DESTRUCTION AND RECONSTRUCTION: PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF THE LATE WAR. BY RICHARD TAYLOR, LIEUTENANT-GENERAL IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 549 AND 551 BROADWAY. 1879. 10-10-45 Newman Gen PREFAСЕ. THESE reminiscences of Secession, War, and Reconstruction it has seemed to me a duty to record. An actor therein, accident of fortune afforded me exceptional advantages for an interior view. The opinions expressed are sincerely entertained, but of their correctness such readers as I may find must judge. I have in most cases been a witness to the facts alleged, or have obtained them from the best sources. Where statements are made upon less authority, I have carefully endeavored to indicate it by the language employed.. December, 1877. 276108 R. TAYLOR. Blindness of the Confederate Government-General Bragg occupies Pensa- cola-Battle of Manassas-Its Effects on the North and the South- General W. H. T. Walker-The Louisiana Brigade—The “ "Tigers |