Identifier: swordpenorventura00owen (find matches)
Title: Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Owens, John Algernon
Subjects: Glazier, Willard, 1841-1905 Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Philadelphia : P.W. Ziegler and Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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-life inthe South. The book is at once accurate, graphic and admirablywritten. It is full of adventure, and quite as readable as a romance.A person who reads this volume will have a better idea of what itcost in the way of blood, suffering and courage, to preserve the Re-public, than he can now possibly entertain. The Cleveland Daily Leader writes: We have had the pleasure of reading this book. It describes,in the most graphic and interesting style, the prison-life of Unionsoldiers in the South, their plans of escape, and their various trialsand hardships there. The history contained in the book is veryvaluable. The Press, all over the land, speaks .very highly of it,and we can do naught but add our commendations to the rest. The New York Reformer exclaims: * From the title-page to its close, the volume is full of fresh inci-dents, attracting the reader on, from page to page, with unbroken,though at times with melancholy, at others indignant, and at otherswrathful, interest. T onend I
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CHAPTER XXVIII. three years in the federal cavalry. Another work by Captain Glazier.— Three Years in the FederalCavalry.—Daring deeds of the Light Dragoons.—Extracts fromthe work.—Night attack on Falmouth Heights.—Kilpatricksstratagem.—Flight of the enemy.—Capture of Falmouth,—Burialof Lieutenant Decker.—Incidents at brandy Station.— HarrisLight and * Tenth New York.—* Men of Maine, you mustsave the day !—Position won.—Some Press reviews of thework. THROUGH earnest and continued application oursoldier-author had, in the meantime, produced an-other book of equal merit with his first. This he named, Three Years in the Federal Cavalry. It is a worko£ thrilling interest, and contains much of historyrelating to the Civil War, and more especially to thecavalry service. It was the opinion of Captain Gla-zier that the Union cavalry had never been properlyappreciated, and for this reason he took up his pen inits defense. He narrates the daring deeds of our LightDrago

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