Two Wars: An Autobiography of General Samuel G. French Mexican War; War between the States, a Diary; Reconstruction Period, His Experience; Incidents, Reminiscences, etc.

Freedmen's Bureau--Gen. O. O. Howard, Commissioner--Platform for Reconstruction--Ironclad Oath--Natural Rights of Man--Civil Rights--Negroes Made Citizens--Persecution--Agents o...

From Lovejoy's to Lost Mountain--Big Shanty--Acworth--Destroying Railroad--In the Rear of Sherman--Situation of the Two Armies--Orders to Destroy the Etowah River Bridge--To Fil...

January, 1851, Ordered to El Paso--Capt. Sitgreaves--Sail for Havana--Barnum and Jennie Lind--Sail for New Orleans--By Steamer to Galveston--On the Gulf for Indianola--San Anton...

Monterey--Population--Gen. Ampudia--Gen. Worth--Capture a Fort--Battery in a Hot Place--Bragg's Order Countermanded--Two Long-Haired Texans--Capture the Bishop's Palace--Our Bat...

Ancestry--Thomas Ffrench--Military Aspiration--Important Document--Appointment to West Point--New Jersey Farm Life--Great Changes--A Real Yankee--Pennsylvania Hall--The Fashions...

Leave for Richmond--Ordered to Evansport, Va., to Blockade the Potomac--Worthless Ammunition--Forces on the Maryland Shore--Constant Firing All Winter--Orders to Fall Back to Fr...

Telegram from Secretary of War--Go to Richmond--Declined Going to Vicksburg--Gen. Longstreet--He Starts for Suffolk--Suffolk--Capture of a Fort and Garrison--No Report Made of t...

Leave Petersburg for Jackson, Miss.--Visit Home--My Division Composed of the Brigades of Gens. Maxey, Evans, and McNair--Extraordinary Correspondence between Gen. Johnston and P...

Aspect of the Country at Termination of the War--The Returned Confederate Soldier--Carpetbaggers--Lincoln's Vow--His Proclamation Concerning Confiscation of Slaves--How the Slav...

Cassville--The Line of Battle--Hood's Line Not Enfiladed--History of that Conference--Two Lieutenant Generals Invite Their Commander to a Council of War--Johnston Obliged to Fal...

12th. Started this morning at 4 A.M., and after a tedious march all day struck the railroad one mile above Resaca. Gen. S. D. Lee took a position in front of the works at Resaca...

Arista and His Cavalry--United States Excited--Two Hundred Thousand Men Offer Their Services--Congress Declares "War Existed by the Acts of the Mexican Republic"--Taylor Marches...

Our Army Falls Back from Kennesaw--Confederate "Rebel Yell"--Occupy Works on the Chattahoochee River--A. P. Stewart Appointed Lieutenant General--Assumes Command of the Army of...

Ordered to New Orleans--Baton Rouge--Col. W. W. S. Bliss--Maj. J. H. Eaton--Maj. R. S. Garnett--Taylor Nominated for President--Return to New Orleans--Ordered to Vicksburg--"Gen...

Drs. T. C. Madison, U. S. A., and G. M. Provost--Surgical Operation--Courtesy of a Mexican Woman--Leave Saltillo--Paltry Escort--Safe at Monterey--The Rio Grande--Maj. W. W. H....

Death of Hon. A. P. Upshur, Secretary of State--Calhoun Appointed--Treaty of Annexation of Texas--Declaration of the State of Massachusetts--Texas Accepts the Resolution of Anne...

Graduation--Commissioned Brevet Second Lieutenant, U. S. A.--Ordered to Fort Macon, N. C.--Goldsboro--Journey to Beaufort--Officers at the Fort--Life in a Casemate--Stormy Atlan...

March to Nashville--Cold Weather--Partial Investment of the City--Leave of Absence--Turn the Command Over to Brig. Gen. C. W. Sears--Battle of Nashville--Hood Not Physically Abl...

President of Mexico Resigns, and Paredes Is Elected--Mexican Troops Concentrating at Matamoras--Taylor Marches to the Rio Grande--Rattlesnakes--Mirage--Wild Horses--Taylor Conce...

Canada, Boston, Rye Beach--Antislavery Party Nominates Lincoln for President--His Election Evidence of Hostility to the South--Mississippi Secedes--Gov. Pettus--Appointed Colone...

[44] Col. Augustus Choate Hamlin, U. S. A., in his "Battle of Chancellorsville" (Bangor, Me., published by the author), says (page 27), speaking of Blenker's Division: "The men...

