Drum Taps in Dixie
The Author—A War-Time Photograph.
DRUM TAPS
IN DIXIE
MEMORIES OF A
DRUMMER BOY
1861-1865
BY
DELAVAN S. MILLER
Watertown, N. Y.
Hungerford-Holbrook Co.
1905
Copyrighted 1905
By Delavan S. Miller
Published December, 1905
HUNGERFORD-HOLBROOK CO.
WATERTOWN, N. Y.
Affectionately dedicated
to my Wife and
Children.
Preface
A chance meeting with a comrade who was instrumental in saving from capture a piece of artillery at the second battle of Bull Run suggested one of the several sketches grouped together in this volume.
Memory awakened furnished material for those that followed, each article recalling faces, forms, scenes and incidents from out of the misty past.
“Awake but one, and lo!
What myriads rise!”
The writer has enjoyed his reminiscing. It has been a labor of love, so to speak, enabling him in a measure to live the old days over again.
The articles have been written at odd times after business hours, and should not be scrutenized too closely from a literary standpoint.
The writing of the memories of a drummer boy has been a source of pleasure and rest to the writer, who sincerely hopes that the reading of them may not weary those who, in their hours of rest, may scan these pages.
Delavan S. Miller.