{"product_id":"2940013517899","title":"A LITTLE UNION SCOUT","description":"A LITTLE UNION SCOUT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young lady, just returned from college, was making a still-hunt in\u003cbr\u003ethe house for old things--old furniture, old china, and old books. She\u003cbr\u003ehad a craze for the antique, and the older things were the more\u003cbr\u003eprecious they were in her eyes. Among other things she found an old\u003cbr\u003escrap-book that her mother and I thought was safe under lock and key.\u003cbr\u003eShe sat in a sunny place and read it page by page, and, when she had\u003cbr\u003efinished, her curiosity was aroused. The clippings in the old\u003cbr\u003escrap-book were all about the adventures of a Union scout whose name\u003cbr\u003ewas said to be Captain Frank Leroy. The newspaper clippings that had\u003cbr\u003ebeen preserved were queerly inconsistent. The Northern and Western\u003cbr\u003epapers praised the scout very highly, and some of them said that if\u003cbr\u003ethere were more such men in the army the cause of the Union would\u003cbr\u003eprogress more rapidly; whereas the Southern papers, though paying a\u003cbr\u003ehigh tribute to the dash and courage of the scout, were highly abusive.\u003cbr\u003eHe was \"one of Lincoln's hirelings\" and as villanous as he was bold.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe girl graduate at once jumped to the conclusion that there was a\u003cbr\u003estory behind the old scrap-book, else why should it be preserved by her\u003cbr\u003efather, who had been a Confederate soldier? This idea no sooner took\u003cbr\u003eshape than she became insistently inquisitive. As for her father, the\u003cbr\u003every sight of the scrap-book awoke the echoes of a hundred\u003cbr\u003eexperiences--long and dangerous rides in the lonely night, battles,\u003cbr\u003esharp skirmishes and bitter sufferings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story, such as it was, took shape in my mind, and I am afraid that\u003cbr\u003ethe young girl had small difficulty in persuading me to tell it. Memory\u003cbr\u003ebrought before me the smiling features of Harry Herndon, my life-long\u003cbr\u003efriend and comrade, the handsome face of Jack Bledsoe, one of our\u003cbr\u003ecollege mates from Missouri, and the beautiful countenance of his\u003cbr\u003esister, Katherine Bledsoe. These and a hundred other faces came\u003cbr\u003ecrowding from the past, and the story was told almost before I knew it.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172445929712,"sku":"2940013517899","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013517899_p0.jpg?v=1763582386","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013517899","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}