AND

LOW THEY LIVED, FOUGHT AND DIED,

FOR DIXIE.

WITH INCIDENTS & SKETCHES OF LIFE IN THE CONFEDERACY.

COMPRISING NARRATIVES OF PERSONAL ADVENTURE, ARMY LIFE, NAVAL
ADVENTURE, HOME LIEE, PARTISAN DARING, LIFE IN THE CAMP,
FIELD AND HOSPITAL: TOGETHER WITH THE SONGS, BALLADS,
ANECDOTES AND HUMOROUS INCIDENTS OF THE

WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE.

Issued by subscription only, and not fx sale in the book stores. Res.deats of any State
desiring a copy should address the publishers, and an agent will call upon them.)

BY A CONFEDERATE.

JONES BROTHERS & CO.,
RICHMOND, VA.; ATLANTA, GA.; PHILADELPHIA, PA.;
CINCINNATI, OHIO; ST. LOUIS, MO.; CHICAGO, ILI

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

то

THE MEMORY

THOSE WHO DIED FOR DIXIE,

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED.

PREFACE.

Several Southern histories of the late war have been given to the public since the close of hostilities, but no one has ventured to collect in a convenient and permanent form a record of the inside-life of the people of the South, during their struggle for independence. The Editor has thought that a volume of this kind—which shall tell simply and truthfully the story of the daring, the sufferings, and heroic fortitude of the people and soldiers of the South, and at the same time recall to mind the wit and humor, the quaint sayings and the rough camp jests by which those dark and trying days were wont to be enlivened -will prove a timely and useful contribution to the literature of the war.

The present volume does not aspire to the dignity of history, but is devoted almost entirely to those topics which the historian must of necessity pass over in silence. The Editor has grouped together in these pages the instances of personal daring, the anecdotes, the "sayings and doings" of the Grayjackets in the army and navy, the songs and ballads, and such ac

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