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  1. A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie
  2. Luxuriating in Feasts and Feather Beds
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Introduction
Early Experiences in Camp
Humorous Incidents
Around Yorktown
Battle of Seven Pines
Gaines' Mill
Battle of Second Manassas
Second Manassas, Continued
Crossing Over Into Maryland
Incidents at Fredericksburg
In and Around Richmond
After Chancellorsville
Hood's Texans in Pennsylvania
Gettysburg
Reminiscences of Chickamauga
Forage for Hog Meat
A Battle 'Above the Clouds'
Strenuous Times in Tennessee
The Power of the Fiddle and the Bow
Some 'Escape' Stories
A Flight to Arms
A Thirty Day Furlough
Texas in the Battle of the Wilderness
Fun in the Trenches
Texans in Virginia
Hot Skirmishing - Wounded
Luxuriating in Feasts and Feather Beds
Adventures En Route to Texas
Fourth Texas at Gaines' Mill

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Luxuriating in Feasts and Feather Beds

Content Provider Librivox
Author Polley, Joseph Benjamin
Abstract Whether written in camp, in hospital, or in hospitable home, the letters tell a plain, unvarnished, and true story of the observations and experiences, the impressions and feelings, of a soldier whose only personal regret is that he could not be one of those whose paroles at Appomattox are patents incontestable that they fought for the right as they saw it, as long as there was a hope to encourage them. Though not intended as history, they are historical in the respect that they narrate actual occurrences in camp, on the march, and in the battle. The lady to whom all but the last were addressed was no more a myth from 1861 to 1865 than now, when, a gray-haired wife, mother, and grandmother, she presides with the grace and dignity of the truest womanhood over the home made for her by the gallant officer of the Tennessee Army, her first and only beloved, whom she wedded shortly after the close of the war. To her soldier correspondent she was the friend of one more than a friend. It was not until March of 1865 that they ever met. Her letters kept him so well-advised of all that was transpiring in Texas, and were so friendly, entertaining, and altogether "charming," that, without leave or license, he substituted that adjective for the conventional "Miss" to which she was entitled. (Summary by J. B. Polley)
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Language English
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Subject Keyword memoirs nonfiction biography & autobiography
Alternative Title A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie - Luxuriating in Feasts and Feather Beds
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