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Remainiscing in Lively Vein
“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.”
Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Eatonton Ga, loc:Macon Ga, loc:Putnam County GA, milt:Company D 2nd Arkansas Mounted Riflemen, pd:1930, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:medical, su:military, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory
Religion and Reconstruction
“1865. Kentucky and Nashville. A former Confederate chaplain comments upon the first months of Union dominance in the defeated South.”
Refugeing in War Time
“Fall 1864-Spring 1865. North Georgia. An eight-year-old girl’s experiences as she and her family tried to flee from the Union Army and then came home to Dekalb County “to find ruin.”
Refugees and Regueeing
“Unknown time. South Alabama. A memory of the many Confederate who fled the area of battles, hoping to escape “the pangs of war.”
Recuperating in the Far South
“1863. Mobile and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A wounded soldier goes “home” to recuperate and enjoy emotional support “by my old friends.”