“I Remain, as Ever, Your Kinsman” is available from Amazon. Below are the chapter headings.
My Book Outline
THE ELDORADO OF THE PACIFIC
From Evansville, Indiana to the Crescent City by Steamboat
- The Island of Cuba: Splendid Gardens and Narrow Streets
- An Abominable Place – Across the Isthmus with Pack Horses
- Ounce a Day Wages – Col. Fremont – Eight Dimes to a Dollar
- Tar and Feathers for Shipping Agents
- The Fever for Eldorado Cooled Down
- $500 a Day for Some; Dull Prospects for Others
- News from Home: The Death of their Father
- The Country is Flooded with Gold Seeker – Daring Exploits
- Uncle Presley’s Death – In the Dry Diggings
- Slaves Freed to find Gold for Their New Life in Liberia
- Wesley’s Death – California Becomes a State
- Hard Rock Mining – The Future of California
- Tennessee Kin Lost at Sea While Returning Home
- What to Do with a Lump of Gold
- The Grasshoppers ate all the Grass: Miners become Ranchers
- “Hangtown” gets a new name: Placerville
- The New Californians keep in touch with the folks back Home
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COLONEL GRANT’S REGIMENT
- The Crawford County Boys Encounter a Great Character
- Marching on Hardtack and Fatback
- Our Boys Can’t Hit the Target – The Rebs Capture Neighbors
- Rebellion in our own Ranks – and the Courts Martial
- Regimental Politics – Democracy Frustrated
- Payday! – And the Regiment is Blooded
- Searching for the Rebels – Deserters – Goodies from Home
- Kin in the Rebel Army – Deserters Captured – Winter Quarters
- Snow, but snug in their Log Cabins – Floors or Siding?
- The 75 Cent Cook – The “Ducks” get Most of his Pay
- Butter by Express – The $6 Boots – The Kept Woman
- The Charley Howe Campaign – $1.25 Pants and 35 Cent Socks
- Skirmishes with the Rebels – Hot Secesh Biscuits
- Rush Finds his Brother – Mississippi Sugared Blackberries
- The 400 Mile March – Echoes of Emancipation
- Stragglers Captured – Gen. Roscrans Arrives
- Charley Howe Finally Makes Lieutenant – Sesech Relatives
- Doomsday Draws Near – He gets his Winter Coat
- Christmas Eve – and the Last Letter
- Epilogue