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Excerpt from The Veteran's Story Dedicated to the Heroes Who Wore the Gray During long Winter evening's the old farmer Veteran, whose retentive memory dwells on the events of the past, has told his children the incidents and stories of his soldier life in the army of Northern Virginia. At last the thought occurred to me: Why not get him to begin at the day when his company, "The Jasper Grays," left their homes in the rugged hills of old Jasper county, Miss., to go out to battle for the Southern cause, and tell the events of the four year's conflict in rotation 'till he came back home a weary, foot-sore soldier, after the surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox? In thought he carries us with him through fertile valleys where war raged wild and fierce, o'er winding mountain passes and in toilsome marches along the Potomac, James and Rappahannock. In imagination, we view with rapture the grandeur of the scenery in the fair Virginia clime. Awe fills our souls while he tells of the soldier life of Southern men when the snow and sleet had mantled valley, plain and mountain. He tells of the sentinel who stood at his post of duty for many lonely hours, keeping vigil while a weary army slumbered. Through the four year's strife, amid cannon boom and rattle of musketry, that stifled the moan of wounded and dying, the Veteran has taken us in story, showing the heroic endurance of the men in Gray and telling the greatness of the two unrivalled warriors - Lee and Jackson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Originally published in 1899 by the daughter of a veteran who served in Company F of the 16th Mississippi. This is the story of the 16th Mississippi. Also include and roster of Company F of the 16th Mississippi.

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