CONTENTS

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How Battles are Fought[ 1]
Joe[ 7]
Around the Camp-fire[ 11]
An Unfinished Fight[ 18]
A Family that had no Luck[ 22]
William[ 25]
A Cradle Captain[ 29]
Who is Russell?[ 31]
“Juanita”[ 48]
Scruggs[ 52]
Joe on Horseback[ 55]
A Rather Bad Night[ 57]
The Women of Petersburg[ 70]
Ham Seay[ 74]
Old Jones’s Dash[ 76]
A Woman’s Hair[ 80]
A Midnight Crime[ 85]
A Little Rebel[ 90]
Twenty-one[ 97]
A Beef Episode[ 104]
Bernard Poland’s Prophecy[ 107]
A Breach of Etiquette[ 121]
The Lady of the Green Blind[ 124]
Youngblood’s Last Morning[ 128]
Billy Goodwin[ 133]
Manassas[ 137]
My Last Night on Picket[ 143]
Griffith’s Continued Story[ 147]
A Cheerful Supper of Cheers[ 155]
How the Tar Heels Stuck[ 157]
“Little Lamkin’s Battery”[ 159]
Curry[ 171]
Gun-boats[ 175]
Two Minutes[ 179]
Si Tucker—Coward and Hero[ 182]
War as a Therapeutic Agent[ 188]
“Notes on Cold Harbor”[ 191]
A Plantation Heroine[ 203]
Two Incidents in Contrast[ 206]
How the Sergeant-major told the Truth[ 210]
Two Gentlemen at Petersburg[ 215]
Old Jones and the Huckster[ 220]
A Dead Man’s Message[ 223]
A Woman’s Last Word[ 225]
An Incomplete Story[ 228]
Random Facts[ 231]
My Friend Phil[ 237]