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presents excerpts from the soon to be re-published book (last published in 1863) by his great-great-grandson .

(We will be trying to add a new chapter every two weeks or so. )

ONE YEARS SOLDIERING.....

EMBRACING THE BATTLES OF FORT DONELSON AND SHILOH AND THE CAPTURE OF TWO HUNDRED OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE FOURTEENTH IOWA INFANTRY, AND THEIR CONFINEMENT SIX MONTHS AND A HALF IN REBEL PRISONS.

By F. F. KINER
CHAPLAIN FOURTEENTH IOWA INFANTRY.
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LANCASTER:
E. H. THOMAS, PRINTER.
1863


CONTENTS
Page
CHAPTER I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
My enlistment and beginning of Camp Life.
CHAPTER II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Our trip to Fort Donelson--The Battle.
CHAPTER III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Our Journey to Pittsburg Landing and the
approaching Battle.
CHAPTER IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
The Battle of Shiloh and our Capture.
CHAPTER V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Our trip to Corinth, Miss., Tenn., and
Mobile, Ala.
CHAPTER VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Our imprisonment in Cahawba, Ala., and
Journey to Macon, Ga.
CHAPTER VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Our Prison Life in Macon, Ga.
CHAPTER VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
More of Prison Life in Macon.
CHAPTER IX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Our Journey from Prison.
CHAPTER X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Our stay at Annapolis--Journey West--
Statement of A. Davis.
CHAPTER XI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Prison Life of ten Lieutenants from the 14th
Iowa Infantry.
CHAPTER XII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Extracts from a Speech delivered by Captain
W. C. Jones.
CHAPTER XIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
The gallant conduct of the Union Brigade at
the Battle of Corinth, October 3rd and
4th, 1862.
CHAPTER XIV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
The Conclusion

 

Biographical Sketch Table of contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3
Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 More to Come! Obituary

Transcribed and submitted by great great grandson

 

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