I have written chiefly of the things I saw for myself, and yet this is in no sense the story of my personal adventures. I never wore a star on my collar, and every reader of military novels knows that adventures worth writing about never befall a soldier below the rank of major.

G. C. E.

October, 1874.


[CONTENTS.]

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I.The Mustering[1]
II.The Men who made the Army[29]
III.The Temper of the Women[56]
IV.Of the Time when Money was "Easy"[77]
V.The Chevalier of the Lost Cause[108]
VI.Lee, Jackson, and some Lesser Worthies[138]
VII.Some Queer People[169]
VIII.Red Tape[193]
IX.The End, and After[229]


THE OLD RÉGIME IN THE OLD DOMINION.