Personal record of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Infantry

A veteran officer recounts the formation, organization, and wartime service of a Tennessee infantry regiment, providing company-by-company rosters, lists of field and staff officers, camp life, drilling, movements, and detailed accounts of early campaigns and engagements, including river operations and the regiment's first combat. The memoir blends operational narrative with personal reminiscence and reflections on comradeship, sacrifice, and postwar reconciliation, and includes an appendix with anecdotes such as a famed snowball battle and notes on faithful servants.