GENERAL BUNKER.
"GENERAL BUNKER."




                            FOUR YEARS
                         A SCOUT AND SPY.




"GENERAL BUNKER,"
ONE OF LIEUT. GENERAL GRANT'S MOST DARING AND SUCCESSFUL SCOUTS.


 BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE THRILLING ADVENTURES, NARROW ESCAPES,
      NOBLE DARING, AND AMUSING INCIDENTS IN THE EXPERIENCE
         OF CORPORAL RUGGLES DURING FOUR YEARS' SERVICE
            AS A SCOUT AND SPY FOR THE FEDERAL ARMY;

                   EMBRACING HIS SERVICES FOR
  TWELVE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED GENERALS IN THE U. S. ARMY.




By E. C. DOWNS,
MAJOR OF THE TWENTIETH OHIO VETERAN VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.




 Illustrated.




ZANESVILLE, OHIO:
PUBLISHED BY HUGH DUNNE,
North Fourth Street, adjoining Court House.
1866.




Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by
E. C. DOWNS,

In the Clerk's Office of the United States District Court, for the
Southern District of Ohio.




STEREOTYPED AT THE
FRANKLIN TYPE FOUNDRY,
CINCINNATI, O.




TO

Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant,

Whose undaunted energy, heroic valor, superior generalship,
and devotion to his country,
have proved him

"THE RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE,"

And won for him

A WORLD-WIDE FAME;

And to the gallant Officers and Soldiers
who have nobly assisted in sustaining our glorious nationality
by crushing the great rebellion,

THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.



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PREFACE.
It was with much difficulty that I was induced to give to the public anarrative of my experience as a scout and spy. It was the intenseinterest with which the people have listened to my narratives, wheneverI have related them, and their earnest entreaties to have thempublished, that have prevailed upon me to do so.
I entered the army from purely patriotic motives. I had no vain ambitionto gratify, but simply a desire to sustain and perpetuate the nobleinstitutions that had been purchased by the blood of our fathers. Ivalued the cause of liberty as well worth all the sacrifice that itmight cost to save it. I saw at once that the conflict was to be oneinvolving great principles, and that in the end Truth and Justice mustprevail.
The part that I have borne in putting down the great rebellion is theone that naturally fell to me by the force of circumstances, andentirely unsolicited. My relation in the affairs of life seems to [Pg iv]havebeen such as to have just adapted me to that part that fell to my lot toact.
I have, without do                        
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