[De Fontaine, F. G.] Marginalia, Or, Gleanings from an Army Note-Book Columbia, S. C.: Press of F. G. De Fontaine, 1864. Correspondence of “Personne” of the Charleston Courier

Piety of southern leaders compared to northerners, 1, 3-4 Contrast between Yankees and southerners according to a Frenchman, 2-3 Heroes and bravery, 4-5 Robert E. Lee, 5-6 First Manassas, 6, 9 Stonewall Jackson, 7-8 Hatred by southern women, 8 Revolutionary father, 8-9 Officers, gentlemen, 9 Stonewall Jackson and religion, 9-10 Western Virginia mountaineers, 10-11 Loyal slave, 11-12, 16, 23 Federal and Confederate Generals, 12 Turks and Yankees, 12 Pillaging, 12-13 John Hunt Morgan, 13-14 Murfreesboro, 14-15 Brave Confederate, 15 Davis, Beauregard, 17 Child and Confederate loyalty, 17 Yankee soldiers and woman, 17 Alcohol, 17-18 Barbarous northern generals, Butler, McNeill, Milroy, Steinwehr, 18-19 Slave, 20 Fredericksburg, 20-21 Yankee and Robert E. Lee, 21 Patriotic ministers, 22 Women nurses, 23-24 Woman and Confederate soldier, 24 Beauregard praises a private, 24-25 Women and patriotism, 25 Abraham and Mary Lincoln, 25-26 Jefferson Davis and his children, 27-28 Heroism of soldiers, 28-29 Gaines’ Mill, 29 Yankees and women prisoners, 30-31 General Steinwehr, 31-33 Old volunteers, 33 Williamsburg, young hero, 33 Albert Sidney Johnston, 33-34 General Pettigrew, 34 John C. Breckinridge, 34 Death of General Garland, 34-35

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Battle of Jackson, 35 Brave Death, 35-39 General speeches, 39 Outrages on women, 40 Brandy Station, 40-41 Brave attack, 41-42 Stonewall Jackson, 42, 52 Faithful slave, 42-43 Yankees drown slaves, small pox, 43 Jackson, Miss., Yankee vandals, 43-44 Richmond, first year of war, 44 Yankees and incendiary devices, 44-45 Mud, 45 Turchin, 45-46 John Pope, 46 Jeb Stuart cavalry, 46-47 Women, children and Yankees, 47 Turner Ashby, 47-48 Praise for Confederate soldiers, 48-49 Yankee cowards, 49 Paroling prisoners, 50 Admiral Goldsborough, 50-51 East Tennessee vandals, 51 Yankee brutal treatment of prisoners, 51-52 Hooker at Chancellorsville, 52-53 Women, 53-54 Slave and Yankees, 54-56 Brave Confederate, 56-57 Chaplain and stolen horse, 57 Homesick soldier, 58 Cotton, Mississippi guerrillas, 60-62 Death of Yankee sharpshooter, 62 John Hunt Morgan and telegraph operator, 63-64 Yankee prisoner, 64 Woman and Yankees, New Orleans, 64-66 Butler, 65-66 Vicksburg food, 66-67 Yankees, woman, rape, 67 Chambersburg, women, 67-68 Pickets, 68 Lying Yankee order, 69 Color bearer, 70 Benjamin F. Butler, 70 Nature of battles, 70-71 Yankee and slaves, 71 Tennesseans at Shiloh, 71-72

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Jefferson Davis, 73 Early, Ewell, women, flag, 73 Officers, 73-74 Shiloh, 75 Manassas, 75 Coward, braggarts, bullies, 75-76 Manassas--wounded brothers on opposite sides, 76-77 Yankees and slaves, Nashville, 77 Yankee brutality, Mississippi, 77-78 Simon Cameron, 78 Confederate straggler, 78-79 Murfreesboro, 79 Yankee oath, 79 Yankees and slaves, 79-81 Yankee cowardice, and mercenary qualities, 81 Young Confederate heroes near Island No. 10, 82-83 Yankee atrocities in Baltimore, 83-86 Banks, Stuart, Milroy, supplies, 86 Straggler, shoes, and Robert E. Lee, 86-87 Nathan Bedford Forest, 87-88 Pious slave, 88-89 Yankee raiders, Libby Prison, 89 Milroy in Winchester, 89-90 Battle of Belmont, brave slave, 90-91 George W. Randolph, pickets, 94 Jeb Stuart, 91-92 Stonewall Jackson, 92 Whiskey, 92 Yankee prison, 92-94 Lee and Antietam, 94 Death of Christian soldier, 94 Magruder, Galveston, 94-95 Kirby Smith, religion, 96 John Brown, 97-98 Bragg, marriage, furlough, 98 Robert Toombs, 99 Wheat’s Louisiana Tigers, 99-100 Women and substitutes, 100 Critique of Yankee character, Butler, 101-3 Blood and war, 103 Stonewall Jackson, 103, 105-6 Abuse of woman, 103-4 Guerrilla in Tennessee, 104-5 Ewell, Gettysburg, 106 Father and death of son at Manassas, 106 Manassas, Willie Mangum, 107

