chapter 1.1
The Naval situation at
Vicksburg
.
Building and Commissioning of the
Arkansas
.
The
first
action of the
Arkansas
.
The
Second
action of the
Arkansas
.
The
Third
action of the
Arkansas
.
The
Fourth
action of the
Arkansas
.
The end of the
Arkansas
.
Summary.
Trees whittled down at Horseshoe.
Personal reminiscences.
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With
General
Johnson
in the
Horseshoe
.
Description of the trees.
The
Horseshoe
or
Bloody
Angle
.
At the
Wilderness
.
The march to
Spotsylvania
.
No surprise of
Johnson
.
Recollections of a Confederate staff officer by
Gen.
G.
M.
Sorrel
.
The lost sword of
Gen.
Richard
B.
Garnett
, who fell at
Gettysburg
, (from the
Baltimore sun
, of
November
4
, and
December
3
,
1905
.)
How
Garnett
died.
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Killed by a grape shot.
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Was soldier and gentleman.
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Marylanders with
Garnett
.
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chapter 1.13
Rope cut
as he ascended.
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Captain
Bryan
's story.
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Asked for the detail.
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Passing the danger line.
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A target in mid air.
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Came down in safety.
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A trip by night.
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Blown back and forth.
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A friendly wind.
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The honor roll of the
University of Virginia
, from the times-dispatch,
December
3
,
1905
.
Names that cannot die.
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chapter 1.15
The color bearer killed.
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Advance of
Pegram
's brigade
.
The
Forty-Ninth Va.
Charges at
right-shoulder Shift.
The red-cap color bearer, Orendorf, of
Amherst
.
section c.1.15.26
Lieutenant-Colonel
C.
B.
Christian
wounded and captured.
Generous conduct of the enemy.
In Washington
, hearing
Earley
's guns on the
Suburbs
.
At Fort
Delaware
and at
Morris Island
with the
six hundred
.
Under
retaliation
and living on cats.
The old brigade, whose regiment furnished
Early
,
William
Smith
,
A.
P.
Hill
,
J.
P.
Walker
and
J.
B.
Terrell
.
Address delivered at
Newton, North Carolina
,
John
Yates
Beall
, gallant soldier
Plan to relieve Confederate prisoners on
Johnson's Island
.
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Raids on the
Potomac
.
Capture of the
Philo
Parsons
and
Island Queen.
Captain
Bealls
Scheme
of operation.
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section c.1.17.37
Was
Captain
Beall
betrayed?
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Capture of
Capt.
Beall
and Court martial.
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Execution; heroic bearing of
Captain
Beall
.
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His mother's visit and letter to his brother.
Illegality of
Captain
Bealls
execution.
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The crisis of the
Confederacy
chapter 1.19
chapter 1.20
Sharpsburg
or
Antietam
.
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Fifteenth Virginia Infantry
.
The kaleidescope of war memories.
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Tommy
Lipscomb
and his kettle drum.
The whirl of events.
Behold
Sharpsburg
.
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section c.1.21.48
Beautiful loading and firing and
the
Rebel
yell.
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A word about our artillery and
the boy battery
of
Parker
.
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Crisis at
Sharpsburg
.
In a hot place; on a stretcher; and in a Hay stack.
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Some
Sharpsburg
incidents.
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One
way of stopping a
Rebel yell.
A hasty meal on apple butter.
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Infantry strength of the
Confederate Army
.
A telling
one
on
President
Lincoln
.
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Gamest fight of the
Nineteenth
century.
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My personal experiences in taking up arms and in the
battle of Malvern Hill
.
Gettysburg
—Pickett's charge.
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My experience in taking up arms and in the
battle of Malvern Hill
.
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Gettysburg
-
Pickett
's charge.
General
Lee
at
Gettysburg
.
The movement begun.
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A personal incident.
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Eastward from
Chambersburg
.
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Gettysburg
.
General
Lee
on the field.
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The Corps commanders.
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The
first
day.
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The
Second
day.
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The
Third
day.
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The day after.
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Was it
A.
Drawn
battle?
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A great soldier.
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A great man.
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Some of the drug conditions during the war between the
States
,
1861
-
5
.
A paper read before a meeting of the
American
pharmaceutical Association held in
Baltimore, Maryland
, in
August
,
1898
,
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Seals, stamps and currency
The last charge at
Appomattox
.
The last fighting at
Appomattox
.
