MEMORIES.

A RECORD OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND ADVENTURE DURING FOUR YEARS OF WAR.

By

MRS. FANNIE A. BEERS.

PRESS OF J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY,
PHILADELPHIA.
1888.

Copyright, 1888, by Fannie A. Beers.

TO

"THE BOYS WHO WORE THE GRAY,"

WHETHER THE LOFTY OR THE LOWLY; EQUALLY TO THE SURVIVING HEROES WHO STAND BEFORE THE WORLD IN THE LIGHT OF A GLORY NEVER SURPASSED, AND TO THE MARTYRS WHOSE PATRIOT BLOOD AND SACRED GRAVES HAVE FOREVER SANCTIFIED THE LAND THEY LOVED,

THESE "MEMORIES"

ARE RESPECTFULLY AND LOVINGLY DEDICATED.

PREFACE.

For several years my friends among Confederate soldiers have been urging me to "write up" and publish what I know of the war. By personal solicitation and by letter this subject has been brought before me and placed in the light of a duty which I owe to posterity. Taking this view of it, I willingly comply, glad that I am permitted to stand among the many "witnesses" who shall establish "the truth," proud to write myself as one who faithfully served the defenders of the Cause which had and has my heart's devotion. I have tried to give a faithful record of my experiences, to "nothing extenuate nor aught set down in malice," and I have told the truth, but not always the whole truth. A few of these "Memories" were originally written for the Southern Bivouac, and are here republished because my book would have been incomplete without them.

I am very inexperienced in the business of making books, but relying with confidence upon the leniency of my friends, and feeling sure that I have no enemy who will savagely rejoice that I have written a book, I make the venture.

CONTENTS.

Introductory

PART I.

• CHAPTER I.
  
  • Alpha
• CHAPTER II.
  
  • Alabama
• CHAPTER III.
  
  • Buckner Hospital, Gainesville, Alabama
• CHAPTER IV.
  
  • Ringgold
• CHAPTER V.
  
  • Newnan, Georgia
• CHAPTER VI.
  
  • Omega
• CHAPTER VII.
  
  • Confederate Women
• CHAPTER VIII.
  
  • An Incident of the Battle of the Wilderness
• CHAPTER IX.
  
  • Fenner's Louisiana Battery
• CHAPTER X.
  
  • "Bob Wheat"

PART II.   FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

• CHAPTER I.
  
  • Nelly
• CHAPTER II.
  
  • Brave Boys
• CHAPTER III.
  
  • The Young Color-Bearer
• CHAPTER IV.
  
  • Bravery honored by a Foe
• CHAPTER V.
  
  • Sally's Ride
• CHAPTER VI.
  
  • High Price for Needles and Thread
• CHAPTER VII.
  
  • Bunny
• CHAPTER VIII.
  
  • Beauregard

PART III.  AFTER TWENTY YEARS.

• CHAPTER I.
  
  • "My Boys"
• CHAPTER II.
  
  • The Confederate Reunion at Dallas
• CHAPTER III.
  
  • Camp Nichols
• CHAPTER IV.
  
  • The March of Time
• CHAPTER V.
  
  • A Woman's Record

INTRODUCTORY.

Among those who early espoused the Southern Cause, few, perhaps, were more in earnest than my husband and myself. Our patriotism was at the very outset put to a crucial test. The duties of a soldier and a civilian became