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Under the Stars and Bars : $b or, Memories of four years service with the Oglethorpes, of Augusta, GeorgiaClark, Walter A. (Walter Augustus)

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Under the Stars and Bars : $b or, Memories of four years service with the Oglethorpes, of Augusta, Georgia

Name: Under the Stars and Bars : $b or, Memories of four years service with the Oglethorpes, of Augusta, Georgia
Author: Clark, Walter A. (Walter Augustus)

Clark, Walter A. (Walter Augustus)

Atlanta Campaign, 1864 -- Personal narratives; Clark, Walter A. (Walter Augustus); Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1862). Oglethorpe Infantry Company -- Biography; Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives; Soldiers -- Georgia -- Biog

A Change of Base                              38
    A Tramp With Stonewall Jackson                43
    Aunt Hannah                                   48
    A Ride With Belle Boyd, the Confederate Spy   50
    Home Again                                    55
    Roster of Oglethorpe Infantry                 56

  CHAPTER III.
  _Service with 12th Ga. Battalion._

    A "Little Long"                               62
    12th Ga. Flag                                 63
    Col. Hogeland's War Diary                     65
    The Parson and the Gravy                      71
    Rations                                       75

  CHAPTER IV.
  _Coast Service._

    A Study in Insect Life                        80
    Fire and Fall Back                            86
    Skirmishing for Pie                           87
    Steed and the Sugar                           88
    Our Camp Poet                                 91

  CHAPTER V.

    Dalton and Atlanta Campaign                   97
    Stripes on the Wrong Side                    107
    A Twilight Prayer Meeting                    109
    Tom Howard's Squirrel Bead                   112
    "Jim, Touch Off No. 1"                       114
    A Summer Day on the Firing Line              117
    Saved from Death by a Bible                  123
    Battle of Kennesaw                           130
    Under Two Flags                              137
    Saved from a Northern Prison by a Novel      142
    A Slave's Loyalty                            148

  CHAPTER VI.
  _Nashville Campaign._

    A Christmas Day With Forrest                 155
    Gen. Bate as a Poet and Wit                  166
    Pat Cleburne as an Orator                    168
    "Who Ate the Dog?"                           171
    Courage Sublime                              178

  CHAPTER VII.
  _The Closing Campaign._

    An Arctic Ride                               182
    A Sad Home Coming                            187
    Our Last Battle                              190
    Conclusion                                   200
    Roster Co. A, 63rd Ga.                       204

  ADDENDA.

    Oglethorpe Infantry Co. B                    214
    Roster Co. A, 9th Ga., Co. C, 2d Ga. S. S.   219

  SUPPLEMENT.

    One of My Heroes                             225
    Ben Hill and the Dog                         229
    The Rebel Chaplain and the Dying Boy in Blue 236




INTRODUCTORY.

EARLY HISTORY OF THE OGLETHORPES.

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Under the Stars and Bars : $b or, Memories of four years service with the Oglethorpes, of Augusta, Georgia

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