Transcriber’s Note Italic text has been surrounded by _underscores_. Some corrections have been made to the original text. They are listed in a second transcriber’s note at the end of the book. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE CIVIL WAR FROM A CHILD’S POINT OF VIEW PRICE 50 CENTS [Illustration: 1862] RECOLLECTIONS OF THE CIVIL WAR BY MAUD E. MORROW -------------- LOCKLAND, OHIO JOHN C. MORROW 1901 _To The 43d O. V. I. and to all who were engaged in the battle of Corinth, and to every boy who wore the blue, these pages are respectfully and patriotically dedicated by the Author._ PREFACE OR APOLOGY When one writes a book, a preface is in order. Mine shall be by way of explanation. The only apology I have to offer for writing this little personal pronoun “I” story is the very simple one that it is true. It has been said that “we never talk so well as when talking of ourselves.” Be that as it may, in telling my own story, I can tell it only in the first person. It is a story that is very dear to me, probably much more so than it will ever be to any one else. In writing it I have lived it all over, and it has been so real to me that I have seemed to be again within hospital walls, peopled by those whom I have called up from the shadows of the past. In fancy, my mother, whose name is interwoven as a golden thread throughout the fabric of the story, has been with me, and I have almost felt the “touch of a vanished hand” and heard the “sound of a voice that is still.” Page after page has been written beneath her picture on the wall, and as I have lifted my tear-blinded eyes with yearning gaze to her sweet face, the brown eyes have looked lovingly down upon me as though smiling approval upon my work. Oh, that I had undertaken it while she was yet with me!