Transcriber's Note:

A table of contents with links has been added at the beginning of the book.

Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.

High-resolution images can be accessed by clicking on the images in the text.

Hyphens removed: "hill[-]side" (page 152), "look[-]out" (page 221), "mid[-]day" (page 149), "night[-]fall" (page 157), "rear[-]guard" (page 142), "sharp[-]shooters" (page 191), "wide[-]spread (page 230).

Hyphen added: "by[-]ways" (page 224).

The following words appear both with and without hyphens and have not been changed: "back[-]waters", "motor[-]omnibuses", "pickel[-]haubes".

Page 43: the double quotation mark after "Well, Mr. Mayor," was changed to a single quotation mark.

Page 50: "communciation" changed to "communication" (established direct communication).

Page 60: "to" changed to "the" (came the VIIth Army Corps).

Page 76: "thei" changed to "their" (some of their field batteries).

Page 85: "Aryglls" changed to "Argylls".

Page 89: "squardon" changed to "squadron" (squadron after squadron).

Page 143: "fellow" changed to "fellows" (hundreds of poor fellows).

Page 166: "fo" changed to "for" (for our salvation).

Page 178: "Shepheard's Bush" changed to "Shepherd's Bush".

Page 187: "Rosyln Hill" changed to "Roslyn Hill".

Page 253: added "as" (and as soon as fired on).