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The political and social conditions existing in both sections which induced Civil Strife |
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The militant character of the American people which made compromise impossible |
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The various manifestations of this feeling and its many phases |
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The filibustering expeditions |
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The American volunteer, his aptitude for military service and the readiness with which he acquires the instruction and habits of a soldier |
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The Bluegrass region of Kentucky |
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Its topography and the character of the soil |
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Its ante-bellum social life |
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The old-fashioned barbecue shooting match |
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The breeding of the thoroughbred and love of the race-horse |
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The recollections of early youth still haunting old age |
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Outbreak of the Civil War |
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Political sentiment in Missouri |
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Blair and his Wide-Awakes |
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Organization of the Minute Men |
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Raising the Southern flag |
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Governor Jackson requests President Davis to furnish arms for capture of St. Louis arsenal |
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I am sent on this secret mission |
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The Swan carries arms from New Orleans to St. Louis |
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Vigilance committee thinks me a Federal spy |
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Am threatened with hanging |
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The Swan safely reaches St. Louis and arms successfully distributed |
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Capture of General Frost's command by Lyon |
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Preparations made to resist attack |
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I am informed that I have been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury |
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Armistice concluded between Generals Price and Harney |
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I go to Kentucky to be married |
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Return to Missouri but take service with General Hardee's forces at Pocahontas, Ark |
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Receive my first lessons in scouting |
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General Hardee is ordered to Kentucky and I go there also |
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Attempt to reach Lexington to see my wife, but am intercepted |
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Stampede at Elizabethtown |
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I escape capture by the generous aid of a Federal colonel, afterward an associate justice of the Supreme Court |
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Gen. M. Jeff Thompson, of Missouri |
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I visit his camp to obtain recruits from his brigade of Missouri State Guards for the Confederate service |
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A brief conversation with him induces me to leave without an effort to recruit |
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His headquarters at Memphis and his canoe fleet |
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A review of his brigade by some English officers and the sequel |
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``Camp Boone'' visited by a commissioner sent from Hopkinsville, Ky |
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What he didn't tell those who sent him, when he returned |
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The relations which existed between Morgan's men and Wolford's |
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How Major Coffee observed his parole, and how it resulted in a visit to Richmond |
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The extraordinary gift of speech of ``Captain Sam'' |
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How it gained him victory in political discussion and caused other wagon trains to give his the right of way |
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He comes to grief before a court martial |
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How soldiers liked strong drink and how cavalrymen procured it |
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How I got into trouble by trying to prevent them |
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Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston |
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His early service in the United States Army |
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Resigns and goes to Texas at the date of the Texan struggle for independence |
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Is appointed Commander of the Texan Army |
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Duel with Gen. Felix Houston |
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Reenters the United States Army |
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Service in the Mexican War |
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Commands the expedition sent to Utah when the Mormons threaten revolt |
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Instances of his influence and control over all who approached him |
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His conduct and death at Shiloh |
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Irregular warfare and its usually relentless ferocity |
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Guerillas and bushwhackers |
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Champe Ferguson and ``Tinker'' Dave Beattie |
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Morgan's use of the telegraph in war |
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Ellsworth, his success as an operator |
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How he ran a foot race with a jockey ``up'' |
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``Parson'' Wynne, who condemned ``horse pressing'' but thought a ``compulsory'' trade sometimes excusable |
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Profanity; how General de Polignac expressed his inability to understand camp slang, and how another Frenchman expressed his admiration of Forrest |
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Major John S. Throckmorton, of Kentucky |
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His service in Mexico with Gen. John S. Williams, and how the record subsequently figured in a political canvass |
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His service in the Confederate Army and death at the Battle of Murfreesboro |
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Gen. Humphrey Marshall, his ability and eccentricities |
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How Mr. Davis utilized one of his infirmities |
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George W. Johnson, first Provisional Governor of Kentucky during the Civil War |
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His heroic death at Shiloh |
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Col. George St. Leger Grenfell |
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His early life as a soldier of fortune |
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Subsequent service in the English Army |
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Takes part in effort to release Confederate prisoners at Chicago |
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Is arrested, tried and convicted, and drowned in an attempt to escape from the Dry Tortugas |
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Col. J. Stoddard Johnston |
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His gallant and efficient service |
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He issues proclamations in Kentucky and, fleeing from arrest, mistakes friends for Yankees |
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The Vidette, a periodical which appeared between ``raids'' |
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Sport in the army, horse racing, cock fighting and cards |
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a Ganderpulling at Christmas |
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The Civil War in Shelbyville |
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Captain Armstrong's company and Captain Armstrong's uniform |
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A new way to repel cavalry |
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The effect of Captain Armstrong's uniform on his own men |
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An optical illusion, I mistake a boy on a pony for a warrior on a charger |
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Gen. John C. Breckinridge |
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His military service and capacity |
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Conduct at Shiloh, Chickamauga, and with the Army of Northern Virginia |
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Conduct in independent command |
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Defence of the Department of South-western Virginia |
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Drives the enemy out of Bull's Gap and routs him |
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Is appointed Secretary of War |
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His ante-bellum career as member of Congress and minister to Mexico |
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Part taken in the political agitation of 1861 |
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Enters the Confederate Army |
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Serves on Albert Sidney Johnston's staff at Shiloh |
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Promoted to brigadier and then to major general |
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Splendid conduct at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga |
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Appointed minister to Mexico |
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Meeting with the bandit chief Cortinas |
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Life in Kentucky after the war |
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The negro in the South before and during the war |
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Slavery in its economic and political aspects |
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General treatment of the negroes, and relations between master and slave |