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Joseph E. Johnston, 107 Humor, camp, 107-8 Women, soldier, hospital, 108 Army Signal Corps, New Orleans, 108-10 Confederate cavalry in Pennsylvania, 110 Congressman and conscription act, 110-11 Yankees, abolitionists, Catholic churches, ministers, 111-12 Women, Chancellorsville, Sedgwick, 112 Burial, 112-13 Fraternization Fredericksburg, 113-14 Execution, desertion, 114-15 Irish recruit, 116-16 Port Hudson, 116 Butler, 116-17 Yankee and treatment of slaves, 117 Woman, Yankee, brother murdered, 117-18 Winchester, abolitionist sermon, slaves, 118-19 Confederate soldier and a pig, 119-20 Yankee murder of a woman, 120-21 Siege of Vicksburg, 121-22 Crimes and Morals of Yankee officers, 122-23 Yankees killed in explosion, 123-24 Women and black flag, 123-24 Execution, spies, Franklin, Tennessee, 124-28 Wounded man, Antietam, 128-29 Butler, 129 Stonewall Jackson, 130 Yankee provost marshal, inquisition, 130-32 Exchange of newspapers at Fredericksburg, 132 Yankee body armor, 132 Woman soldier, 133 Substitute, 134 Confederate hero, 135-36 Loyal slaves, 136-37 Stonewall Jackson, 137 Women and patriotism, 137 Scout, 138-40 Brave boy soldier, 141-42 O. Jennings Wise, Death, 142-43 Lincoln and fear, 143 Richmond hospital, 144 Woman and Yankee soldier, 144-15 Yankee outrages in Memphis, 145 Stonewall Jackson, 145 Music, 146 Woman and wounded, 146

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Women in Fredericksburg, 147 General Loring, 148 Paroled Confederate prisoners, New Orleans, 148-50 Claims to want to fight, coward, 150 Gaines’ Mill, dying South Carolina soldier, 151 Yankees in camp, 152 Butler in New Orleans, 153-55 Loyal camp slave, 155 Manassas, 156 Yankee mistreatment of slaves, 156 Draft exemption, 158 Joseph Johnston and slave woman, 158 Fredericksburg, Burnside, 159 Woman and Yankee general, 159 Mumford, New Orleans, Butler, 159 Missouri woman and Yankees, 160-62 Slave as Confederate volunteer, 162 Murfreesboro, 162 Yankee destruction, 163 Jeb Stuart and General Bayard, 163 Thinness of Davis, Stephens, and Seddon, 164 Nathan Bedford Forest, 165 Stones River, 165-67 Stonewall Jackson, 166 Faithful slave, 166-67 Cavalry, Van Dorn, Forest, 168-70 Lincoln joke, 170 Joseph E. Johnston, sentinel, 171 Siege of Vicksburg, 171-72 Confederate Irishmen, 172 Stones River, Pickets, 173 Confederate soldier tribute, 174-75 John Hunt Morgan, 175 John Bell Hood, 175 Yankee officer killed at Vicksburg, 175 Chaplain, 176-77 Flag and honor, 177-78 Emancipation Proclamation, black deserters, 178 Black Haitian minister in Washington, 179 Ridiculing slave language, 180 Jew and sentinel, 181 John Hunt Morgan, Kentucky, 182-84 Patriotic mother, sons to Confederate army, 184 Clement C. Clay, report on Yankee outrages, 185-87 Port Hudson, 187 Brave Confederate, 188

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Greenbacks, 188 Heroine at Vicksburg, 189 Yankees, black soldiers, 190-91 Gettysburg graves, 192 Boy selling pie to a Yankee, 192 Faith slave in battle, 192 Stonewall Jackson, death, 193-95 Butler, 195 Hardee and raw recruit, 195 Jeb Stuart, 196-97 Mickler scount, 197-200 Confederate style of fighting, 200-1 Heroism, 201 Williamsburg, 201 Fraternization, 202 Captured Yankee, 202 Faithful slaves, 203 Women and children in battle, 204 Flag of 10th Alabama, 204 Stonewall Jackson, 205-209 D. H. Hill, 210 Stephen D. Lee, 210 Soldier death, faithful slave, 210-11 Soldier incidents, mother, 211-12 Yankee officers driving men into battle, 212 United States debt, 213 Butler, 213 Lincoln, black troops, 214 Sherman, 214 45th Alabama, 214 Faithful slaves, 215-16 Louisiana Creoles, 215 Wendell Phillips, 216 Mississippi River, 217 Brave actions, 217-18 Army wedding, 218-20 55th North Carolina, 220 Close call, mother’s prayer, 220 Yankee chaplain stealing books, General Hoke, 221 General E. C. Wathall, 221-22 Sigel, woman, Winchester, 222 Pillow, conscripts, Murfreesboro, 222 Death of Jeb Stuart, 223 Brave North Carolina sergeant, 223 Perryville, Polk, Indiana regiment, 224 Soldier, 16th Alabama, hero, his mother, 224

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Turner Ashby 225 Petersburg, loyal slave, 225 Bradley Johnson, 226 Chaplain McCade, Hospital, 226-27 Deserter arrested by women, 227-28 Seven Days, wounded Confederate, 228 Loyal slave, 228 Conscription joke, 228-29 Robert E. Lee, 229-30 Burial truce, 230-33 Robert E. Lee food, 233 Confederate lieutenant and brother, Gettysburg, 233-34 Young Confederate soldier, 234-36 Women in Yankee lines, 236 Night in Charleston, Yankee bombardment, 237-38 General Fitzhugh Lee and soldiers, 238 Soldier and violin, 238 James Longstreet, 239 Confederate captain, 239-40 Lincoln on battlefield, jokes, 240-41 Stonewall Jackson, 241-44 How a soldier feels in battle, 244-45 Yankees and slave, 245 Foreign intervention, 245-46 Death of Reverend Isaac Lewis, 246-47 Faithful slave, 247-48 Woman and Yankees, 248

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