The Southern Soldier Boy: A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy

INDEX.

		Page.
Jamestown and its significance		5
The Jamestown Exposition		5
A tribute to Virginia		7
History of Company F, Fifty-sixth Regiment		8
Confederate monument at Shelby		35
A patriotic recruit		36
A bad case of itch		37
Longstreet’s Corps on the way to Chickamauga		38
Shooting an outlaw		39
Removing Federal prisoners from Richmond to Andersonville		40
Navigating the Appomattox River		42
Incidents in the lines		45
Reminiscences of Point Lookout Prison		46
A negro servant who claimed he carried white ladies’ hair		47
Begging crumbs from a negro’s table		47
Two patriotic soldiers and one who was out for the bounty		48
On the wharf detail, and waiting to steal something from Uncle Sam’s plentiful stores		48
The invasion of home land after Lee’s surrender		52
A faithful negro servant		52
Would not let them take all the meat the man had		53
Confederate troopers commit outrages, plunder and murder		54
A hearty conscript		54
Scenes at Appomattox—Stragglers in the Union army		56
A patriotic darkey		57
An aggrieved Union soldier seeks sympathy from his Southern people		58
Field officers of the Fifty-sixth Regiment, North Carolina troops		58
A true Virginia boy and a bit of romance		62
Col. Billy Miller’s upright farm in the upright regions of Cleveland County, and how he came to own it, with sketches of the county and some of its people		65
Uncle Abe Wallis’ visit to Washington		69
An Irish socialist		71
Seven days’ fight around Richmond		71
The negro problem		75

Transcriber’s Note:

Inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, and the use of quotation marks have been retained.

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