Myrta Lockett Avary

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I HOME LIFE IN A SOUTHERN HARBOR

CHAPTER II HOW I MET DAN GREY

CHAPTER III THE FIRST DAYS OF THE CONFEDERACY

CHAPTER IV THE REALITIES OF WAR

CHAPTER V I MEET BELLE BOYD AND SEE DICK IN A NEW LIGHT

CHAPTER VI A FAITHFUL SLAVE AND A HOSPITAL WARD

CHAPTER VII TRAVELING THROUGH DIXIE IN WAR TIMES

CHAPTER VIII BY FLAG OF TRUCE Milicent tells how she got from Baltimore to Dixie.

CHAPTER IX I MAKE UP MY MIND TO RUN THE BLOCKADE

CHAPTER X I CROSS THE COUNTRY IN AN AMBULANCE AND THE PAMUNKEY ON A LIGHTER

CHAPTER XI THE OLD ORDER

CHAPTER XII A DANGEROUS MASQUERADE

CHAPTER XIII A LAST FAREWELL

CHAPTER XIV THE LITTLE JEW BOY AND THE PROVOST'S DEPUTY

CHAPTER XV I FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY

CHAPTER XVI THE FLOWER OF CHIVALRY

CHAPTER XVII PRISONERS OF THE UNITED STATES

CHAPTER XVIII WITHIN OUR LINES

CHAPTER XIX MY COMRADE GENERAL JEB STUART

CHAPTER XX "WHOSE BUSINESS 'TIS TO DIE"

CHAPTER XXI RESCUED BY THE FOE Milicent's arrest in Washington as related by herself.

CHAPTER XXII WITH DAN AT CHARLOTTESVILLE

CHAPTER XXIII "INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH"

CHAPTER XXIV BY THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH

CHAPTER XXV THE BEGINNING OF THE END

CHAPTER XXVI HOW WE LIVED IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CONFEDERACY

CHAPTER XXVII UNDER THE STARS AND STRIPES

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

A VIRGINIA GIRL IN THE CIVIL WAR

A VIRGINIA GIRL
IN THE CIVIL WAR
1861-1865

BEING A RECORD OF THE ACTUAL EXPERIENCES
OF THE WIFE OF A CONFEDERATE OFFICER
COLLECTED AND EDITED BY
MYRTA LOCKETT AVARY



NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1903

Copyright, 1903
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY


Published February, 1903