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1 Duke, Basil W. Reminiscences of General Basil W. Duke, C.S.A Duke, Basil W. Reminiscences of General Basil W. Duke, C.S.A. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911. Sectionalism, slavery, American character, filibustering, American volunteer, soldier habits, 3-19 Kentucky, barbecue shooting match, horses, rifle, 19-32 Secession sentiment in Missouri, Claiborne Jackson, Blair, Lyon, St. Louis, armory, Wide Awakes, arms, New Madrid, Sterling Price, Harney, Hardee, Hindman, 32-63 Scouting duty, Hardee, Cleburne, Kentucky, Lexington, 63-78 M. Jeff Thompson, Missouri, Price, Hardee, recruiting, 79-81 Memphis, 82-83 Kentucky, Camp Boone, John Hunt Morgan, Wofford, attack at Lebanon, Tennessee, 84-90 Humor, Captain Sam, discipline, 90-94 Alcohol, 95-99 Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston biographical sketch, Shiloh, death, 100-19 Guerrillas, Champ Ferguson, Dave Beattie, home guard, 120-26 John Hunt Morgan, telegraph, deception, 126-29 Parson Wynne, piety, impressment of horses, 129-31 Swearing, profanity, Polignac, Forrest, 131-34 Major John S. Throckmorton, 134-37 Roger W. Hansom, Kentucky, death at Stones River, 138-42 Humphrey Marshall, Jefferson Davis, 142-46 George W. Johnson, provisional governor of Kentucky, death at Shiloh, 146-50 Colonel George St. Grenfel, British, Morgan’s cavalry, arrested, Camp Douglas, drowned trying to escape Dry Tortuagas, 150-54 J. Stoddard Johnston, proclamations, flees Kentucky, John Hunt Morgan, 154-59 Vidette, Morgan newspaper, 160-63 Sport in the army, horse racing, cock fighting, cardplaying, gander pulling, Christmas, knives, 163-67 Shelby County, Captain Armstrong, 167-72 Snow, 174-75 John C. Breckinridge, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Army of Northern Virginia, Baton Rouge, New Market, Saltville Marion, Secretary of War, 176-95 William Preston, Shiloh, Stones River, Chickamauga, Mexico, 195-222 Slaves, black in the South before and after the war, plantation life, hog killing, Christmas, superstitions, mammy, emancipation, 223-42 Superstition among Civil War soldiers, luck, omens, presentiment, court martial, executions, 243-57 Hospitality for soldiers, 258-59 Refugees, 259-60 Confederate money depreciation, 261-63 Gambling, 263-65 Cavalry horses, 265-66 Dan McCann, John Hunt Morgan, 266-71 Muster rolls, incomplete recording of deaths, 272 Baking oven, 275-76 Crossing Ohio River, 276-77 1 Volunteers and relaxed discipline, officers, gambling, Morgan, 277-85 Lorena, 286-87 Horses, 287-93 Music, songs, 293-96 Bragg, Shiloh, Kentucky campaign, errors, failure to concentrate forces, Buell, Perryville, retreat, Stones River, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, 297-338 Jefferson Davis, character, 339-44 Nathan Bedford Forrest, 344-55 Prison life, Ohio Penitentiary, heated debates, 361-65 Fort Delaware, Confederate batteries at Charleston, under fire, exchanged, 366-80 News of Lee’s surrender, attempts to join Johnston in North Carolina, Jefferson Davis, John C. Breckinridge, Confederate treasure, 380-92 Journey home, 392-99 Effects of war on the South, material damage, emancipation, Freedmen’s Bureau, carpetbagger, scalawag, Union League, Ku Klux Klan, reconstruction, racial attitudes, 400-15 Religious sentiment in the army, chaplain, 416-19 Postwar life and Louisville, 459 2 .
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