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How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion

How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion

by George Wilbur PECK (1840 - 1916)

A series of U.S. Civil War adventures or incidents experienced and enhanced (or created) by humorist George W. Peck. Peck was at times a writer, newspaper publisher and politician. He had a wry sense of humor and sympathy for underdogs. ( Arnold Banner)


A Short Story About a Pair of Boots, Showing the Monumental Gall of their Owner.

Bacon and Hard-tack

“Boots and Saddles”

I am Detailed to Build a Bridge

I am Detailed to Drive a Six-Mule Team

I am Instructed to Capture and Search a Female Smuggler

I Am Rudely Awakened from Dreams of Home

I Capture “Jeff”

I Demonstrate that Gambling Does Not Pay

I Describe a Deadly Encounter

I Go on a Scouting Expedition

I Strike Another Soft-Snap, Which is Harder Than Any Snap Heretofore

I Yearn for a Furlough

Military Attire

Mingled Reminiscences

My Experience as a Sick Man

My Sickness and Hospital Experiences Have Spoiled Me for a Soldier

My Varied Experiences in the Hospital

Our Party of Recruits own the Earth

Tells How the Chaplain was Paralyzed by the Spotted Circus-Horse

Thanksgiving Dinner with the “Rebel Angel”

The Female Smuggler Episode Makes Me Famous

The Funeral of the Colored Cook

The Spotted Horse

The War Literature of the “Century” is very Confusing

Three Days Without Food!

Yearnings for Military Fame