CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY.
A successful scout, or spy, is like a great poet in one respect: he is born, not made—subject to the requisition of the military genius of the time.
That I was not born to be hanged is a self-evident proposition. Whether I was a successful scout or not, the reader of these pages must determine.
It was my good fortune to have first seen the light under the shadow of one of the spurs of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in...
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