"These records are taken from a diary kept during my service in the Confederate Army, under Generals Morgan and Bedford Forrest, and are, therefore, simply my personal experiences and recollections. I have confined my narrative largely to my brother’s career, to his final fate as a Federal prisoner after the war, and to myself. I have described my thirteen thrilling escapes from the Yankees — seven times from prison walls, and six times on my way to prison; also, in a brief manner, my service in Mexico with General Joe Shelby, my short service there under the French General Dupin, the center guerrilla commander, and under Prince Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, adding a short romance and an account of two duels while there..."
T.F.Berr
