The Toney, Marcus B. (Marcus Breckenridge) 1840-1929 creator text utu 2026 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The privations of a private" by Marcus B. Toney is a Civil War memoir written in the early 20th century. It follows a Tennessee Confederate private through campaigns under Lee and Jackson, grueling marches and battles, hunger and sickness, capture and exchange, and postwar reflections, with chapters extending into Reconstruction and the Ku Klux Klan. The account is candid and strongly partisan, offering a Southern soldier’s perspective on the war’s causes, conduct, and costs. The opening of the memoir states the author’s aim to depict a Confederate private’s life and immediately frames the war through a pro‑Southern lens, defending slavery and blaming abolitionists. Toney then recounts enlisting with the Rock City Guards in 1861, early drills, slow rail movements, and a first campaign in the Virginia mountains under Lee—marked by rain, scant rations, failed operations on Cheat Mountain, and a brief personal exchange with Lee. He joins Stonewall Jackson’s winter expedition toward Bath and Hancock amid brutal cold, an artillery duel across the Potomac, and harrowing picket duty, then marches to Romney and back before being detached to Tennessee in time to witness Shiloh’s aftermath and the Corinth defenses. The narrative moves through Bragg’s Kentucky invasion to Perryville, where his company takes heavy losses; Toney stays behind to bury comrades and nurse the wounded, is paroled to Louisville, and experiences guarded travel, an arrest scare in Baltimore, and exchange via City Point. Returning to the Army of Tennessee, he describes the Tullahoma retreat, Chickamauga’s charges, the siege lines around Chattanooga, and the retreat after Missionary Ridge. Granted leave to Virginia, he secures a transfer to the Army of Northern Virginia, endures lean winter picket life on the Rapidan (even bartering tobacco for coffee with Union pickets), and closes this opening portion on the eve of the Wilderness as Grant crosses the river and the bands of both armies trade songs in the dark woods. (This is an automatically generated summary.) "The girl I left behind me" -- Campaign under General Stonewall Jackson -- The return to Tennessee -- Bragg's invasion of Kentucky -- The Chickamauga campaign -- Carry me back to old Virginia -- On the Rapidan -- The Wilderness campaign -- Prison life, Point Lookout, Md. -- Prison life at Elmira, N.Y. -- The privations of a citizen -- A united citizenship -- Retrospection. Release date is 2026-03-14 Bob Taylor and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Originally published: Nashville, TN: Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South, 1905 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate Soldiers -- Tennessee -- Biography Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories Confederate States of America. Army. Tennessee Infantry Regiment, 1st Toney, Marcus B. (Marcus Breckenridge), 1840-1929 E456 Nashville, TN: Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South, 1905 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78204 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78204 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134819.0 78204