The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy

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LSU 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
Homemade Envelope
248
THE GENTLER SENTIMENTS
270
MUZZLE LOADERS AND MAKESHIFTS
286
BLUE BELLIES AND BELOVED ENEMIES
308
WHAT MANNER OF
322
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
349
123
378
151
384
174
408
244
430
308
435
322
436
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