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100 1 _aToney, Marcus B.
_q(Marcus Breckenridge),
_d1840-1929
245 1 4 _aThe privations of a private
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-03-14
505 0 _a"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.
508 _aBob 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)
520 _a"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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNashville, TN: Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South, 1905
653 _aUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
653 _aUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories
653 _aUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate
653 _aSoldiers -- Tennessee -- Biography
653 _aTennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
653 _aTennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories
653 _aConfederate States of America. Army. Tennessee Infantry Regiment, 1st
653 _aToney, Marcus B. (Marcus Breckenridge), 1840-1929
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78204
999 _c118924
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