Section I
Article titles:
1. Col. R.C. Carden Decorates Confederate Graves
2. A Confederate Flag is Used For the First Time
3.
Confederate Soldier Remembers Union Friends with Money Gifts
4. A
Letter From R.C. Carden Newton, Iowa, May 25, 1911
5. Old Confed. At
Home
6. Dr. Hammer Returns From Southern Trip
7. Memorial
To Federal Dead
8. Confederate Evacuates
9.
Beauregard and Jackson
Advocated War To
Knife
Beauregard and Jackson Advocated War to
Knife--Confederate
General Says That He and Old Stonewall
Approved
of Such Method in Retaliation--Old Letter Written to Gen.
James D. Porter Unearthed.
10. The Growing South
Section II
Article Titles:
1. Franklin's Bloody Field
Anniversary of One
of Bloodiest Battles Fought During Civil War.
The Confederates
Won
Hood's Gray-Coated Men Fought With a Courage Seemingly Born of
Desperation
2. From The Old Johnny
3. Shelbyville, Winter
Quarters of the Army Fifty Years
by C.R. Wallace
4.
Pathetic Picture
5. Flowers from the Sunny South
6. U.D.C.
Sends Flowers to Iowa
Section III
No date or author. This appears to be a newspaper
article published concerning the daily life in either Manchester, Tn or a town
near there at the time the Confederates were there and then had to retreat as
the Union Army entered. Section titles of the article are:
Capt. Jesse Ely There
Gen. Bragg Baptized
Real
Money Scarce
Army Falls Back
Government Stores
Abandoned
Section IV
1. Old Soldiers of Sixties
Confederates to
Pay Tribute to Col. Owen, Commandant of Ft. Morton
2. That is what
Isabel Worrell Ball Says of U.D.C.'s in D.A.R. Organ.
Roasts the
Convention
Says There Were So Few U.S. Flags in Hall That They Were
Lonesome--That Rebel Yell
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