The Southern Soldier Boy

About this eBook

Author

Elliott, James Carson, 1845-1936

Title

The Southern Soldier Boy: A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy

Credits

E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( www.archive.org/details/americana)

Language

English

LoC Class

E456: History: America: Civil War period (1861-1865)

Subject

Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 56th. Company F

Category

Text

eBook-No.

31453

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31453

Release Date

February 28, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( http://www.archive.org/details/americana ) — The Southern Soldier Boy
2. 2.A THOUSAND SHOTS FOR THE CONFEDERACY — By
3. 3.JAMES CARSON ELLIOTT, — Company F, 56 Regiment N. C. T., C. S. A., 1861-’65, SHELBY, N. C. — Historical Incidents, Reminiscences and Personal Experiences, Covering the nine months siege of Petersburg and both Prison Pens, etc., etc. Plain facts more interesting than Fiction, all from the standpoint of a Private Soldier
4. 4.PREFACE.
5. 5.THE SOUTHERN SOLDIER BOY. — Jamestown and Its Significance. — The Jamestown Exposition. — A Tribute to Virginia. — History of Co. F. — Supplemental to History of Company F. — Confederate Monument at Shelby. — A Patriotic Recruit. — A Bad Case of Itch. — Longstreet’s Corps Was on the Way to Chickamauga. — Shooting an Outlaw. — Removing Federal Prisoners From Richmond, Va., to Andersonville, Ga., February and March, 1864. — Navigating the Appomattox River. — Incidents on the Lines. — Reminiscences of Point Lookout Prison. — A Negro Sergeant Who Claimed He Carried White Ladies’ Hair. — Begging Crumbs From a Negro’s Table. — Two Patriotic Soldiers and One Who Was Out for the Bounty. — On the Wharf Detail and Wanting to Steal Something from Uncle Sam’s Plentiful Stores. — The Invasion of Home Land After Lee’s Surrender. — A Faithful Negro Servant. — Would Not Let Them Take All the Meat the Man Had. — Confederate Troopers Commit Outrages, Plunder and Murder. — A Hearty Conscript. — Scenes at Appomattox—stragglers in the Union Army. — A Patriotic Darkey. — An Aggrieved Union Soldier Seeks Sympathy From His Southern People. — Field Officers of Fifty-sixth Regiment North Carolina Troops. — A True Virginia Boy and a Bit of Romance. — 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. — Uncle Abe Wallis Visits Washington. — An Irish Socialist. — Seven Days’ Fight Around Richmond. — The Negro Problem.
6. 6.INDEX.

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