A Treasury of Confederate Heritage: A Panorama of Life in the South

by Swank, Walbrook D.

• ISBN13: 9781572493513
• ISBN10: 1572493518
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: White Mane Pub

Summary

This collection of 245 stories from the South presents a synopsis of Southern life, events, and culture during the Civil War.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Maps	xiii
Preface	xiv
Acknowledgments	xv
Part I: Narratives of Personal Daring and Adventure
A Daring Feat	1	(1)
In the Wrong Place	2	(1)
A Scouting Adventure on the Peninsula	3	(1)
How Butler Was Sold	4	(2)
Just Heard the News	6	(2)
Carrying Despatches to Vicksburg	8	(3)
Easily Satisfied	11	(2)
Norah McCartey	13	(2)
A Modest Request	15	(1)
Traveling to Dixie	16	(9)
Dixie	25	(1)
A Rich Letter to George D. Prentice	26	(1)
General Bragg and the Young Officer	27	(3)
Anecdotes of General Magruder	30	(1)
General Bragg's Army	31	(1)
An Incident Under a Flag of Truce	32	(1)
A Song of the South	33	(3)
Belle Boyd in the Federal Lines	36	(10)
Southern Heroism	46	(1)
A Contraband's Description of Beauregard	47	(2)
Examining Surgeons	49	(1)
Love vs. Duty	50	(1)
Which Side?	50	(1)
Tapping the Telegraph	51	(1)
Colonel Menefee's Escape	52	(1)
Intrepid Conduct of Two Boys	53	(1)
Captain Montgomery's Adventures	54	(1)
The Song of the South	55	(1)
Negro Heroism	56	(1)
The Adventures of George N. Sanders	56	(3)
Jackson on a Retreat	59	(1)
Execution of Confederate Officers	60	(6)
A Touching Incident	66	(1)
A Full-Blooded Confederate	67	(1)
The Boy-Major	68	(1)
Hardee Outdone	68	(1)
There's Life in the Old Land Yet!	69	(1)
Not down in the ``Tactics''	70	(1)
General Lee and the Officer	71	(1)
A Long Way from Headquarters	71	(1)
Belle Boyd in Prison	72	(8)
Rosecrans and the Confederate Officer	80	(1)
``Call All! Call All!''	81	(1)
Black, the Scotchman	82	(1)
A New Use for a Shell	83	(1)
An Englishman in Mississippi	84	(3)
Anecdotes of Stonewall Jackson	87	(1)
General Lee	88	(1)
Jackson at Kernstown	89	(1)
Sidney Johnson's Patriotism	89	(1)
A Slight Mistake	90	(1)
Crossing the Border	90	(8)
A Modest Wish	98	(1)
Anecdotes of General Lee	99	(1)
Stonewall Jackson and the Farmer	100	(1)
A Very Long War	101	(1)
Demoralized	101	(1)
Zollicoffer	102	(1)
Part II: The Grayjackets in Camp, Field, and Hospital
The Angel of the Hospital	103	(3)
Heroism of Southern Troops	106	(1)
Execution of Captain Webster	107	(2)
A War Picture	109	(4)
A Spicy Correspondence	113	(1)
Carrying Out His Orders	113	(1)
The Lone Sentry	114	(2)
Conscript Quakers	116	(1)
Letters to Soldiers	116	(1)
Sharp-Shooting	117	(1)
A Night Cruise in Charleston Harbor	118	(3)
Preaching Under Fire	121	(1)
``Don't Shoot There Any More---That's Father''	122	(1)
Badly Sold	123	(1)
John Pelham	124	(1)
A Just Tribute	125	(2)
Don't Belong to Butler's Army	127	(1)
Cavalry vs. Infantry	127	(1)
Destroying a Railroad	128	(1)
A Confederate Heroine	128	(1)
A Snow-Ball Battle	129	(1)
On the Battle-Field	130	(2)
The Fate of a Spy	132	(2)
The Private Soldier	134	(3)
Falling Back at the Wrong Moment	137	(1)
Somebody's Darling	137	(1)
Southern Valor	138	(2)
Mr. Davis's Trap for Grant	140	(1)
A Remarkable Adventure	140	(2)
The Closing Scenes at Shiloh	142	(7)
A Conscript Story	149	(1)
Grand Rounds	149	(1)
General Polk in a Very Tight Place	150	(1)
A Gallant Lieutenant	151	(1)
An Incident at Gettysburg	151	(1)
The Fall of Island Number Ten	152	(3)
``Stonewall Jackson's Way''	155	(1)
The Reserves at Petersburg	156	(6)
A Friendly Warning	162	(1)
Just for a Sick Man	163	(1)
Selling a Parson	164	(1)
Under Fire	164	(4)
Hard to Move	168	(2)
A Review in General Lee's Army	170	(2)
An Effort for Freedom	172	(2)
Ragged Texans---Boots and Booty	174	(1)
An Impudent Reply	175	(1)
Sad Death of a Soldier	175	(1)
Escaping from Fort Delaware	176	(1)
Endurance in Camp Life	177	(1)
Sumter in Ruins	178	(1)
Looking on at Gettysburg	179	(10)
Who Ate the Dog?	189	(1)
A Friendly Offer	190	(1)
The Neutral Cornfield	191	(1)
Life in Battery Wagner	191	(5)
Longstreet and the Spy	196	(1)
The Bible on the Battle-Field	197	(1)
General Cheatham's Escape	197	(1)
Camp Life	198	(3)
The Confederates in Maryland	201	(3)
A Story of Shiloh	204	(1)
The Band in the Pines	204	(1)
