The author, drawing on personal recollection and unit records, recounts service with his regiment during the Civil War, describing life at the Virginia Military Institute, participation in campaigns under Stonewall Jackson, battlefield actions, and the regiment's everyday hardships. He provides terse, eyewitness accounts of maneuvers and engagements, reflections on comradeship and sacrifice, and efforts to preserve names and deeds for surviving families and posterity. The narrative mixes tactical remarks, personal reminiscence, and memorial intent.