PRIVATIONS OF A PRIVATE

By Marcus B. Toney, Company B, 1st Tennessee Volunteer Infantry

Printed for the Author, Nashville, Tenn, 1905

      INDEX

1. THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME
2. CAMPAIGN UNDER GEN. STONEWALL JACKSON
3. THE RETURN TO TENNESSEE
4. BRAGG'S INVASION OF KENTUCKY
5. THE CHICKAMAUGA CAMPAIGN (this and following chapters - to follow)
6. CARRY ME BACK TO OLD VIRGINIA
7. ON THE RAPIDAN
8. THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN
9. PRISON LIFE, POINT LOOKOUT, MD
10. PRISON LIFE AT ELMIRA, N.Y.
11. THE PRIVATIONS OF A CITIZEN
12. A UNITED CITIZENSHIP

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Pvt. Marcus B. Toney
1st Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A.
Company B

Marcus Toney enlisted May 10, 1861. Fought at the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, on October 8, 1862, and captured while attending to the wounded. Later paroled and rejoined unit. Fought at the Battles of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. While at Dalton, Georgia, in March, 1864, transferred to the 44th Virginia Company C to fight with his cousin. Fought at the Battle of the Wilderness. Captured at the Mule Shoe Salient during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia. Imprisoned during remainder of the war at Pt. Lookout, Maryland, and later at Elmira, New York. Discharged June 15, 1865. In 1905, wrote about his war experiences in the book The Privations of a Private. Died in 1929 and was buried at the Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee. The following is extracted from his book.