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.]
| PAGE | ||
| 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] |