Information on Pvt. L. S. Sivills, Pvt. Christopher R. Bray, Pvt. George T. Thropp, and Pvt. Thomas P. Mercer, of Company B, 68th Regiment, being captured 1863.
The author talks about the early history of Shiloh and leading citizens of the community, especially Dempsey Burgess and John Stevens. He also tells Civil War memories in the area.
The author gives a history of Joseph Hughes being captured at Hatteras and taken as a Union prisoner. He was later exchanged and returned to his unit, 1st Company H, 32nd Regiment. He was discharged on Apr. 2, 1862.
A history of Alonzo Etheridge Bell (1823-1888), his poetry, his diary of the Civil War, his teaching school after the War, and his election as Camden County Clerk of Court.