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Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation

by Thomas Wallace Knox

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Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation is available in the Project Gutenberg source edition credited to Thomas Wallace Knox. Catalog subjects include United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives; Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896; Cotton growing -- Louisiana. This edition retains the source text, including any introductory material and notes.

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English
Copyright status
Public domain

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Table of contents

98 chapters

  1. 01TO THE READER.2 min
  2. 02ILLUSTRATIONS.2 min
  3. 03CONTENTS.2 min
  4. 04CHAPTER II.2 min
  5. 05CHAPTER III.2 min
  6. 06CHAPTER IV.2 min
  7. 07CHAPTER V.2 min
  8. 08CHAPTER VI.2 min
  9. 09CHAPTER VII.2 min
  10. 10CHAPTER VIII.2 min
  11. 11CHAPTER IX.2 min
  12. 12CHAPTER X.2 min
  13. 13CHAPTER XI.2 min
  14. 14CHAPTER XII.2 min
  15. 15CHAPTER XIII.2 min
  16. 16CHAPTER XIV.2 min
  17. 17CHAPTER XV.2 min
  18. 18CHAPTER XVI.2 min
  19. 19CHAPTER XVII.2 min
  20. 20CHAPTER XVIII.2 min
  21. 21CHAPTER XIX.2 min
  22. 22CHAPTER XX.2 min
  23. 23CHAPTER XXI.2 min
  24. 24CHAPTER XXII.2 min
  25. 25CHAPTER XXIII.2 min
  26. 26CHAPTER XXIV.2 min
  27. 27CHAPTER XXV.2 min
  28. 28CHAPTER XXVI.2 min
  29. 29CHAPTER XXVII.2 min
  30. 30CHAPTER XXVIII.2 min
  31. 31CHAPTER XXIX.2 min
  32. 32CHAPTER XXX.2 min
  33. 33CHAPTER XXXI.2 min
  34. 34CHAPTER XXXII.2 min
  35. 35CHAPTER XXXIII.2 min
  36. 36CHAPTER XXXIV.2 min
  37. 37CHAPTER XXXV.2 min
  38. 38CHAPTER XXXVI.2 min
  39. 39CHAPTER XXXVII.2 min
  40. 40CHAPTER XXXVIII.2 min
  41. 41CHAPTER XXXIX.2 min
  42. 42CHAPTER XL.2 min
  43. 43CHAPTER XLI.2 min
  44. 44CHAPTER XLII.2 min
  45. 45CHAPTER XLIII.2 min
  46. 46CHAPTER XLIV.2 min
  47. 47CHAPTER XLV.2 min
  48. 48CHAPTER XLVI.2 min
  49. 49CHAPTER XLVII.2 min
  50. 50CHAPTER XLVIII.2 min
  51. 51CHAPTER I.9 min
  52. 52CHAPTER II. — Section 5213 min
  53. 53CHAPTER III. — Section 537 min
  54. 54CHAPTER IV. — Section 549 min
  55. 55CHAPTER V. — Section 5513 min
  56. 56CHAPTER VI. — Section 5616 min
  57. 57CHAPTER VII. — Section 5714 min
  58. 58CHAPTER VIII. — Section 582 min
  59. 59CHAPTER IX. — Section 5911 min
  60. 60CHAPTER X. — Section 609 min
  61. 61CHAPTER XI. — Section 617 min
  62. 62CHAPTER XII. — Section 6211 min
  63. 63CHAPTER XIII. — Section 637 min
  64. 64CHAPTER XIV. — Section 6411 min
  65. 65CHAPTER XV. — Section 6513 min
  66. 66CHAPTER XVI. — Section 6611 min
  67. 67CHAPTER XVII. — Section 6712 min
  68. 68CHAPTER XVIII. — Section 682 min
  69. 69CHAPTER XIX. — Section 699 min
  70. 70CHAPTER XX. — Section 708 min
  71. 71CHAPTER XXI. — Section 717 min
  72. 72CHAPTER XXII. — Section 7216 min
  73. 73CHAPTER XXIII. — Section 736 min
  74. 74CHAPTER XXIV. — Section 7411 min
  75. 75CHAPTER XXV. — Section 759 min
  76. 76CHAPTER XXVI. — Section 7616 min
  77. 77CHAPTER XXVII. — Section 7715 min
  78. 78CHAPTER XXVIII. — Section 7818 min
  79. 79CHAPTER XXIX. — Section 798 min
  80. 80CHAPTER XXX. — Section 8011 min
  81. 81CHAPTER XXXI. — Section 819 min
  82. 82CHAPTER XXXII. — Section 827 min
  83. 83CHAPTER XXXIII. — Section 8317 min
  84. 84CHAPTER XXXIV. — Section 8427 min
  85. 85CHAPTER XXXV. — Section 857 min
  86. 86CHAPTER XXXIII. — Section 8612 min
  87. 87CHAPTER XXXVII. — Section 8716 min
  88. 88CHAPTER XXXVIII. — Section 8814 min
  89. 89CHAPTER XXXIX. — Section 897 min
  90. 90CHAPTER XL. — Section 909 min
  91. 91CHAPTER XLI. — Section 919 min
  92. 92CHAPTER XLII. — Section 9219 min
  93. 93CHAPTER XLIII. — Section 9311 min
  94. 94CHAPTER XLIV. — Section 944 min
  95. 95CHAPTER XLV. — Section 9515 min
  96. 96CHAPTER XLVI. — Section 9611 min
  97. 97CHAPTER XLVII. — Section 977 min
  98. 98CHAPTER XLVIII. — Section 988 min
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