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.

INTRODUCTION

When I first undertook to write my war experiences, I had no thought of ever publishing what I wrote. It was only intended as a family paper, written at the solicitation of my children.

If I had undertaken to write a history of Kemper's Brigade, or the Eleventh Regiment, or even of the Clifton Grays (Company C), the story would have been far less personal than are these "Personal Reminiscences," and doubtless more interesting to others, but of less interest to those for whom the sketches were originally designed.