Thirteen months in the Rebel Army

A first-person narrative recounts enforced service inside Confederate military ranks, moving through infantry, ordnance, cavalry, courier, and hospital duties. The account combines camp life, councils of war, battlefield engagements, captures, and escape attempts with detailed observations of logistics, weapons manufacture and blockade running, shortages, and medical conditions. Encounters with civilians and officers illustrate the seriousness and contradictions of the insurgent effort, while reflections consider morale, military organization, and the social forces that shaped conduct and suffering during the period described.