful re union, as comrades of camp and campaigning. The writer of this little sketch was called on to say words in tribute to "The memory of the honored dead" of that army, and in consequence the tenderest recollections were revived of those who fell in the long years of war with rebellion.