Excerpt from McLean: A Romance of the WarWhile crossing a level, sandy tract two of the prisoners sprang forward, threw up the crossed bayonets of the guards, and leaped from the train. They had scarcely struck the ground when the sharp reports of two muskets were heard, succeded by shots from a dozen others.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.