# The privations of a private

Author: Toney, Marcus B. (Marcus Breckenridge), 1840-1929

Genre: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78204

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+privations+of+a+private+Toney&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The purpose of this volume is to follow the life of a Confederate private as I lived it and saw it lived by others in the great struggle of 1861-65. The causes leading to the Civil War are history, and need not be enumerated here, except to say that our New England cousins first engaged in the African slave trade, but, finding their labor not profitable in that section, sold their slaves to the Southern people, and a few years afterwards looked upon the institution as horrible and the Southern people as barbarians. Their continued onslaught against it caused the separation of the Methodist Church, and we of the Southern branch have been known as the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Many...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-privations-of-a-private-78204/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-privations-of-a-private-78204/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-privations-of-a-private-78204/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-privations-of-a-private-78204/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-privations-of-a-private-78204/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-privations-of-a-private-78204/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-privations-of-a-private-78204/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-privations-of-a-private-78204/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-privations-of-a-private-78204/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-privations-of-a-private-78204/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-privations-of-a-private-78204/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-privations-of-a-private-78204/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-privations-of-a-private-78204/chapters/7/index.md)