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

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INTRODUCTORY.

EARLY HISTORY OF THE OGLETHORPES.

On a winter's day in '51, in the old Capital at Milledgeville, Ga., Howell Cobb, then Governor of Georgia, gave his official sanction to an Act of the General Assembly incorporating a new military organization in the City of Augusta. If he had been told that ten years from that date he would be wearing the wreath of a Brigadier General in actual war and that the Company, to which his signature had given legal existence would be camped on Virginia