“1863. Missouri and Virginia. A young soldier recalls events in his home state in the middle of the war and then describes his trip home after being exchanged as a prisoner of war.”
“April-May 1865. Greensboro, North Carolina to Benton County, Arkansas. An Arkansas paroled soldier recalls the many intricacies of his journey home after the war.”
“December 1864. Near Eatonton, Georgia. An Arkansas rifleman remembers some interesting events from his experience in Georgia as a straggler trying to escape Sherman’s army.”
“Day came to the United States as a correspondent for the London MORNING HERALD to report conditions North and South. He landed at New York and, went to Lexington, KY, and thence to Nashville, presumably by Louisville, and on through Chattanooga,…