Under the Stars and Bars / Or, Memories of Four Years Service with the Oglethorpes, of Augusta, Georgia
UNDER THE STARS AND BARS OR, Memories of Four Years Service WITH THE OGLETHORPES, OF AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
BY WALTER A. CLARK, Orderly Sergeant.
Augusta, Ga Chronicle Printing Company. 1900.
For the gratification of my old comrades and in grateful memory of their constant kindness during all our years of comradeship these records have been written. The writer claims no special qualification for the task save as it may lie in the fact that no other survivor of the Company has so large a fund of material from which to draw for such a purpose. In addition to a war journal, whose entries cover all my four years service, nearly every letter written by me from camp in those eventful years has been preserved. Whatever lack, therefore, these pages may possess on other lines, they furnish at least a truthful portrait of what I saw and felt as a soldier. It has been my purpose to picture the lights rather than the shadows of our soldier life. War is a terribly serious business and yet camp life has its humor as well as its pathos, its comedy as well as its tragedy, its sunshine as well as its shadows.
As Co. B, of the Oglethorpes was an outgrowth of the original organization, its muster roll before and after reorganization, with a condensed sketch of its war service has been given. For this information I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Frank H. Miller and Mr. Brad Merry, as I am to the former also for data pertaining to the early history of the Oglethorpes.
Aside from the motive already named, there is another which has had some influence in inducing me to publish these memories. In the generation that has grown up since the '60's, there is a disposition to undervalue the merits of the Old South and to discount the patriotism and the courage, the sacrifice and the suffering of those, who wore the grey. If these pages shall recall to my old comrades with any degree of pleasure, the lights and shadows of our soldier life, or shall bring to the younger generation, to whom the Old South is not even a memory, a truer conception of the tender grace of a day that is dead I shall be more than repaid for the labor involved in their preparation.
Walter A. Clark
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PREFACE.
EARLY HISTORY OF THE OGLETHORPES.
OFF TO THE WAR.
ORGANIZATION OF FIRST GA. REGIMENT.
AN AMENDMENT TO THE TABLE OF LONG MEASURE.
THE LAUREL HILL RETREAT.
DONNING THE GREY.
MY FIRST MARCH.
MY FIRST SKIRMISH.
MY FIRST PICKET DUTY.
MY FIRST BATTLE.
A NIGHT STAMPEDE.
THREE LITTLE CONFEDERATES.
A CHANGE OF BASE.
A SOLILOQUY—(NOT HAMLET'S.)
"LIABLE TO DISAPPINTMENTS."
A TRAMP WITH STONEWALL JACKSON.
ASHBY AND JACKSON.
"AUNT HANNAH."
A RIDE WITH BELLE BOYD, THE CONFEDERATE SPY.
VIRGINIA.
HOME AGAIN.
ROSTER OF OGLETHORPE INFANTRY,
PRIVATES.
REORGANIZATION WITH 12th GA. BATTALION.
A "LITTLE LONG."
THE 12th GA. BATTALION FLAG.
OFF TO THE FRONT
COL. HOGELAND AND HIS WAR DIARY.
JACKSBORO.
THE PARSON AND THE GRAVY.
"THEM MOLASSES."
RATIONS.
TRANSFERRED TO THE COAST.
A STUDY IN INSECT LIFE.
SOAP AND WATER.
A SUGARED TONGUE.
FIRE AND FALL BACK
SKIRMISHING FOR PIE
STEED AND THE SUGAR
"BUTTER ON MY GREENS."
OUR CAMP POET.
THE DALTON AND ATLANTA CAMPAIGN.
BATTLE OF JONESBORO.
FURTHER MEMORIES OF THE CAMPAIGN.
"TWO AND A DOG."
STRIPES ON THE WRONG SIDE.
A CLOSE SHAVE.
A TWILIGHT PRAYER MEETING.
TOM HOWARD'S SQUIRREL BEAD.
"WHEN THIS CRUEL WAR IS OVER."
"JIM, TOUCH OFF NO. 1."
ANOTHER STAMPEDE.
A SUMMER DAY ON THE FIRING LINE.
A SQUIRREL HUNT UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
JIM THOMAS' DILEMMA.
A POOR GUN OR A POOR GUNNER.
SAVED FROM DEATH BY A BIBLE.
INCIDENTS ON THE KENNESAW LINE.
SLEEPING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
THE VICTIM OF MISPLACED CONFIDENCE.
PEDICULUS CORPORIS.
BATTLE OF KENNESAW
ROLL CALL AFTER BATTLE.
UNDER TWO FLAGS.
AN UN-DRESS PARADE.
RECKLESS COURAGE.
WATERMELON AS A PERSUADER.
SAVED FROM A NORTHERN PRISON BY A NOVEL.
A SLAVES LOYALTY.
ONE AGAINST THREE THOUSAND.
A BRAVE CAROLINA MAIDEN.
A GEORGIA "HOSS."
NASHVILLE CAMPAIGN.
A CHRISTMAS DAY WITH FORREST.
CLOSING DAYS OF THE CAMPAIGN.
PARTING WITH HARDEE.
GEN. BATE AS A POET AND WIT.
PAT CLEBURNE AS AN ORATOR.
HOOD'S STRATEGY.
A LUCKY FIND.
"WHO ATE THE DOG."
WHERE IS THE OVEN?
AMENDE HONORABLE.
COURAGE SUBLIME.
THE CLOSING CAMPAIGN.
AN ARCTIC RIDE.
CLEANED UP FINANCIALLY.
A SAD HOME-COMING.
OUR LAST BATTLE.
CONCLUSION.
ROSTER OF THE "OGLETHORPES," 1862-1865.
OFFICERS.
PRIVATES.
OGLETHORPE INFANTRY, CO. B.
SHIPS THAT DID NOT PASS IN THE NIGHT.
OGLETHORPE INFANTRY, CO. B.
OFFICERS.
PRIVATES.
MUSTER ROLL OF OGLETHORPE INFANTRY,
OFFICERS.
PRIVATES.
ONE OF MY HEROES.
THE REBEL CHAPLAIN AND THE DYING BOY IN BLUE.
Язык
Английский
Год издания
2012-10-08
Темы
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate; Clark, Walter A. (Walter Augustus); Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1862). Oglethorpe Infantry Company -- Biography; Atlanta Campaign, 1864 -- Personal narratives; Soldiers -- Georgia -- Biography; Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives