CONTENTS

[Chapter I]

Personal—Organization—Roll of company.

[Chapter II]

Enter the service—Trouble about arms.

[Chapter III]

On to Manassas—The 11th Regiment—The 1st Brigade.

[Chapter IV]

Battle of Blackburns Ford—The battle begins—The enemy driven back—Incidents of the battle.

[Chapter V]

Battle of First Manassas—General Johnston to the rescue—Gen. Kirby Smith turns the tide of battle—The Rebel Yell—Under shelling—The news of victory—The enemy not pursued—Gathering the spoils.

[Chapter VI]

To Centreville and Fairfax C. H.—Picket close to enemy—Exciting times on picket—Back to Centreville—The fight at Drainesville.

[Chapter VII]

Fall back from Centreville—The Peninsular campaign—Yorktown lines evacuated—The battle of Williamsburg—"Give it to them"—Into a hot fire—Colonel Garland wounded—Incidents of the battle—Garland and Kemper promoted.

[Chapter VIII]

Back to Richmond—Battle of Seven Pines—The brigade in reserve—Into the fight at double-quick—Incidents of the battle—On the picket lines.

[Chapter IX]

Seven days fights around Richmond—Battle of Gaines' Mill.

[Chapter X]

Second Manassas and Maryland campaign—Sharpsburg—Back to Virginia—From Winchester to Culpeper—To Fredericksburg.

[Chapter XI]

The battle of Fredericksburg—Kemper's Brigade in reserve—Spectacular scene—Behind Marye's Hill—Sharpshooting—At home; sad loss.

[Chapter XII]

To Richmond, Chester Station and Petersburg—To North Carolina—Back to Virginia at Suffolk—To Taylorsville—On to join General Lee.

[Chapter XIII]

Pennsylvania Campaign—Gettysburg—Back to Virginia—General Lee and the army of Northern Virginia.

[Chapter XIV]

To Taylorsville—At Chafin's Farm—To North Carolina again—Marching through swamps and sand—The capture of Plymouth—Companies C and G have serious experience—Incidents of the battle—The gunboat Albemarle—Col. James Dearing wins promotion—On to Washington, N. C.—Newberne again invested.

[Chapter XV]

Back to Petersburg, Va.—Beast Butler—The battle of Drewry's Bluff—General Gracie's courage—Into a heavy fire at close range—Col. Richard F. Maury—Yankee brigade captured—General Whiting's failure—The Yankee flags.

[Chapter XVI]

To Milford and to capture—Prisoner of war—On to Washington—To Fort Delaware.

[Chapter XVII]

To Fort Delaware—Short Rations—Song—Prison rules.

[Chapter XVIII]

Off for Charlestown—Alleged retaliation—On shipboard—Run aground—Short of water—In stockade—Under fire—Prison rules.

[Chapter XIX]

To Fort Pulaski—Rotten cornmeal and pickled rations—A plot laid.

[Chapter XX]

Back to Fort Delaware—Disappointment and great suffering—Deaths on ship and burials at sea.

[Chapter XXI]

Yankee infamy—Conduct of the war—Sherman's march through Georgia—The dismemberment of Virginia.

[Chapter XXII]

Lee's surrender—Lincoln's assassination—Out of prison and at home.

[Chapter XXIII]

Reconstruction and since.