Excerpt from Tales of War Times: Being the Adventures of Thomas Hinds During the American Civil War The adventures of Thomas Hinds were in part published in the Watertown (N. Y.) Herald and attracted so much attention that it was decided to place them in permanent form. Coming to this country from Ireland a small boy in dresses, and within ten years donning the uniform of Uncle Sam as a soldier, his several unsuccessful attempts to get mustered in, his capture, prison life and attempts to escape, - finally successful, - furnish the material for one of the richest romances of adventures in America history. Herein is given the story just as Mr. Hinds told it himself, fitting at his desk in the office of his foundry and machine shop at Malone, N .Y. No attempt has been made to spoil the story by making of it a literary effort. It is a plain, unvarnished tale of a time which has passed into history, being the adventures of a young Irish lad who had the fighting blood of his ancestors, the ready wit and resourcefulness of his race. Fine halftone pictures of sixteen of the most famous battles of the Civil War, with brief descriptions of each, are added for the purpose of instructing the children and bringing vividly to the mind of their elders the days when their country's life was at stake. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.