VIRGINIA GRAHAM, THE SPY OF THE GRAND ARMY.
BYJUSTIN JONES.
LORING, Publisher,
319 WASHINGTON STREET,
BOSTON.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by Justin Jones, in the District Clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts. Rockwell & Rollins, Printers and Stereotypers, 122 Washington Street, Boston.
PREFACE.
THIS romantic but "plain, unvarnished tale" was neither picked up on a battle-field, nor found in a dead soldier's haversack, nor abstracted from the collection of military souvenirs at Washington, West Point, or elsewhere; nor was it collated from the multitudinous Histories or Fictions of the ever memorable campaign which gloriously culminated in the reduction and surrender of the "Gibraltar of the Mississippi," nor from the many "Lives" or biographies, of the heroes who behaved so gallantly during the great siege. Nevertheless, we find the Mss. in our possession; and, as we know of no one to claim its paternity, we take the responsibility of being its putative father; and if any one of its living characters feels aggrieved in being thus exhibited for the edification of (he hopes) a million of readers, he asks their pardon, and holds himself in readiness to make such amends or explanations as may be demanded by them, and absolutely due from him.
J. J.
BROOKLINE, A. D., 1868.