PREFACE.
The Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Infantry
Roster of Officers
Roster of Company A
Roster of Company B
Roster of Company C
Roster of Company D
Roster of Company E
Roster of Company F
Roster of Company G
Roster of Company H
Roster of Company I
Roster of Company K
Roster of Company L
Faithful Colored Servants
APPENDIX.
The Famous Snowball Battle
A. J. VAUGHAN
PERSONAL RECORD
OF THE
THIRTEENTH REGIMENT,
TENNESSEE INFANTRY.
Price, 75 cents.
PRESS OF S. C. TOOF & CO.
MEMPHIS.
1897.
MOST AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
TO THE
NOBLE MOTHERS AND WIVES
OF THE
TRUE AND HEROIC MEN WHO FOR FOUR YEARS
FOLLOWED THE CONFEDERATE FLAG,
AND WHO WERE WILLING TO LAY DOWN THEIR
LIVES IN DEFENSE OF THAT CAUSE THEY
BELIEVED RIGHT AND JUST.
A. J. VAUGHAN.
PREFACE.
MY OLD COMRADES:
In writing out this record I have gone back to the morningtime of my own life, and lived once more in that otherday that not only tried, but proved men's souls. Insignificantas my work may appear as a literary production, itcarries with it the most sacred memories of the past. Inwriting, I have lived over again the days when the boomof cannon, the rattle of musketry and the old rebel yell werefamiliar sounds to our ears. If a shade of mournfulnesshovers over the failure of the cause for which these bravemen fought and many fell, it is not a mournfulness bornof regret. When we who wore the gray put away foreverthe musket and sword—and let me say, my comrades,swords and muskets that had been bravely borne—we didso in sorrow but not in malice or hate. And today, I amsure, where one of the old regiment lingers yet a little whilethis side of the dark river, he accepts in good faith the termsof his parole, and is a peaceful a