Memories - A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Memories, by Fannie A. (Mrs.) Beers This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Author: Fannie A. (Mrs.) Beers Release Date: May 15, 2005 [EBook #15829] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMORIES *** Produced by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. MNEMOSYNE The Goddess of Memory. (From a photograph by Washburne.) MEMORIES. A RECORD OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND ADVENTURE DURING FOUR YEARS OF WAR. B y MRS. FANNIE A. BEERS. PRESS OF J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA. 1888. Copyright, 1888, by Fannie A. Beers. TO "THE BOYS WHO WORE THE GRAY," WHETHER THE LOFTY OR THE LOWLY; EQUALLY TO THE SURVIVING HEROES WHO STAND BEFORE THE WORLD IN THE LIGHT OF A GLORY NEVER SURPASSED, AND TO THE MARTYRS WHOSE PATRIOT BLOOD AND SACRED GRAVES HAVE FOREVER SANCTIFIED THE LAND THEY LOVED, THESE "MEMORIES" ARE RESPECTFULLY AND LOVINGLY DEDICATED. PREFACE. For several years my friends among Confederate soldiers have been urging me to "write up" and publish what I know of the war.