Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a time of prosperity and peace, 1843-1861
  • The OLI, Company B, and the Eighth Georgia infantry from Savannah to Bull Run, 1861
  • All quiet on the eastern front, summer of 1861-spring of 1862
  • Naval notebook, on board the CSS Georgia, Savannah Squadron, 1863
  • The capture of the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, Savannah, June 17, 1863
  • Fort Warren Prison, Boston Harbor, June 1863-October 1864
  • James River Squadron to Semmes's Brigade, 1864-65
  • Confederate veteran returns to Reconstruction Georgia, 1865
  • Courtship by correspondence, 1866-68
  • Railroad agent, bookkeeper, farmer, store owner, conductor, doctor, 1868-78
  • "Coonbottom" to Quincy, 1878-89
  • Power, kinship, and murder, 1889-91
  • Epilogue : running from scandal
  • Appendix : Tomas L. Wragg poetry.