INDEX.
Reading edition
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Jamestown and its significance 5
The Jamestown Exposition 5
A tribute to Virginia 7
History of Company F, Fifty-sixth Regiment 8
Confederate monument at Shelby 35
A patriotic recruit 36
A bad case of itch 37
Longstreet’s Corps on the way to Chickamauga 38
Shooting an outlaw 39
Removing Federal prisoners from Richmond to Andersonville 40
Navigating the Appomattox River 42
Incidents in the lines 45
Reminiscences of Point Lookout Prison 46
A negro servant who claimed he carried white ladies’ hair 47
Begging crumbs from a negro’s table 47
Two patriotic soldiers and one who was out for the bounty 48
On the wharf detail, and waiting to steal something from Uncle Sam’s plentiful stores 48
The invasion of home land after Lee’s surrender 52
A faithful negro servant 52
Would not let them take all the meat the man had 53
Confederate troopers commit outrages, plunder and murder 54
A hearty conscript 54
Scenes at Appomattox—Stragglers in the Union army 56
A patriotic darkey 57
An aggrieved Union soldier seeks sympathy from his Southern people 58
Field officers of the Fifty-sixth Regiment, North Carolina troops 58
A true Virginia boy and a bit of romance 62
Col. Billy Miller’s upright farm in the upright regions of Cleveland County, and how he came to own it, with sketches of the county and some of its people 65
Uncle Abe Wallis’ visit to Washington 69
An Irish socialist 71
Seven days’ fight around Richmond 71
The negro problem 75
Transcriber’s Note:
Inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, and the use of quotation marks have been retained.