Owen County, Indiana

p. 1. Leaving home,  encountering the "enemy", meeting the "run-away"

p. 4. Last breakfast at home, photo's in uniform , "Civil" war, three hundred miles

p. 5. Leaving Baltimore, Merrimac and Monitor, sea-sick at Hatteras

p.6. Winter 1861 in Baltimore, dog-tents and spooning,  oysters and salt-water crab

p.8. Ship Island, "fish" story, Brandy cherries,

p.9. Pancake batter, and 25 cent donuts, Gosport script, Storm at Ship Island

p. 10.  "Sow belly", "gray backs", "borrowing"

p. 11. "Dear John", Capt. Farragut,

p.12. Slaves as contraband, "Algiers", A damsel in distress

p. 13 Louisiana Governor at New Orleans, "Ladies" of the city

p. 14. Politics of the war, searching for contraband

p. 16. Leaving town "post haste", Train ride of Co. A and B

p. 17. "Steering the boat",  Prohibition in Maine, Iowa, Kansas

p. 18. "Spoons", "quadroon girl", "Uncle Tom's Cabin", revisionist history

p. 19. Capturing the "rebel paymaster"

p. 20. "Friendly card game"

p. 22. "The Colonel has got my gun"

p. 23. The Battle of Baton Rouge, and premonitions

p. 24. Civil Service Reformers, and Supreme Court Justices, the death of his brother, Ben

p. 25. The Battle of Baton Rouge continued, Whiskey and Gun powder, casualties of war

p. 27. The wounding of the "black cloth breaches", "Buying Cotton"

p. 28.  Making  a "dash for it"

p. 29. Guard duty,  a two horse hack and more "contraband", "duck hunting"

p. 30. "No privates need apply"

p. 31. A boat ride up the canal

p. 32. "Died in Defense of his country" , Texas Cavalry

p. 34. "Withdrawing from Baton Rouge"

p. 35. Buying cotton

p. 36. Ben's ambulance run

p. 38. A hospital visit, Negro spirituals, Dick Taylor

p. 39. "..can I have your horse sir?",  fighting the Indians

p. 40. The bouncing cannon ball

p. 41. Capt.riding the cannon,bright and beautiful women of the South,a Confederate friend

p. 42. The scripture and slavery

p. 43. Charges against Col. McMillen

p. 44. Diarrhea, Officer contraband, entry at St. James Hospital

p. 45. Recalling a familiar face, "stuff lint clear through my head"

p. 46. Sisters of Charity, an "accident of war" , " couple of Irish ladies"

p. 48. Orders home

p. 49. "Travelling companion", sharks and the dead

p. 50. " Good Samaritan of NYC"

p. 51. Draft riot of NYC, and arrival at Gosport, more of  "Southern living"

p. 52. Slavery, a new "business partner"

p. 53. "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Daughters of the Confederacy

p. 54. "Former enemies",

p. 55. "Preparation for the battle", premonitions



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