This book has been over 150 years in the making; from actual experiences of a nine year old girl and a confederate soldier during the Civil War in 1862 - 1865 as told to and documented by Jennie Kelly Muse until the publication of this book, 2014, from which documents were literally located in boxes from the attic. Journalist and author Clark Cox, late of Rockingham, NC, wrote that the document of the Yankees invasion of Rockingham is the only known account of that invasion by a contemporary; he also wrote that the memoir of John A. Muse is one of the most vivid and colorful accounts of a confederate soldier that exists.