Return from Allatoona--Hood's Deportment--Cross the Coosa River--Devastation around Rome--Rome Burned--Garrison of Resaca Refuses to Surrender--Capture of the Seventeenth Iowa R...

Freedmen's Bureau--Gen. O. O. Howard, Commissioner--Platform for 328 Reconstruction--Ironclad Oath--Natural Rights of Man--Civil Rights--Negroes Made Citizens--Persecution--Agen...

From Lovejoy's to Lost Mountain--Big Shanty--Acworth--Destroying 223 Railroad--In the Rear of Sherman--Situation of the Two Armies--Orders to Destroy the Etowah River Bridge--To...

Leave for Richmond--Ordered to Evansport, Va., to Blockade the 140 Potomac--Worthless Ammunition--Forces on the Maryland Shore--Constant Firing All Winter--Orders to Fall Back t...

Aspect of the Country at Termination of the War--The Returned 310 Confederate Soldier--Carpetbaggers--Lincoln's Vow--His Proclamation Concerning Confiscation of Slaves--How the...

Arista and His Cavalry--United States Excited--Two Hundred 47 Thousand Men Offer Their Services--Congress Declares "War Existed by the Acts of the Mexican Republic"--Taylor Marc...

January, 1851, Ordered to El Paso--Capt. Sitgreaves--Sail for 107 Havana--Barnum and Jennie Lind--Sail for New Orleans--By Steamer to Galveston--On the Gulf for Indianola--San A...

Drs. T. C. Madison, U. S. A., and G. M. Provost--Surgical 85 Operation--Courtesy of a Mexican Woman--Leave Saltillo--Paltry Escort--Safe at Monterey--The Rio Grande--Maj. W. W....

Return from Allatoona--Hood's Deportment--Cross the Coosa 285 River--Devastation around Rome--Rome Burned--Garrison of Resaca Refuses to Surrender--Capture of the Seventeenth Io...

Our Army Falls Back from Kennesaw--Confederate "Rebel 212 Yell"--Occupy Works on the Chattahoochee River--A. P. Stewart Appointed Lieutenant General--Assumes Command of the Army...

Ordered to New Orleans--Baton Rouge--Col. W. W. S. Bliss--Maj. 96 J. H. Eaton--Maj. R. S. Garnett--Taylor Nominated for President--Return to New Orleans--Ordered to Vicksburg--"...

Leave Petersburg for Jackson, Miss.--Visit Home--My Division 178 Composed of the Brigades of Gens. Maxey, Evans, and McNair--Extraordinary Correspondence between Gen. Johnston a...

Monterey--Population--Gen. Ampudia--Gen. Worth--Capture a 61 Fort--Battery in a Hot Place--Bragg's Order Countermanded--Two Long-Haired Texans--Capture the Bishop's Palace--Our...

March to Nashville--Cold Weather--Partial Investment of the 302 City--Leave of Absence--Turn the Command Over to Brig. Gen. C. W. Sears--Battle of Nashville--Hood Not Physically...

Canada, Boston, Rye Beach--Antislavery Party Nominates Lincoln 135 for President--His Election Evidence of Hostility to the South--Mississippi Secedes--Gov. Pettus--Appointed Co...

Death of Hon. A. P. Upshur, Secretary of State--Calhoun 30 Appointed--Treaty of Annexation of Texas--Declaration of the State of Massachusetts--Texas Accepts the Resolution of A...

Graduation--Commissioned Brevet Second Lieutenant, U. S. 20 A.--Ordered to Fort Macon, N. C.--Goldsboro--Journey to Beaufort--Officers at the Fort--Life in a Casemate--Stormy At...

Cassville--The Line of Battle--Hood's Line Not 196 Enfiladed--History of That Conference--Two Lieutenant Generals Invite Their Commander to a Council of War--Johnston Obliged to...

Telegram from Secretary of War--Go to Richmond--Declined Going 159 to Vicksburg--Gen. Longstreet--He Starts for Suffolk--Suffolk--Capture of a Fort and Garrison--No Report Made...

President of Mexico Resigns, and Paredes Is Elected--Mexican 41 Troops Concentrating at Matamoras--Taylor Marches to the Rio Grande--Rattlesnakes--Mirage--Wild Horses--Taylor Co...

Ancestry--Thomas Ffrench--Military Aspiration--Important 1 Document--Appointment to West Point--New Jersey Farm Life--Great Changes--A Real Yankee--Pennsylvania Hall--The Fashio...