CONTENTS.

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		Introductory Remarks	[9]
[Chapter I.]	—	The Magnolia Cadets	[17]
[Chapter II.]	—	The War Record of DeKalb County	[22]
[Chapter III.]	—	Labors of Love—Musical—Decatur	[36]
[Chapter IV.]	—	Labors of Love—Knitting and Sewing, and Writing Letters to “Our Soldiers”	[42]
[Chapter V.]	—	The Third Maryland Artillery—Some Old Songs	[48]
[Chapter VI.]	—	A Daring and Unique Chase—The Capture and Re-capture of the Railroad Engine, “The General”	[52]
[Chapter VII.]	—	Coming Home from Camp Chase—The Faithful Servant’s Gift—A Glimpse of Confederate Braves	[58]
[Chapter VIII.]	—	Some Social Features—Morgan’s Men Rendezvous at Decatur—Waddell’s Artillery—Visits from the Texans—Surgeon Haynie and His Song	[72]
[Chapter IX.]	—	Thomie’s Second Home Coming—He Leaves for the Front—His Christian Labors in Camp—He Describes the Battle of New Hope Church—The Great Revival in Johnston’s Army	[77]
[Chapter X.]	—	A Visit to Dalton—The Fidelity of an Oldtime Slave	[94]
[Chapter XI.]	—	A Perilous Trust	[104]
[Chapter XII.]	—	A Scene in an Atlanta Confederate Hospital	[108]
[Chapter XIII.]	—	Concealing Confederate Clothing—Valuables Carried to Atlanta—Toby Taken Ill	[113]
[Chapter XIV.]	—	The Advance Guard of the Yankee Army—I am Ordered Out—A Noble Federal	[124]
[Chapter XV.]	—	The Battle of the 22d of July, 1864—The Death of Toby	[135]
[Chapter XVI.]	—	Everett’s Desertion	[146]
[Chapter XVII.]	—	A Visit to Confederate Lines—A Narrow Escape—My Return—The Fall of Atlanta	[156]
[Chapter XVIII.]	—	The Ten Days’ Armistice—Going Out with the Confederate Clothes—Scenes at Atlanta, and at Lovejoy’s Station—The Visit to Granbury’s Brigade—The Last Interview with Thomie	[168]
[Chapter XIX.]	—	The Return Home—From Jonesboro via Augusta—Scenes and Incidents by the Way—The Lonely Journey from Stone Mountain to Decatur	[193]
[Chapter XX.]	—	On the Verge of Starvation—A Worn-out Army Horse is Found—Uncle Mack Makes a Wagon—I Make a Unique Trip—Starvation is Warded Off—Dangers and Scenes by the Way	[207]
[Chapter XXI.]	—	A Second Trip for Supplies—Gathering “Fodder” from a Cane-brake, as a Preliminary—The Lonely Journey—Changing Yankee’s Name—I Meet the Federal Raiders	[226]
[Chapter XXII.]	—	News from the Absent Brother—He Marches into Tennessee with Hood—Extracts from His Letters written on the Way—Two Ears of Parched Corn—The Night Burial of a Soldier	[243]
[Chapter XXIII.]	—	An Incident of the War—Related to the Writer by Hon. Roger Q. Mills, of Texas	[251]
[Chapter XXIV.]	—	Picking up Minie Balls Around Atlanta—Exchanging Them for Bread	[255]
[Chapter XXV.]	—	The Decatur Women’s Struggle for Bread—Sweet Singing in Hard Places—Pleasant Visitors—I Make a Trip to Alabama—The News of My Brother’s Death	[260]
[Chapter XXVI.]	—	My Mother’s Death—Rev. John S. Wilson Performs the Funeral Service	[274]
[Chapter XXVII.]	—	A Reminiscence	[281]
[Chapter XXVIII.]	—	How the Decatur Women Kept Up the Sabbath School	[289]
[Chapter XXIX.]	—	Postal Affairs—The Postmaster, Hiram J. Williams—A Life that was a Reality, but Reads like a Romance	[298]
[Chapter XXX.]	—	The Tragic Death of Sallie Durham—A Sketch of the Durham Family	[302]
[Chapter XXXI.]	—	The Death of Melville Clark	[310]
[Chapter XXXII.]	—	The Morton Family—Incidents Thrilling and Affecting	[313]
[Chapter XXXIII.]	—	Hon. Joseph E. Brown’s Pikes and Guns	[319]
[Chapter XXXIV.]	—	The Pursuit and Capture of the Andrew’s Raiders	[325]
		Confederate Love Song	[349]
		Conclusion	[351]
		Appendix	[354]