Chapter I

Personal—Organization—Roll of company.

Enter the service—Trouble about arms.

On to Manassas—The 11th Regiment—The 1st Brigade.

Battle of Blackburns Ford—The battle begins—The enemy driven back—Incidents of the battle.

Battle of First Manassas—General Johnston to the rescue—Gen. Kirby Smith turns the tide of battle—The Rebel Yell—Under shelling—The news of victory—The enemy not pursued—Gathering the spoils.

To Centreville and Fairfax C. H.—Picket close to enemy—Exciting times on picket—Back to Centreville—The fight at Drainesville.

Fall back from Centreville—The Peninsular campaign—Yorktown lines evacuated—The battle of Williamsburg—"Give it to them"—Into a hot fire—Colonel Garland wounded—Incidents of the battle—Garland and Kemper promoted.

Back to Richmond—Battle of Seven Pines—The brigade in reserve—Into the fight at double-quick—Incidents of the battle—On the picket lines.

Seven days fights around Richmond—Battle of Gaines' Mill.

Second Manassas and Maryland campaign—Sharpsburg—Back to Virginia—From Winchester to Culpeper—To Fredericksburg.

The battle of Fredericksburg—Kemper's Brigade in reserve—Spectacular scene—Behind Marye's Hill—Sharpshooting—At home; sad loss.

To Richmond, Chester Station and Petersburg—To North Carolina—Back to Virginia at Suffolk—To Taylorsville—On to join General Lee.

Pennsylvania Campaign—Gettysburg—Back to Virginia—General Lee and the army of Northern Virginia.

To Taylorsville—At Chafin's Farm—To North Carolina again—Marching through swamps and sand—The capture of Plymouth—Companies C and G have serious experience—Incidents of the battle—The gunboat Albemarle—Col. James Dearing wins promotion—On to Washington, N. C.—Newberne again invested.

Back to Petersburg, Va.—Beast Butler—The battle of Drewry's Bluff—General Gracie's courage—Into a heavy fire at close range—Col. Richard F. Maury—Yankee brigade captured—General Whiting's failure—The Yankee flags.

To Milford and to capture—Prisoner of war—On to Washington—To Fort Delaware.

To Fort Delaware—Short Rations—Song—Prison rules.

Off for Charlestown—Alleged retaliation—On shipboard—Run aground—Short of water—In stockade—Under fire—Prison rules.

To Fort Pulaski—Rotten cornmeal and pickled rations—A plot laid.

Back to Fort Delaware—Disappointment and great suffering—Deaths on ship and burials at sea.

Yankee infamy—Conduct of the war—Sherman's march through Georgia—The dismemberment of Virginia.

Lee's surrender—Lincoln's assassination—Out of prison and at home.

Reconstruction and since.