Recollections of Thomas D. Duncan, a Confederate Soldier. Thomas D. Duncan

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      Published by Good Press, 2021

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Table of Contents

       FOREWORD

       CHAPTER I THE TOCSIN OF WAR

       CHAPTER II MOBILIZATION

       CHAPTER III HENRY AND DONELSON

       CHAPTER IV CORINTH AGAIN THE CENTER

       CHAPTER V STRANGE OUTCOME OF A FALSE ALARM

       CHAPTER VI SHILOH

       CHAPTER VII CORINTH AFTER SHILOH

       CHAPTER VIII BATTLE OF RIENZI

       CHAPTER IX MURFREESBORO AND KENTUCKY CAMPAIGN

       CHAPTER X THE BATTLE OF CORINTH

       CHAPTER XI WEST TENNESSEE

       CHAPTER XII MIDDLE TENNESSEE

       CHAPTER XIII PURSUIT OF THE STREIGHT RAIDERS

       CHAPTER XIV CHICKAMAUGA

       CHAPTER XV WEST TENNESSEE

       CHAPTER XVI GEN. “SOOEY” SMITH

       CHAPTER XVII FORT PILLOW

       CHAPTER XVIII A PERSONAL SORROW

       CHAPTER XIX BATTLE OF BRICE’S CROSS-ROADS

       CHAPTER XX HARRISBURG AND TUPELO, MISS.

       CHAPTER XXI RAID INTO MEMPHIS

       CHAPTER XXII RAID INTO NORTH ALABAMA AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE

       CHAPTER XXIII SULPHUR TRESTLE, ALA.

       CHAPTER XXIV FOURTH INVASION OF WEST TENNESSEE

       CHAPTER XXV THE BEGINNING OF DARK DAYS

       CHAPTER XXVI THE LAST FLICKERING OF THE GREAT FLAME

       CHAPTER XXVII RECONSTRUCTION

       CHAPTER XXVIII AMERICANISM TRIUMPHANT

FOREWORD

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      Within the happy family circle, from which my children are now gone, these oft-recounted recollections became a part of their education. I permitted them to turn the pages of my memory, as the leaves of a book, that they might learn the vanished glory of the old South—the loving loyalty and the sad travail of her people. And I trust that they learned also that our unfortunate Civil War—now, thank God, nearly sixty years behind us—was a clash of honest principles.

      That there were wild-eyed agitators and extremists on both sides, and that each had its scalawags and low-flung ruffians, there can be no doubt (and some of these—alas!—still live); but the masses of the soldiers of both armies, who bore the brunt of battle and suffered the privations of those sorrowful years, were patriots; and he who speaks or writes to the contrary is an enemy to our reunited country and an element of weakness and danger in the strength of the nation.

      My two beloved daughters have prevailed upon me to record my experiences of four years as a Confederate soldier, in the form of a brief printed memoir; and so, impelled by my regard for their wishes, I enter the work for them and for their descendants, without any thought of placing a literary commodity upon the counters of the country; and yet I must so write that, wherever this volume may chance to fall into the hands of a stranger, he may find in it that one essential to such a story as this is—Truth.

      Thomas D. Duncan.