Chapter I: Front Matter

at Decatur--Waddell’s Artillery--Visits from the Texans--
Surgeon Haynie and His Song 72

CHAPTER IX.--Thomie’s Second Home Coming--He Leaves for the
Front--His Christian Labors in Camp--He Describes the
Battle of New Hope Church--The Great Revival in
Johnston’s Army 77

CHAPTER X.--A Visit to Dalton--The Fidelity of an Oldtime
Slave 94

CHAPTER XI.--A Perilous Trust 104

CHAPTER XII.--A Scene in an Atlanta Confederate Hospital 108

CHAPTER XIII.--Concealing Confederate Clothing--Valuables
Carried to Atlanta--Toby Taken Ill 113

CHAPTER XIV.--The Advance Guard of the Yankee Army--I am
Ordered Out--A Noble Federal 124

CHAPTER XV.--The Battle of the 22d of July, 1864--The Death
of Toby 135

CHAPTER XVI.--Everett’s Desertion 146

CHAPTER XVII.--A Visit to Confederate Lines--A Narrow Escape--
My Return--The Fall of Atlanta 156

CHAPTER XVIII.--The Ten Days’ Armistice--Going Out with the
Confederate Clothes--Scenes at Atlanta, and at Lovejoy’s
Station--The Visit to Granbury’s Brigade--The Last
Interview with Thomie 168

CHAPTER XIX.--The Return Home--From Jonesboro via Augusta--
Scenes and Incidents by the Way--The Lonely Journey from
Stone Mountain to Decatur 193

CHAPTER XX.--On the Verge of Starvation--A Worn-out Army
Horse is Found--Uncle Mack Makes a Wagon--I Make a Unique
Trip--Starvation is Warded Off--Dangers and Scenes by the
Way 207

CHAPTER XXI.--A Second Trip for Supplies--Gathering “Fodder”
from a Cane-brake, as a Preliminary--The Lonely Journey--
Changing Yankee’s Name--I Meet the Federal Raiders 226

CHAPTER XXII.--News from the Absent Brother--He Marches into
Tennessee with Hood--Extracts from His Letters written on
the Way--Two Ears of Parched Corn--The Night Burial of a
Soldier 243

CHAPTER XXIII.--An Incident of the War--Related to the Writer
by Hon. Roger Q. Mills, of Texas 251

CHAPTER XXIV.--Picking up Minie Balls Around Atlanta--
Exchanging Them for Bread 255

CHAPTER XXV.--The Decatur Women’s Struggle for Bread--Sweet
Singing in Hard Places--Pleasant Visitors--I Make a Trip
to Alabama--The News of My Brother’s Death 260

CHAPTER XXVI.--My Mother’s Death--Rev. John S. Wilson
Performs the Funeral Service 274

CHAPTER XXVII.--A Reminiscence 281

CHAPTER XXVIII.--How the Decatur Women Kept Up the Sabbath
School 289

CHAPTER XXIX.--Postal Affairs--The Postmaster, Hiram J.
Williams--A Life that was a Reality, but Reads like a
Romance 298

CHAPTER XXX.--The Tragic Death of Sallie Durham--A Sketch of
the Durham Family 302

CHAPTER XXXI.--The Death of Melville Clark 310

CHAPTER XXXII.--The Morton Family--Incidents Thrilling and
Affecting 313

CHAPTER XXXIII.--Hon. Joseph E. Brown’s Pikes and Guns 319

CHAPTER XXXIV.--The Pursuit and Capture of the Andrew’s
Raiders 325

CONFEDERATE LOVE SONG 349