E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 31453-h.htm or 31453-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/31453/pg31453-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31453/31453-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/southernsoldierb01elli THE SOUTHERN SOLDIER BOY A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy by JAMES CARSON ELLIOTT, Company F, 56 Regiment N. C. T., C. S. A., 1861-'65, Shelby, N. C. [Illustration: JAMES CARSON ELLIOTT.] Historical Incidents, Reminiscences and Personal Experiences, Covering the nine months siege of Petersburg and both Prison Pens, etc., etc. Plain facts more interesting than Fiction, all from the standpoint of a Private Soldier Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, Raleigh, N. C. Copyright, 1907, by James C. Elliott. PREFACE. A readable book should instruct, entertain and amuse. The author, outside of the historical interest of this little book, has aimed to cover a broad-enough field for all classes of readers to find some nourishing food--at least in the way of variety and shifting scenes--from the standpoint of a young private.