. Reminiscences, or, Four years in the Confederate Army : a history of the experiences of the private soldier in camp, hospital, prison, on the march, and on the battlefield, 1861 to 1865 . sleep in, in which a ten-inch shell had exploded and found the pieces lying rightwhere they had fallen and as our kind hostess requestedus to not disturb them we left them as found. After ahearty supper good nights rest and good breakfast withwine accompaniments we bade our friends good-bye andreported to headquarters, took the train and pulled outfor Jackson, Miss., where we arrived without delay a lit-tle
. Reminiscences, or, Four years in the Confederate Army : a history of the experiences of the private soldier in camp, hospital, prison, on the march, and on the battlefield, 1861 to 1865 . sleep in, in which a ten-inch shell had exploded and found the pieces lying rightwhere they had fallen and as our kind hostess requestedus to not disturb them we left them as found. After ahearty supper good nights rest and good breakfast withwine accompaniments we bade our friends good-bye andreported to headquarters, took the train and pulled outfor Jackson, Miss., where we arrived without delay a lit-tle surprised to find five of our boys and two guards, whohad walked off our boat at Greenville, (when the boys gotto the woods they captured their guards and took it afootto the nearest railroad station leading to Jackson wherethey arrived several days ahead of us). The two guardswere sent to Vicksburg and returned to their boat, so wegot five men for two in that swap. Jackson, although the capital city, was a very unpre-tentious place, located on Pearl river, with a populationof, perhaps, two thousand and built on a succession ofhills and hollows and reminded me verv much of old Mor-. Oapt, R W. Crabb. Was Ijoru near Charleston, Miss., September 25th, 1848. Joined GeneralPrices army and did courier duty before he was fourteen years old, carry-ing dispatches between Generals Price, Taylor and Marmaduke, oftenpassing through the Federal lines; was at the fall of Little Rock, inall subsequent battles west of the Mississippi river, and surrenderedon Red river June 22, 1865. At the close of the war he went toUnioutown, Ky., where he married and has since been engaged in mer-cantile pursuits. He was Stamp Deputy, United States Revenue Service,during Clevelands last term, is a working member of the Christianchurch. Mayor of Uniontown, Commander of Adam Johnson Camp , United Confederate Vetemns, and an earnest frfend of the Confed-erate soldier. BY A PRIVATE SOLDIER. 55 ganfield.
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