This memoir was written in 1905 by 61-year-old Samuel W. Hankins detailing his years as a Confederate rifleman from the spring of 1861, when at a he volunteered for the 2d Mississippi Infantry, through the end of the war in 1865, when he was just twenty years old and maimed for life.
This memoir was written in 1905 by 61-year-old Samuel W. Hankins detailing his years as a Confederate rifleman from the spring of 1861, when at a he v...