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The Story of a Confederate Boy in the Civil War


By

David E. Johnston

_of the 7th Virginia Infantry Regiment_

Author of "Middle New River Settlements"


With Introduction by

Rev. C. E. Cline, D.D.

A Methodist Minister and Chaplain of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, U.S.A.


COPYRIGHT, 1914
BY
DAVID E. JOHNSTON

PUBLISHED BY
GLASS & PRUDHOMME COMPANY
PORTLAND, OREGON




Preface


Some twenty-eight years ago I wrote and published a small book
recounting my personal experiences in the Civil War, but this book is
long out of print, and the publication exhausted. At the urgent request
of some of my old comrades who still survive, and of friends and my own
family, I have undertaken the task of rewriting and publishing this
story.

As stated in the preface to the former volume, the principal object of
this work is to record, largely from memory, and after the lapse of
many years (now nearly half a century) since the termination of the
war between the states of the Federal Union, the history, conduct,
character and deeds of the men who composed Company D, Seventh regiment
of Virginia infantry, and the part they bore in that memorable
conflict.

The chief