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Prologue: The Gray and the Blue
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Prologue The Grayand the Blue At the solicitation of both family and comrades, but more particularly for the benefit of my ten-year-old Grandson, Curtis Wright III, I have tried to inscribe in the following pages for him and those who may come after him such personal incidents as memory permits me to retain of my boyhood life in the Army of the South during our Civil War. I was less than fifteen years old when I ran away from home and joined the Army. The tragic events of that period have indelibly printed on memory’s tablet pictures that only death can efface, the mind recalls them more clearly than it does incidents of recent date. I have not attempted a description of great battles or the strategic movement of armies but only the true personal escapades of a boy that are known, told, retold, and discussed by all the members of the family around the fireside of your Grandfather. 1 ...