My Dehuar OcMr 1863. WAR PICTURES FROM THE SOUTH. BY B. ESTVÀN, COLONEL OF CAVALRY IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 443 & 445 BROADWAY. 1863. E542 •F8 ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. PREFACE. I HAVE, as a refugee, for the second time set my foot upon the rocky shores of Old England, to complete, under the shelter of her glorious banner, a narrative of the remarkable events that occurred during a period of more than eighteen months' campaigning in America, the knowledge of which I acquired from my personal experience as an officer of the Confederate army. Now that my book is ready, I can confidently place it before the reader, with the assurance that these "War Pictures" have been delineated not only to the best of my ability, but with a conscientious regard to truth. Although circumstances led me to take service in the Confederate army-my long residence in the Southern States being, however, the main inducement thereto-I have not been the less disposed to do justice to both sides engaged in this lamentable contest. Thus, while ever ready to bestow my hearty admiration on all the instances that came to my knowledge of heroism, patriotic devotion, and high-principled conduct, whether displayed on the part of my own comrades or on that of their opponents, I have, on the other hand, not hesitated to lay bare the errors and blamable acts, by whomsoever committed, that have |