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Character of the negro and plantation life |
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Hog-killing times and Christmas |
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Negro humour, his superstition, ``spirits and witches'' |
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The ``Old Mammy,'' and the coloured ``Boss'' |
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Effect upon the negro of enlistment in the army and emancipation |
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Superstition and lack of superstition among the soldiers of the Civil War |
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A certain belief in ``luck,'' in omens and presentiments |
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Incidents of warfare which do not go into history |
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Tragedy harsher than battle, courts martial, and executions |
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An ideal encampment and a sudden summons to leave it |
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Southern hospitality during the war |
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Depreciation of Confederate money |
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High prices and small returns |
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How a Tennessee cavalryman ``belted'' the wrong horse |
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Major ``Dick'' McCann; his adventures and eccentricities |
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An examination of the muster rolls recalls many memories |
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How ``Tom'' Boss took charge of a steamboat pilot |
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How the volunteer soldier sometimes managed to ``get away'' with his officers |
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How an honest farmer found it impossible to distinguish between Yankees and rebels and was fleeced by both |
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How ``Bob'' McWilliams acquired several bouquets and a good pair of breeches |
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That malarial and melancholy ditty, ``Lorena'' |
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The question of horseflesh |
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The practical manner in which a pedigree was disproven |
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General Morgan's favourite steeds, ``Black Bess'' and the ``Bay Glencoe'' |
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The Confederate epic, ``I Lay Ten Dollars Down.'' |
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His campaign in Kentucky in 1862 |
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The possibilities of that campaign |
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Its admirable conception, feeble execution, and ultimate failure |
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Unusually favourable strategic opportunities neglected |
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Failure to concentrate and fight between Green River and Louisville permits Buell to march to Louisville unmolested |
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Failure to concentrate at Perryville |
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Declines battle at Harrodsburg and retreats from Kentucky |
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Operations preceding Battle of Chickamauga |
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Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Missionary Ridge |
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Resigns command of the Army of Tennessee |
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Is made inspector general of the Confederacy |
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Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy |
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His character and conduct the subjects of much misconception by friends and foes alike |
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One whom history will vindicate |
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Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest |
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Affair with General Kilpatrick |
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The hope of universal peace |
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Arbitration or preparation |
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Devices employed by the captives to alleviate the woes of bondage |
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I am taken from the Ohio Penitentiary by a Federal officer, whose kindness to me gets him into some trouble |
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Fifty of us are sent from Fort Delaware to be placed under fire of Confederate batteries at Charleston |
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We remain three weeks on the brig Dragoon under the guns of the frigate Wabash |
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Fishing for sharks and discussing exchange |
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Hospitably entertained at Charleston |
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When the bombardment is renewed, I am badly scared by our own guns |
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Rejoin my wife and little ones |
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Consternation caused by news of Gen. Lee's surrender |
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Confederate troops in South-western Virginia seek to join Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in North Carolina |
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We march through the mountain passes |
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Five Confederate cavalry brigades escort Mr. Davis and his cabinet from Charlotte, N. C., to Washington, Ga |
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Gen. Breckinridge, as Secretary of War commands escort |
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At Abbeville, Mr. Davis holds a council composed of the commanders of the five brigades |
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I am put in charge of the treasure brought from Richmond; it occasions me much care and concern! |
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Part of it is paid to the troops; I turn over the residue to the acting treasurer of the Confederacy and hear a touching homily on the evils wrought by gold |
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At Washington, Ga., Mr. Davis leaves us, ostensibly to escape |
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Final surrender and general parole |
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Experience of Confederate soldiers after surrender |
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How they made their way to their homes |
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My own experience in that regard |
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Social and political changes effected in the South by the war |
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Effect of emancipation upon the negro |
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Influences which induced unrest and agitation; lack of regular judicial administration; political graft; the Carpet-bagger and the Scallawag |
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The Union League and the Ku-Klux Klan |
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Political conditions in Kentucky at the close of the war |
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Attitude of the Southern whites toward the negroes |
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Religious sentiment in army life |
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The ``Exaggerated Ego''; some instances of it |
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``Baby'' Bates and Fish Cook |
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How Cook defeated a Bill for the ``better regulation of Shows and Circuses,'' requiring them to have their performances comply fully with advertisement, but thereby accomplished his own political ruin |
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An anecdote of Gen. John C. Breckinridge's early political career |
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The old time joint political discussion |
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One in which several distinguished gentlemen participated, but which became ``personal'' and serious consequences were threatened |
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The erroneous idea formerly prevalent in both the North and the South that the people of the two sections were utterly unlike |
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Some differences induced by environment; in the main all native-born white Americans much alike |
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The Southerner in fiction little like the Southerner in fact |
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Similarity between the Kentuckian and the Tennesseean |
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A question of ``Civilization'' which might have produced friction |
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An orator who wouldn't be called to order |
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The years between the Fall of the Confederacy and the establishment of the New Order |
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The struggle in the South for social and material reorganization |
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Talk of exodus to foreign lands; but few go away and nearly all go to work |
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The women of the South and the ``Daughters of the Confederacy'' |
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Cessation of duelling in the South, and how it was discouraged in Kentucky |
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The last affair of honour in which I took part |
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``Lawlessness'' in the South only a manifestation of the same spirit prevailing generally in the whole country |
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The ``Unreconstructed Rebel'' |
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Kentucky politics and politicians of the postbellum period |
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Unfortunate prevalence of partisan spirit |
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The kind of place it is, and why I like it |
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A brief sketch of its past history and some guarded remarks about its present population |
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The people I have known in Louisville; some famous journalists, lawyers, judges, physicians, and preachers, and some others who ought to have been famous |
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The Filson Club and the Salmagundi Club |
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The sort of philosophy age should cultivate |
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