The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer
Chapter 24
Colonel H. C. Hobart 192
The advance on Murfreesboro 198
The battle of Stone River 201
A ride over the battle-field 210
The absentees 217
T. Buchanan Reid, the poet 225
The Chiefs 235
An interesting letter 244
The Third starts on the Streight raid 246
A good fighter 252
General Rosecrans angry 255
The Confederate account of Streight's surrender 267
The lame horse 268
Negley's party 277
Go out to dinner 283
Simon Bolivar Buckner (colored) 284
Advance on Tullahoma 285
The retreat of the enemy 290
The Peace party 297
Fact vs. Fiction 299
Board for the examination of applicants for commissions in colored regiments 312
The advance to the Tennessee 319
Cross the Tennessee 327
Battle of Chickamauga 332
Fight at Rossville 346
Incidents at Chattanooga 348
Battle of Mission Ridge 356
March to Knoxville 359
General Sherman's letter 360
Camp at McAffee's Spring 362
Good-by 372
General H. C. Hobart's Narrative 379
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Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
Page 31, "genman" changed to "gentleman" (innocent old gentleman)
Page 42, "melancholly" changed to "melancholy" (a melancholy strain)
Page 49, "rumbbling" changed to "rumbling" (with a rumbling)
Page 62, "neccesary" changed to "necessary" (give the necessary)
Page 76, "befiting" changed to "befitting" (melody befitting so)
Page 133, "imporant" changed to "important" (equally important results)
Page 133, "to to" changed to "to" (us to Mrs. Rather)
Page 154, "fo" changed to "for" (our care for)
Page 154, "th" changed to "the" (we make the)
Page 154, "establshed" changed to "established" (when once established)
Page 170, "occurences" changed to "occurrences" (occurrences could suggest)
Page 179, word "a" added to text (form a line)
Page 183, "jeolousies" changed to "jealousies" (petty jealousies existing)
Page 274, "Vallandigham" changed to "Vallandingham" (accompanied Vallandingham outside)
Page 278, "Shirked" changed to "shirked" (they shirked by)
Page 286, "Hardie's" changed to "Hardee's" (Hardee's corps was)
Page 304, "to to" change to "to" (Wilder to this)
Page 323, "cavliers" changed to "cavaliers" (of the cavaliers)
Page 323, "sure sure" changed to "sure" (quite sure Mrs.)
Page 325, "lieutenantcy" changed to "lieutenancy" (to a second lieutenancy)
Page 329, "popuulation" changed to "population" (overflowing with population)
Page 337, word "a" added to text (form a line)
Page 380, "Chicamauga" changed to "Chickamauga" (battle of Chickamauga)
Page 386, extraneous word "in" was removed from the text in the phrase: "one of the rooms which was used as a store-room". The original read: "one of the rooms in which was used as a store-room"
Page 398, "of" changed to "off" (taking off our)
Page 400, "Bushwackers" changed to "Bushwhackers" (rendevous of the Bushwhackers)
Page 401, "Alaabma" changed to "Alabama" (into North Alabama)
Page 401, "Good-bye" changed to "Good-by" to match text.
Three instances each of secesh/sesesh were retained.
One instance each of the following words was retained:
barefooted/bare-footed whitleather/whit-leather Jerroloman/Jerroloaman
Page 234, the section reads "an assault upon our works at twelve M." in the original. It is unclear whether A. M. or P. M. was intended and so this was retained.