II--ATLANTA
HOOD STRIKES
KILLING A YANKEE SCOUT
AN OLE CITIZEN
MY FRIENDS
AN ARMY WITHOUT CAVALRY
BATTLE OF JULY 22ND, 1864
THE ATTACK
AM PROMOTED
28TH OF JULY AT ATLANTA
I VISIT MONTGOMERY
THE HOSPITAL
THE CAPITOL
AM ARRESTED
THOSE GIRLS
THE TALISMAN
THE BRAVE CAPTAIN
HOW I GOT BACK TO ATLANTA
THE DEATH OF TOM TUCK'S ROOSTER
OLD JOE BROWN'S PETS
WE GO AFTER STONEMAN
BELLUM LETHALE
DEATH OF A YANKEE LIEUTENANT
ATLANTA FORSAKEN

CHAPTER XIV--JONESBORO
BATTLE OF JONESBORO
DEATH OF LIEUT. JOHN WHITTAKER
THEN COMES THE FARCE
PALMETTO
JEFF DAVIS MAKES A SPEECH
ARMISTICE ONLY IN NAME
A SCOUT
WHAT IS THIS REBEL DOING HERE?
LOOK OUT, BOYS
AM CAPTURED

CHAPTER XV--ADVANCE INTO TENNESSEE
GEN. HOOD MAKES A FLANK MOVEMENT
WE CAPTURE DALTON
A MAN IN THE WELL
TUSCUMBIA
EN ROUTE FOR COLUMBIA

CHAPTER XVI--BATTLES IN TENNESSEE
COLUMBIA
A FIASCO
FRANKLIN
NASHVILLE

CHAPTER XVII--THE SURRENDER
THE LAST ACT OF THE DRAMA
ADIEU

CHAPTER I

RETROSPECTIVE

"WE ARE ONE AND UNDIVIDED"

About twenty years ago, I think it was--I won't be certain, though--
a man whose name, if I remember correctly, was Wm. L. Yancy--I write only
from memory, and this was a long time ago--took a strange and peculiar
notion that the sun rose in the east and set in the west, and that the
compass pointed north and south. Now, everybody knew at the time that
it was but the idiosyncrasy of an unbalanced mind, and that the United
States of America had no north, no south, no east, no west. Well,
he began to preach the strange doctrine of there being such a thing.
He began to have followers. As you know, it matters not how absurd,
ridiculous and preposterous doctrines may be preached, there will be some
followers. Well, one man by the name of (I think it was) Rhett, said it
out loud. He was told to "s-h-e-e." Then another fellow by the name (I
remember this one because it sounded like a graveyard) Toombs said so,
and he was told to "sh-sh-ee-ee." Then after a while whole heaps of
people began to say that they thought that there was a north and a south;
and after a while hundreds and thousands and millions said that there was
a south. But they were the persons who lived in the direction that the
water courses run. Now, the people who lived where the water courses
started from came down to see about it, and they said, "Gents, you a