LIFE IN DIXIE
DURING THE WAR.

1861-1862-1863-1864-1865.

MARY A. H. GAY.

THE THIRD EDITION. (ENLARGED.)

ATLANTA, GA:
CHARLES P. BYRD.
1897.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1897,
By Mary A. H. Gay,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.
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]