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Title: The Southern Soldier Boy
A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy

Author: James Carson Elliott

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THE SOUTHERN SOLDIER BOY

A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy

by

JAMES CARSON ELLIOTT,
Company F, 56 Regiment N. C. T., C. S. A., 1861-'65,
Shelby, N. C.

[Illustration: JAMES CARSON ELLIOTT.]

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

Edwards & Broughton Printing Company,
Raleigh, N. C.

Copyright, 1907,
by
James C. Elliott.

PREFACE.

A readable book should instruct, entertain and amuse. The author, outside
of the historical interest of this little book, has aimed to cover a
broad-enough field for all classes of readers to find some nourishing
food--at least in the way of variety and shifting scenes--from the
standpoint of a young private.

And in order to understand his viewpoint, a brief sketch of the author is
admissible. Born in Cleveland County, N. C., about midway between
Charlotte and Asheville, July 12, 1845. His father, a small slaveholder
and a farmer, he was brou