SOUTHERN SOLDIER STORIES
J. E. B. Stuart—The Cavalier.
Southern Soldier Stories
By
George Cary Eggleston
Author of “A Rebel’s Recollections,” etc., etc.
With Illustrations by R. F. Zogbaum
New York
The Macmillan Company
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
1898
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1898,
By The Macmillan Company.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
TO “JOE”
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO THE “JOE” SO OFTEN
MENTIONED IN THESE STORIES
HE WAS MY LOVED COMRADE IN ARMS, AND A
SHARER IN ALL MY WAR EXPERIENCES
HE IS NOW
Dr. Joseph W. Eggleston
OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
PREFACE
The use of the first personal pronoun singularin any of these stories does not of necessitymean that the author had anything to do withthe events chronicled.
“I tell the story as ’twas told to me.”
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| How Battles are Fought | 1 |
| Joe | 7 |
| Around the Camp-fire | 11 |
| An Unfinished Fight | 18 |
| A Family that had no Luck | 22 |
| William | 25 |
| A Cradle Captain | 29 |
| Who is Russell? | 31 |
| “Juanita” | 48 |
| Scruggs | 52 |
| Joe on Horseback | 55 |
| A Rather Bad Night | 57 |
| The Women of Petersburg | 70 |