Southern Soldier Stories
SOUTHERN SOLDIER STORIES
J. E. B. Stuart—The Cavalier.
By George Cary Eggleston Author of “A Rebel’s Recollections,” etc., etc.
With Illustrations by R. F. Zogbaum
New York The Macmillan Company London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1898
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1898, By The Macmillan Company. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
TO “JOE”
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO THE “JOE” SO OFTEN MENTIONED IN THESE STORIES HE WAS MY LOVED COMRADE IN ARMS, AND A SHARER IN ALL MY WAR EXPERIENCES HE IS NOW Dr. Joseph W. Eggleston OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
The use of the first personal pronoun singular in any of these stories does not of necessity mean that the author had anything to do with the events chronicled.
“I tell the story as ’twas told to me.”
SOUTHERN SOLDIER STORIES
George Cary Eggleston
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Southern Soldier Stories
PREFACE
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
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 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
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
