Table of Contents
PREFACE
HOW BATTLES ARE FOUGHT A PREFATORY EXPLANATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE MATTER
JOE
AROUND THE CAMP-FIRE
AN UNFINISHED FIGHT
A FAMILY THAT HAD NO LUCK
WILLIAM
A CRADLE CAPTAIN
WHO IS RUSSELL?
“JUANITA”
SCRUGGS
JOE ON HORSEBACK
A RATHER BAD NIGHT
THE WOMEN OF PETERSBURG
HAM SEAY
OLD JONES’S DASH
A WOMAN’S HAIR
A MIDNIGHT CRIME THE CRIMINAL’S OWN ACCOUNT OF IT
A LITTLE REBEL
TWENTY-ONE
A BEEF EPISODE
BERNARD POLAND’S PROPHECY
A BREACH OF ETIQUETTE
THE LADY OF THE GREEN BLIND
YOUNGBLOOD’S LAST MORNING
BILLY GOODWIN
MANASSAS
MY LAST NIGHT ON PICKET
GRIFFITH’S CONTINUED STORY
A CHEERFUL SUPPER OF CHEERS
HOW THE TAR HEELS STUCK
“LITTLE LAMKIN’S BATTERY”
CURRY
GUN-BOATS
TWO MINUTES
SI TUCKER—COWARD AND HERO
WAR AS A THERAPEUTIC AGENT
“NOTES ON COLD HARBOR”[1]
A PLANTATION HEROINE
TWO INCIDENTS IN CONTRAST
INCIDENT NUMBER ONE
INCIDENT NUMBER TWO
HOW THE SERGEANT-MAJOR TOLD THE TRUTH
TWO GENTLEMEN AT PETERSBURG
OLD JONES AND THE HUCKSTER
A DEAD MAN’S MESSAGE
A WOMAN’S LAST WORD
AN INCOMPLETE STORY
RANDOM FACTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF SOUTHERN SOLDIER CONDITIONS
MY FRIEND PHIL[2]
