The Lure of the Mississippi

FOREWORD
The story told here has for its scenic background the Mississippi River and its fine northern tributary, the Minnesota, the “Sky-tinted Water” of the Sioux Indians.
The story opens in the spring of 1861. The Civil War has begun. Lincoln has called for 75,000 volunteers, while to regiments and batteries of the small regular army orders have been issued to hurry to Washington as fast as possible.
Colonel John C. Pemberton embarks his battery on the Fanny Harris, at Fort Ridgely on the M...