“1861-1865. Tuskegee, Alabama. A young man’s remembrance of the war years, his fathers’ close friend William L. Yancey, Union raids under General Wilson in 1865, and “the reign of’ Reconstruction.”
“Fall of 1863. Talladega, Alabama. A young boy’s memory of a Union raid on his hometown and “the important part the women and boys and slaves played at home during the war.”