Personal Reminiscences of the War of 1861-5
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- In Camp—en Bivouac—on the March—on Picket—on the Skirmish Line—on the Battlefield—and in Prison
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1. Front matter2. Personal Reminiscences of the War of 1861-53. PREFACE4. CONTENTS5. INTRODUCTION6. CHAPTER I Personal—Organization—Roll of Company7. CHAPTER II Enter the Service—Trouble about Arms—Cause of Secession8. CHAPTER III On to Manassas—The Eleventh Regiment—The First Brigade9. CHAPTER IV Battle of Blackburn's Ford—The Battle Begins—The Enemy Driven Back—Incidents of the Battle10. CHAPTER V The Battle of First Manassas—General Johnston to the Rescue—Gen. Kirby Smith Turns the Tide of Battle—The Rebel Yell—The News of Victory—The Enemy Not Pursued—Gathering the Spoils11. CHAPTER VI To Centreville and Fairfax Court House—Picket Close to the Enemy—Exciting Times on Picket—Back to Centreville—The Fight at Drainesville12. CHAPTER VII Fall Back From Centreville—The Peninsula Campaign—Yorktown Line Evacuated—The Battle of Williamsburg—"Give it to Them"—Into a Hot Fire—Colonel Garland Wounded—Incidents of the Battle—Garland and Kemper Promoted13. CHAPTER VIII Back to Richmond—Battle of Seven Pines—The Brigade in Reserve—Into the Fight at Double-Quick—Incidents of the Battle—On the Picket Lines14. CHAPTER IX Seven Days' Fight Around Richmond—Battle of Gaines' Mill15. CHAPTER X Second Manassas and Maryland Campaign—Sharpsburg—Back to Virginia—From Winchester to Culpeper—To Fredericksburg16. CHAPTER XI The Battle of Fredericksburg—Kemper's Brigade in Reserve—Spectacular Scene—Behind Marye's Hill—Sharp-Shooting—At Home—Sad Loss17. CHAPTER XII To Richmond, Chester, and Petersburg—To North Carolina—Back to Virginia, at Suffolk—To Taylorsville—On to Join General Lee18. CHAPTER XIII Pennsylvania Campaign—Gettysburg—Back to Virginia—General Lee and Army of Northern Virginia19. CHAPTER XIV To Taylorsville—At Chafin's Farm—To North Carolina—Marching Through Swamps and Sand—The Capture of Plymouth—Companies C and G Have Serious Experiences—Incidents of the Battle—The Gunboat "Albemarle"—Col. James Dearing Wins Promotion—On to Washington, North Carolina—Newberne Invested20. CHAPTER XV Back to Petersburg, Va.—Beast Butler—The Battle of Drury's Bluff—General Gracie's Courage—Into a Heavy Fire at Close Range—Col. Richard F. Maury—Yankee Brigade Captured—General Whiting's Failure—The Yankee Flags21. CHAPTER XVI To Milford and to Capture—A Prisoner of War—On to Washington22. CHAPTER XVII To Fort Delaware—Short Rations—Song—Prison Rules23. CHAPTER XVIII Off for Charleston—Alleged Retaliation—On Shipboard—Run Aground—Short of Water—On Morris Island—In Stockade—Under Fire—Prison Rules24. CHAPTER XIX To Fort Pulaski—Rotten Cornmeal and Pickled Rations—A Plot Laid25. CHAPTER XX Back to Fort Delaware—Disappointment and Great Suffering—Three Deaths and Burials at Sea26. CHAPTER XXI Yankee Infamy—Conduct of the War—Sherman's March—Virginia Dismembered27. CHAPTER XXII Lee's Surrender—Lincoln's Assassination—Out of Prison and at Home28. CHAPTER XXIII Reconstruction and Since29. INDEX30. TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE