Chapter One.
Volunteers for Texas.
“I’ll go!”
This laconism came from the lips of a young man who was walking along the Levee of New Orleans. Just before giving utterance to it he had made a sudden stop, facing a dead wall, enlivened, however, by a large poster, on which were printed, in conspicuous letters, the words—
“Volunteers for Texas!”
Underneath, in smaller type, was a proclamation, setting forth...
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