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. |