Preface. Chapter 1 : family and boyhood. Chapter 2 : early army-life. Chapter 3 : Black-Hawk War. Chapter 4 : Jefferson Barracks . Chapter 5 : the Texan Revolution . Chapter 6 : as Texan soldier. Chapter 7 : Secretary of War . Chapter 8 : 1840 - 1845 . Chapter 9 : the Mexican War . Chapter 10 : plantation-life. Chapter 11 : Paymaster in United States Army . chapter 13 Chapter 13 : the Mormon rebellion. Chapter 14 : Utah campaign. Chapter 15 : camp Floyd . Chapter 16 : the Southern Confederacy . Chapter 17 : California . Chapter 18 : the desert journey. Chapter 19 : situation in the West . Chapter 20 : military situation in Kentucky . Chapter 21 : General Polk and Columbus, Kentucky . Chapter 22 : efforts to get arms and troops. Chapter 23 : Bowling Green . Appendix A. Appendix B. Appendix B ( 2 ). Chapter 24 : the battle of Belmont . Chapter 25 : the fall campaign. Chapter 26 : battle of Fishing Creek . Chapter 27 : Fort Henry . Chapter 28 : Fort Donelson . Chapter 29 : the retreat from Bowling Green . Chapter 30 : from Murfreesboro to Corinth . Chapter 31 : Pittsburg Landing . Chapter 32 : concentration at Corinth . Chapter 33 : before the battle. Chapter 34 : battle of Shiloh .- Sunday . Chapter 35 : Appendix I : killed, wounded, and missing: battle of Shiloh . Chapter 36 : General Johnston in the grave. Chapter 37 : the end.