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Title: Reminiscences of a Rebel

Author: Wayland Fuller Dunaway

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REMINISCENCES OF A REBEL

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BY

THE REV. WAYLAND FULLER DUNAWAY, D.D.

Formerly Captain of Co. I, 40th Va. Regt.,
Army of Northern Virginia

"_Omnibus hostes
Reddite nos populis--civile avertite bellum._"
--_Lucan._

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NEW YORK
THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1913

Copyright, 1913, by
WAYLAND FULLER DUNAWAY

PREFACE

Notwithstanding the title of this volume, I do not admit that I was ever
in any true sense a rebel, neither do I intend any disrespect when I
call the Northern soldiers Yankees. The use of these terms is only a
concession to the appellations that were customary during the war.

It is my purpose to record some recollections of the Civil War, and
incidentally to furnish some historical notices of the brigade to which
I was attached. Here and there I have expressed, also, some opinions
concerning the great events of that dreadful period, some criticisms of
the conduct of battles and retreats, and some estimates of the abilities
of prominent generals.

The incentive to write is of a complex nature. There is a pleasure,
especially to the aged, in reviving the memories of the past and
narrating them to attentive hearers. Moreover, I hope that this book
will furnish instruction to those who have grown up since the war, and
entertainment to older persons who participated in its struggles,
privations, and sorrows. And besides, the future historian of that
gigantic conflict may perhaps find here some original contribution to
the accumulating material upon which he must draw. H