| Beginning of the Great Rebellion, April 12, 1861, | 15 |
| Beginning of Three-year Service—Camp Butler and Bird’s Point—Night Trip to Belmont—A Reconnaissance into Western Kentucky, | 23 |
| New Madrid, Point Pleasant, and Island No. 10, | 39 |
| Up the Rivers to Hamburg Landing, and Thence by Land to Corinth and Cortland, Ala., | 47 |
| From Northern Alabama to Nashville, Tenn., and Its Occupation by Us—Fight at Lavergne and Many Skirmishes, | 55 |
| The Advance on Murfreesboro—Battle of Stone River—Occupation of Murfreesboro by the Federals—Cripple Creek and Tullahoma Campaign—Advance on Chattanooga and Chickamauga—Stuck in the Mud—Orders to Prevent Foraging, | 65 |
| Battle of Chickamauga—Two Days of Fearful Fighting—The Federals Holding Chattanooga, | 93 |
| My Capture by the Confederates—Good-bye to My Faithful Horse—Introduction to Confederate Diet—Packed in Box Cars During a Journey of About Nine Hundred Miles—Fearful Suffering, | 119 |
| Entrance into Belle Island Prison Pen—Discouraging Outlook—Libby Prison, and the Smith Prison, | 137 |
| Our Return to Danville—Many Sick with Smallpox—Smallpox Hospital, and Convalescent Camp, | 155 |
| Escape from Prison—Much Suffering—A Number of Narrow Escapes from Recapture and Finally Taken In, | 163 |
| Our Recapture and Return to Prison—Four Days in County Jail Behind the Bars—Journey to Richmond, and Pemberton Building, | 189 |
| My Second Entrance into Belle Island Prison Pen—Intense Suffering from Cold and Hunger—Many Die, | 199 |
| Under the Protection of “Old Glory” Once More—Caught in a Terrific Gale and Nearly Shipwrecked—Land at Annapolis, Md.—Stripped, Scoured, and Dressed in New Uniforms, | 221 |
| My Return to My Company and Regiment, May 25, 1864, | 233 |
| Reminiscences of George W. Westgate, | 245 |
| Letter from Calvin W. Hudson—His Escape, Recapture, and Escape the Second Time, | 249 |
| The Consequences of War, | 255 |
| A Chapter to the Boys and Girls, | 263 |
| Birth of “Old Glory,” | 271 |
| The Consequences of Secession, | 273 |
| A Talk with the Comrades, | 281 |
Then.
Now.
CHAPTER I.
Beginning of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, April 12, 1861.
The “Star of the West,” a United States boat, was fired upon by the rebel batteries in Charleston harbor on Jan. 9, 1861, which some people claim as the beginning of the War of the Rebellion; but the firing on Fort Sumter was the time when the war was really inaugurated.
Fort Sumter, a United States fort located at the entrance to Charleston harbor, was fired upon by the Confederates, April 12, 1861, and Major Anderson, who was in command of the fort, was obliged to surrender to them.