Contents
Series Editors’ Preface
Editor’s Introduction
Preface
Chapter I. Leaving Home.
Chapter II. At Pilot Knob.
Chapter III. In Winter Quarters.
Chapter IV. Leaving Arcadia Seminary — The Farewell Speech.
Chapter V. In Camp At Batesville.
Chapter VI. Battle Of Cache River.
Chapter VII. After The Battle.
Chapter VIII. From Helena To Old Town — Lively Times – Gathering Cotton and Fighting Rebels.
Chapter IX. Northward Bound.
Chapter X. From Pilot Knob To Van Buren — The Army Mule, Etc.
Chapter XI. We Return To Pilot Knob.
Chapter XII. A Public Meeting.
Chapter XIII. Down The Mississippi.
Chapter XIV. Confederate Newspapers — Errors Of Southern Opinion.
Chapter XV. Magnolia Hills.
Chapter XVI. Battle Of Champion Hills.
Chapter XVII. Battle Of Black River.
Chapter XVIII. Vicksburg.
Chapter XIX. The Siege Of Vicksburg.
Chapter XX. Charge Upon Vicksburg.
Chapter XXI. After The Surrender.
Chapter XXII. At Brashear City.
Chapter XXIII. March Up The Teche Valley.
Chapter XXIV. To Texas.
Chapter XXV. First March In Texas.
Chapter XXVI. Advance Upon, and Capture Of Fort Esparenza.
Chapter XXVII. In Winter Quarters At Indianola.
Chapter XXVIII. The Year 1863 As Viewed By A Soldier — An Army Newspaper — Short Rations.
Chapter XXIX. With The Ninety-Ninth Illinois.
Chapter XXX. National Questions — Abolishing Slavery — Honest Voting — The Presidency — Views Of A Private Soldier.
Chapter XXXI. We Leave Texas and Return To Louisiana.
Chapter XXXII. From New Orleans To New York and Thence To Illinois.
Chapter XXXIII. The End Of My Soldier Life — Home Again.
Appendix A: The Normal Picket
Appendix B: A Soldier’s Letter
Appendix C: The Thirty-third in Print
Appendix D: Problems with Cotton
Notes
Bibliography
Index