The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the ConfederacyLSU Press, 1971 - 444 pages Wiley offers a rare but complete portrait of the ordinary soldier of the Confederacy during the Civil War, via extensive research of letters, newspaper stories, official records, and excerpts from diary entries. |
Contents
Johnny | 10 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
PREFACE | 13 |
OFF TO THE WAR | 15 |
Frontispiece | 17 |
BAPTISM OF FIRE | 28 |
Confederate Works in Front of Atlanta | 30 |
BESETTING SINS | 36 |
Camp Theatrical Programs | 152 |
CONSOLATIONS OF THE SPIRIT | 174 |
DEAR FOLKS | 192 |
Prayer in Stonewall Jacksons Camp | 194 |
KICKING OVER THE TRACES | 217 |
The Missouri Army Argus | 222 |
Letter Written on Captured Stationery | 232 |
THE DEADLIEST | 244 |
IN WINTER QUARTERS | 59 |
A Tar Heels Sketch of Rebel Winter Quarters | 64 |
HEROES AND COWARDS | 68 |
A Rabbit in a Confederate Camp | 75 |
36 | 77 |
59 | 83 |
68 | 86 |
BAD BEEF AND CORNBREAD | 90 |
FROM FINERY TO TATTERS 90 | 108 |
Southern Women Making Clothes for the Soldiers | 110 |
TRIALS OF SOUL | 123 |
Dead Confederate Sharpshooter at the Devils Den Gettysburg | 136 |
BREAKING THE MONOTONY | 151 |
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