A Florence heroine and a Bible verse -- Civil War wedding -- Falconnet and his network of spies -- Two local legendary heroes -- The Battle at the Peters place and its tragic aftermath -- The Preacher's son -- The Blockade runner -- Two early Civil War hospitals -- A Yankee patient at Pope's Tavern -- A war time preacher -- The good yankee -- Florence's Civil War military fort -- The summer of 1862 -- Riding with Biffle -- Biffle connections in Biffle country -- Terms of surrender amid bottles of liquor -- A confederate hero in a Tuscumbia churchyard -- A Visit with Abraham Lincoln -- Ransom money -- The Celebrations for General Forrest at Florence -- The soldiers' tomb at Parsonage Chapel -- The Legend of Captain Bert Hayes -- Guerrilla warfare -- That man Thrasher -- The Celtic Kirk -- A War story with a beautiful ending -- The Colonel, judge, and preacher -- General Sterling Alexander Martin Wood -- The General's camp man -- The Sound of a gunshot and the mill that burned -- The day they set fire to the mills -- The Assassination of Colonel Cornyn -- The Anecdote of the officer's party at Sweetwater -- The Night Sherman's men raided Sweetwater -- The Story of Sam at Sweetwater -- Ambush on Tick Island -- The Wildwood Plantation at Gravely [sic.] Springs -- Florence City Cemetery -- Pestilence and the pesthouse -- Waterloo's steamboat captain -- The Colonel who was called "The Worst" -- Samuel Sinclair's grave -- Florence Wesleyan University's famous Texan alumnus -- The Dark side of Court Street (a Civil War story) -- The story of W.C. Handy's other grandfather -- Some activities of the federal navy at Florence, Alabama -- The Legendary Colonel Richard Orric Pickett -- Hood's silent redoubt at old south Florence, TVA Reservation -- The Early history of the Blackberry Trail Golf Course -- The Yankee connection -- Sherman crosses river at Waterloo -- Sherman and the bushwacker -- The General and the altar -- The Two skirmishes at Four Mile Branch -- The Early October 1864 skirmishes near Florence -- The Lore of Happy Hollow -- Alabama's federal cavalry -- An Old soldier and a good neighbor -- Hood's two river crossings at the Muscle Shoals -- Confederate headquarters at Lamb's Ferry -- Names for the unknown -- An Intriguing Civil War story -- General Roddey's boy postman -- A Civil War folk hero -- Wheeler's crossing of the Tennessee -- The Man buried under Tennessee Street -- A Confederate general who once taught school -- In Florence -- The Florence-educated yankee general -- General Edward A. O'Neal -- General James Deshler of Tuscumbia -- The Soldier who didn't come home -- The College president who became a local hero -- The Civil War diary of the author of "Little Rebel" -- Helen Keller's father -- John Gregg the confederate hero from La Grange College -- Baskets of kindness -- A Sunday afternoon in 1864 -- The Saga of Nelson McCuan, a lover of fine horses -- The Union calvary at Gravelly Springs and Waterloo -- Captain Alexander Coffee and his home at Ardoyne -- Local Civil War veterans organizations -- Why! we'll just have to whup 'em again -- Pvt. William A. Lundy -- Telephone calls old pictures -- Local Civil War veterans entertained, 1921.