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THE
 
PRISONER OF THE MILL;
 
OR,
 
CAPTAIN HAYWARD’S “BODY GUARD.”

BY LIEUTENANT-COLONEL HAZELTINE.
Author of “The Border Spy.”
NEW YORK:
THE AMERICAN NEWS CO., PUBLISHERS’ AGENT,
NO. 121 NASSAU STREET.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864,
by Sinclair Tousey, Publishers’ Agent, in the
Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United
States for the Southern District of New York.
THE
PRISONER OF THE MILL.

CHAPTER I.
 
Brother and Sister—Forebodings—Nettleton.

War! Oh! how much of misery is expressedin that one word! It tells its owntale of woe, of blood, of broken hearts anddesolated homes, of hopes blighted, of povertyand crime, of plunder, peculation andofficial tyranny, of murder and sudden death.In short, it develops all the baser passionsof the human heart, changing a peacefulworld to a world of woe, over which thedestroying angel well might weep.

Come, oh, thou angel, Peace!

The “Army of the Mississippi,” as it wastermed, had been unsuccessful in their pursuitof the rebel General Price. A portionof it, or rather the division commanded byGeneral Sigel, had advanced from Springfield,Missouri, upon the Wilson creek road,as far as the famous battle-ground renderedimmortal by the death of General Lyon, butfinding no enemy, it had encamped uponGrand Prairie, a few miles to the west ofthe bloody field. All in camp was uponthe “tip-toe of expectation.” The lovelyscene spread out before the view, was sufficientto inspire the heart of man to greatand glorious deeds. The broad, ro

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