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The
Twelfth Alabama Infantry
,
Confederate States
Army.
Sketch of the
Twelfth Alabama Infantry
.
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Twelfth Alabama Infantry
.
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Field and staff.
Captains
and counties from which the companies came.
Company a,
guard
Lafayette
,
Mobile, Ala.
Company C
.
Company B
Coosa Independents
—
Coosa county
.
Company C
independent rifles
—
Mobile county
.
Company C
.
Company D
,
Coffee Rangers
—
Coffee county
.
Company E
.
Casualties.
Macon Confederates,
Company F
,
Macon county
.
Company F
.
Company G
,
Paint Rock river
sharpshooters
Jackson county
.
Company H
,
Morgan county
.
Company I
,
Southern
Foresters
,
Mobile county
.
Company K
,
Tom
Watts
' Rebels,
Macon county
.
Twelfth
Alabamians who surrendered at
Appomattox
,
April
9th
,
1865
.
Twelfth Alabama regiment
.
Company A
.
Company B
.
Company C
.
Company D
.
Company E
.
Company F
.
Company G
.
Company H
.
Company I
.
Company K
.
The
Yorktown
election and reorganization.
The
battle of Williamsburg
.
Seven Pines
.
List of killed and wounded of the
Twelfth Alabama regiment
,
Third brigade
, commanded by
Brigadier
Gen-Eral
R.
E.
Rodes
, at battle of
Seven Pines
.
Summary.
The
Seven days
battle around
Richmond
.
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Winter at
Hamilton's Crossing
.
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Battle of Chancellorsville
.
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Advance into
Maryland
and
Pennsylvania
.
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Battle of Gettysburg
.
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Camp near
Orange Courthouse
August
,
1863
.
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Battle of
Warrenton Springs
.
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Battle of Bristow Station
.
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Battle of
Locust Grove
,
Nov.
27th
.
Battle of
Mine Run
,
Nov.
28th
.
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At
Washington city
.
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Re-enlistment for the war.
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Anniversary of the
battle of Boonsboro
,
Maryland
.
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Battle of Winchester
,
September
19th
,
1864
.
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The
Twelth
's
artillery
Associations.
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Preaching in camp.
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Music in the camp.
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The
Twelfth Alabama
surgeons.
Battle of the Wilderness
.
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The
Twelfth
of
May
.
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chapter 1.30
Address of
Hon.
John
Lamb
.
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Beauty and chivalry.
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The author of the bill.
Governor's speech.
Governor
Cameron
's speech.
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Returning Confederate flags.
John
Lamb
.
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Roster of the
Battalion
of the
Georgia
Military Institute
Cadets
Company A
.
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Privates
of Comany A.
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Color guard
.
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section c.1.32.138
Sergeants
.
Corporals
.
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Privates
.
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Casualties in the
Battalion
.
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chapter 1.33
Confederate Army
.
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Guns.
Federal Army.
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chapter 1.34
Major
Hunter
's story.
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Circular order of precaution.
On the qui vive before daybreak.
Fighting with his cane.
Lee
riding to the front.
Major
Hunter
in command.
chapter 1.35
Lee
's Counterbreaks saved the field.
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Lee
in person orders
Garber
to man the recaptured guns.
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The breach in the
Confederate
line and the artillery on
May
12th
.
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Again
Manning
recaptured guns.
The artillery's Outing on the
8th
May
,
1864
.
chapter 1.36
Last days of the
Confederate Army
in
Southwest
Virginia
.
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M'Laughlins (
Thirteenth Virginia
) Battalion of
Light artillery
.
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Gloom.
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The last day at
Christiansburg
April
12
,
1865
—the long furlough from
General
Echols
.
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chapter 1.37
chapter 1.38
Story of a participant.
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The
battle of the
Crater
as I saw it.
Explosion of the
Mine
at
the
Crater
the night of
July
30th
.
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Preparation for the counter attack.
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Mahone
gives his orders for retaking the
Fort
at the
Crater
.
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The
Alabama
brigade.
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Into the mouth of hell charged the
six hundred
.
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section c.1.38.168
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The Confederate line restored Sharpshooting
July
31st
.
A flag of truce.
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The dragon's teeth.
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page 370
Sunday
,
31st
.
Captain
Featherston
's letters written in the trenches.
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General order no. 17
.
How
General
R.
E.
Lee
saved the life of a Federal officer.
Index.