Recollections of Thomas D. Duncan, a Confederate Soldier

A first-person memoir of four years as a Confederate soldier, recounting mobilization, campaigns at Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, and the construction of fortifications, along with scouting missions and small-unit engagements. The narrator describes camp life, tactical duties as a pilot for the engineers, and the hardships of marches and combat. Interwoven are personal losses and reflections on loyalty, duty, and the vanished Old South, together with observations about the reunited nation after the conflict. The narrative blends battlefield detail, local landscape memory, and family-centered motives for preserving these recollections for descendants.