Jackson's Parting with His Old Brigade	205	(2)
The Good Samaritan	207	(1)
A Full Ration for Once	207	(1)
The Man Who Swallowed a Drum	208	(1)
The Burial of Stuart	208	(3)
The Last Six Days of the Army of Northern Virginia	211	(9)
General Green Believes He Was Shot At	220	(1)
A Hero	221	(1)
The Most Extraordinary Marches on Record	221	(1)
All Quiet Along the Potomac	222	(3)
Part III: Partisan Life and Adventure
The Guerrillas	225	(2)
The Capture of Catlett's Station	227	(2)
In the Wrong Place	229	(1)
Lieutenant McNeill's Exploit	230	(3)
A Dutchman's Opinion of Jackson	233	(1)
Insulting Women-Folks	234	(1)
Anecdote of John Morgan	235	(1)
The Marion of the War	235	(1)
Incidents of General Morgan's Career	236	(3)
A Brave Deed	239	(1)
He Wanted to See Morgan	240	(2)
Colonel Morgan Buys a Horse	242	(1)
Quick Work	243	(1)
One of Morgan's Exploits	243	(1)
A Noble Deed	244	(1)
Selling a Federal General	245	(1)
Exploit of One of Morgan's Men	246	(1)
The Kentucky Partisan	246	(3)
An Honest Foe Better Than a False Friend	249	(1)
General Morgan's Escape from the Ohio Penitentiary	250	(6)
The Death of General Morgan	256	(2)
A Patriotic Fellow	258	(1)
Narrow Escape of Van Dorn	259	(2)
Jackson's Strategy	261	(2)
A Thrilling Event	263	(1)
Stuart's Ride Around McClellan	264	(6)
The Mountain Partisan	270	(2)
Anecdote of Mosby	272	(1)
Innocent for Once	272	(1)
A Natural Movement	273	(1)
A Raid into Kentucky	273	(11)
Prompt Settlement of a Claim	284	(1)
Not Wounded	284	(1)
The Return	284	(1)
A Kind of a Sentinel	285	(1)
A Friendly Warning	286	(1)
Preferred to Die On the Field	286	(1)
The Death of Ashby	287	(2)
The Romantic Mosby	289	(2)
The Bare-Footed Boys	291	(1)
Harry Gilmor Attacks the Enemy	292	(4)
General Hardee and the Arkansas Soldiers	296	(1)
Charging Endways	297	(1)
Mosby in the Federal Lines	297	(2)
Jackson	299	(1)
He Saw Jackson	299	(2)
Part IV: The Grayjackets on the High Seas
The Naval Fight on the Mississippi River	301	(3)
The Cruise of the Alabama	304	(9)
The Fight of the ``Hatteras'' and ``Alabama''	313	(1)
The River Devils	314	(1)
Cheer Up, My Lads	315	(1)
The Attack on the Ironsides	316	(2)
The Cruise of the Florida	318	(5)
Use for Them	323	(1)
Two Things That Sounded Alike	323	(1)
A Daring Feat	324	(2)
Praise from an Enemy	326	(1)
Semmes Outwitting the Vanderbilt	326	(1)
Pleasant Hoax All Round	327	(1)
A Bold Dash	328	(1)
Anecdote of Stonewall Jackson	329	(1)
Vicksburg---A Ballad	329	(2)
The Wreck of the Vesta	331	(4)
A Burial at Sea	335	(1)
Capture of Gunboats in the Rappahannock	335	(6)
Civille Bellum	341	(1)
The Confederate Cruisers	341	(3)
Capture of the Underwriter	344	(4)
Belle Boyd Runs the Blockade	348	(4)
Capture of a Blockade Runner	352	(3)
Lucky Moment on Board the Sumter	355	(2)
Part V: Home Life in Dixie
Scene in the South Carolina Convention---Ratifying the Ordinance; Startling Scene	357	(1)
Prepared for It This Time	358	(1)
The Fredericksburg Exiles	358	(3)
Lines Written on the Back of a Confederate Note	361	(1)
A Spartan Dame and Her Young	362	(1)
The Arrest of Marshal Kane	363	(1)
A Baltimore Unconquerable	364	(3)
Proof Against Federal Gallantry	367	(1)
Charleston Women Under Fire	367	(1)
Queer Drafting in Maryland	368	(1)
A Southern Scene	368	(3)
The Death and Burial of Stuart	371	(3)
A Girl Worth Having	374	(1)
A Romance of the War	375	(1)
A Brave Boy	376	(1)
Quite the Youngest Recruit in the Service	376	(1)
Each For His Own Side	377	(1)
Home Life in the South	377	(1)
A Strange Resemblance	378	(1)
The Rebel Sock	379	(3)
Noble Southern Women	382	(1)
The Little Girl's Kindness to the Soldiers	383	(1)
Spirit of the Women of Virginia	383	(1)
Traveling Under a Flag of Truce	384	(5)
The Inauguration of President Davis	389	(3)
An Impudent Fellow	392	(1)
Letter From a Brave Woman	392	(1)
Spoken Like Cornelia	393	(1)
The Desolation in Tennessee	393	(2)
Ben McCulloch and Joe Baxter	395	(1)
The Empty Sleeve	396	(2)
A Narrow Escape	398	(1)
Graphic Picture of a Sacked City	399	(1)
Saw the Elephant	400	(1)
Banished From Home	401	(1)
A City Under Fire	401	(5)
A Traveled Lady	406	(1)
Impressment by Women---A Rich Scene	406	(2)
The Evacuation of Savannah	408	(2)
Social Life in Baltimore During the War	410	(10)
Epilogue: Postbellum North and South	420	(8)
Editor's Note	428