This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...to it, and never as anything supernatural. She told me of it some years after the war. In July, 1863, General Morgan made his famous raid into Ohio. Jim, Henry Massie, and myself were all members of his command. My father and mother were living with Aunt Key on Jefferson Street (south side), between First and Second, in Louisville. About the fifth or sixth of July, my mother and Aunt Key were sitting in the dining-room. My father came in, and addressing his sister said, "Nellie, I have thoroughly investigated that report and find there is nothing in it. I have been to the Louisville and Nashville depot and have done all I can to trace the report to its origin, and I am satisfied it has no foundation." My mother said, "What report?" My father answered, "A report came that Tom had been killed. I would not mention it to you till I had investigated it. I am satisfied now that it is without foundation." My mother said, "It is not Tom--it is Jim; and I believe it is true." She then explained to them, as she afterward did to me, that on the fourth of July she was standing at her bureau, combing her hair, preparing for dinner. She saw no vision, but heard a voice behind her say distinctly, "Jim has been killed." She looked around, startled in the highest degree: but there was no one there. She kept it to herself as a mere imagination, due to her constant anxiety, until she mentioned it as above. The fact is, Jim had been killed on the fourth of July, at just about the time she thought she heard the voice. This had no effect upon her religious views, and did not awaken a belief in spiritual manifestations. Next to Sister Martha's death, I think Jim's death caused her the deepest pain and distress...