Destruction And Reconstruction Personal Experiences Of The Late

The Army moved to Gordonsville--Joseph E. Johnston as a Commander--Valley of Virginia--Stonewall Jackson--Belle Boyd--Federals routed at Front Royal--Cuirassiers strapped to the...

Federal Post at Bayou Des Allemands Surprised--Marauding by the Federals--Salt Mines at Petit Anse--General Pemberton--Major Brent Chief of Artillery--Federal Operations on the...

The Confederate Losses at Vicksburg and Port Hudson--Federals beaten at Bayou Bourbeau--Trans-Mississippi Department, its Bureaux and Staff--A Federal Fleet and Army ascend Red...

The Fleet descends Red River to Grand Ecore--Banks concentrates his Army there--Taylor's Force weakened by General Kirby Smith--Confederates harass Rear of Federal Column--The F...

Demoralization at the North--a Corrupt Vice-President--a Hypocritical Banker--a Great Preacher profiting by his own Evil Reputation--Knaves made Plenipotentiaries--A Spurious Le...

The history of the United States, as yet unwritten, will show the causes of the "Civil War" to have been in existence during the Colonial era, and to have cropped out into full...

I was drawn from my retreat by an invitation from General Bragg, a particular friend, to visit Pensacola, where he commanded the southern forces, composed of volunteers from the...

After the action at Manassas, the summer and winter of 1861 wore away without movements of special note in our quarter, excepting the defeat of the Federals at Ball's Bluff, on...

Pursuing "the even tenor of his way," Johnston rapidly increased the efficiency of his army. Furloughed men returned in large numbers before their leaves had terminated, many br...

At length the expected order to march came, and we moved south to Gordonsville. In one of his letters to Madame du Deffand, Horace Walpole writes of the English spring as "comin...

Leaving Gordonsville, we proceeded in a southeasterly direction, passing Louisa Court House and Frederickshall, and camped at Ashland on the Fredericksburg Railway, twelve miles...

A month of rest at Richmond restored my health, which subsequently remained good; but in leaving Virginia I was separated from my brigade, endeared by so many memories. It remai...

Mention has been made of the plundering expeditions of the Federals, and the post at Bayou des Allemands was reported as the especial center from which raids on the helpless inh...

Increased activity of the enemy at Berwick's Bay in the first days of April indicated an advance; and to guard against the danger from Grand Lake, Fuller, whose wounds in the Co...

Recent events on the Mississippi made it necessary to concentrate my small force in the immediate valley of Red River. Indeed, when we lost Vicksburg and Port Hudson, we lost no...

From my resting-place on the ground at Pleasant Hill, after the battle of the 9th, I was aroused about 10 P.M. by General Kirby Smith, just arrived from Shreveport. This officer...

Prostrated by two years of constant devotion to work--work so severe, stern, and exacting as to have prevented me from giving the slightest attention to my family, even when hea...

On the 26th of March Canby invested Spanish Fort, and began the siege by regular approaches, a part of his army investing Blakeley on the same day. General R.L. Gibson, now a me...

The military collapse of the South was sudden and unexpected to the world without, but by no means so to some within. I happen to know that one or two of our ablest and most tru...

The following considerations induced me to make a pilgrimage to Washington, where, by accident of fortune, I had a larger acquaintance with influential politicians than other So...

Before the conventions to nominate candidates for the Presidency met in 1868, I had much intercourse with General Grant, and found him ever modest and determined to steer clear...

Dismissing hope of making my small voice heard in mitigation of the woes of my State, in May, 1873, I went to Europe and remained many months. Returned to New York, I found that...