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Title: Destruction and Reconstruction:
Personal Experiences of the Late War

Author: Richard Taylor

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Language: English

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DESTRUCTION AND RECONSTRUCTION:

Personal Experiences of the Late War.

by

RICHARD TAYLOR,

Lieutenant-General in the Confederate Army.

New York:
D. Appleton and Company,
549 and 551 Broadway.
1879.

Copyright by
D. Appleton and Company,
1879.

PREFACE.

These reminiscences of Secession, War, and Reconstruction it has seemed
to me a duty to record. An actor therein, accident of fortune afforded
me exceptional advantages for an interior view.

The opinions expressed are sincerely entertained, but of their
correctness such readers as I may find must judge. I have in most cases
been a witness to the facts alleged, or have obtained them from the best
sources. Where statements are made upon less authority, I have carefully
endeavored to indicate it by the language employed.

R. TAYLOR.

_December, 1877._

CONTENTS.

PAGE

PREFACE 3

CHAPTER I.

SECESSION. 9

Causes of the Civil War--The Charleston Convention--Convention
of Louisiana--Temper of the People.

CHAPTER II.

FIRST SCENES OF THE WAR. 15

Blindness of the Confederate Government--General Bragg occupies
Pensacola--Battle of Manassas--Its Effects on the North and the
South--"Initiative" and "Defensive" in War.

CHAPTER III.

AFTER MANASSAS. 22

General W.H.T. Walker--The Louisiana Brigade--The "Tigers"--Major
Wheat