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| Introduction.—Yankee fiction.—Reasons for making a full confession. | 25 |
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| Early history of the Hildebrand family.—Their settlement in St. Francois county, Mo.—Sam Hildebrand born.—Troublesome neighbors.—Union sentiments. | 29 |
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| Determination to take no part in the war.—Mr. Ringer killed by Rebels.—The cunning device of Allen Roan.—Vigilance Committee organized.—The baseness of Mobocracy.—Attacked by the mob.—Escape to Flat Woods. | 35 |
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| McIlvaine‘s Vigilance mob.—Treachery of Castleman.—Frank Hildebrand hung by the mob.—Organization of the mob into a Militia company. | 42 |
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| His house at Flat Woods attacked by eighty soldiers.—Miraculous escape.—Capt. Bolin.—Flight to Green county, Arkansas. | 48 |
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| Interview with Gen. Jeff Thompson.—Receives a Major‘s Commission.—Interview with Capt. Bolin.—Joins the Bushwhacking Department. | 54 |
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| First trip to Missouri.—Killed George Cornecious for reporting him.—Killed Firman McIlvaine, captain of the mob.—Attempt to kill McGahan and House.—Return to Arkansas. | 58 |
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| Vigilance mob drives his mother from home.—Three companies of troops sent to Big river.—Capt. Flanche murders Washington Hildebrand and Landusky.—Capt. Esroger murders John Roan.—Capt. Adolph burns the Hildebrand homestead and murders Henry Hildebrand. | 66 |
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| Trip with Burlap and Cato.—Killed a spy near Bloomfield.—Visits his mother on Dry Creek.—Interview with his uncle.—Sees the burning of the homestead at a distance. | 75 |
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| Trip with two men.—Killed Stokes for informing on him.—Secreted in a cave on Big river.—Vows of vengeance.—Watched for McGahan.—Tom Haile pleads for Franklin Murphy.—Tongue-lashed and whipped out by a woman. | 84 |
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| Trip to Missouri with three men.—Fight near Fredericktown.—Killed four soldiers.—Went to their camp and stole four horses.—Flight toward the South.—Robbed “Old Crusty”. | 91 |
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| Trip with three men.—Captured a spy and shot him.—Shot Mr. Scaggs.—Charged a Federal camp at night and killed nine men.—Came near shooting James Craig.—Robbed Bean‘s store and returned to Arkansas. | 96 |
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| The Militia mob robs the Hildebrand estate.—Trip to Missouri with ten men.—Attacks a government train with an escort of twenty men.—Killed two and put the others to flight. | 102 |
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| Federal cruelty.—A defense of Bushwhacking.—Trip with Capt. Bolin and nine men.—Fight at West Prairie.—Started with two men to St. Francois county.—Killed a Federal soldier.—Killed Addison Cunningham.—Capt. Walker kills Capt. Barnes, and Hildebrand kills Capt. Walker. | 106 |
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| Started alone to Missouri.—Rode off a bluff and killed his horse.—Fell in with twenty-five Rebels under Lieut. Childs.—Went with them.—Attacked 150 Federals at Bollinger‘s Mill.— Henry Resinger killed.—William Cato.—Went back to Fredericktown.—Killed one man.—Robbed Abright‘s store. | 114 |
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| Started to Bloomfield with three men.—Fight at St. Francis river.—Goes from there alone.—Meets his wife and family, who had been ordered off from Bloomfield.—Capture and release of Mrs. Hildebrand.—Fight in Stoddard county.—Arrival in Arkansas. | 121 |
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| Put in a crop.—Took another trip to Missouri with six men.—Surrounded in a tobacco barn.—Killed two men in making his escape.—Killed Wammack for informing on him.—Captured some Federals and released them on certain conditions.—Went to Big River Mills.—Robbed Highley‘s and Bean‘s stores. | 128 |
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| Selected seven men and went to Negro Wool Swamp.—Attacked fifteen Federals—A running fight.—Killed three men.—Killed Mr. Crane.—Betrayed by a Dutchman, and surrounded in a house by Federals.—Escaped, killed eight Federals, recaptured the horses, and hung the Dutchman. | 136 |
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| Went with eight men.—Attacked a Federal camp near Bollinger‘s Mill.—Got defeated.—Men returned to Arkansas.—Went alone to St. Francois county.—Watched for R
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