45

Reminiscences of Point Lookout Prison 46

A negro servant who claimed he carried white ladies' hair 47

Begging crumbs from a negro's table 47

Two patriotic soldiers and one who was out for the bounty 48

On the wharf detail, and waiting to steal something from Uncle
Sam's plentiful stores 48

The invasion of home land after Lee's surrender 52

A faithful negro servant 52

Would not let them take all the meat the man had 53

Confederate troopers commit outrages, plunder and murder 54

A hearty conscript 54

Scenes at Appomattox--Stragglers in the Union army 56

A patriotic darkey 57

An aggrieved Union soldier seeks sympathy from his Southern
people 58

Field officers of the Fifty-sixth Regiment, North Carolina troops 58

A true Virginia boy and a bit of romance 62

Col. Billy Miller's upright farm in the upright regions of Cleveland
County, and how he came to own it, with sketches of the county and
some of its people 65

Uncle Abe Wallis' visit to Washington 69

An Irish socialist 71

Seven days' fight around Richmond 71

The negro problem 75

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Transcriber's note:

Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).

The following misprints have been corrected:
"their's" corrected to "theirs" (page 6)
"Aftter" corrected to "After" (page 11)
"Compaany" corrected to "Company" (page 13)
"Irisman" corrected to "Irishman" (page 72)

Inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, and the use of
quotation marks have been retained.

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