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Marcus B. (Marcus Breckenridge) Toney
1840–1929
A Tennessee memoirist best remembered for The Privations of a Private, he left a vivid first-person account of Confederate service and postwar life. His writing offers a direct, personal window into the Civil War era and the world he inhabited afterward.
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The privations of a private : The campaign under Gen. R. E. Lee; the campaign under Gen. Stonewall Jackson; Bragg's invasion of Kentucky; the Chickamauga campaign; the Wilderness campaign; prison life in the North; the privations of a citizen; the Kuklux Klan; a united citizenship; retrospection
by Marcus B. (Marcus Breckenridge) Toney
About the author
Born in Virginia in 1840 and raised in Tennessee, he served in the Confederate army during the Civil War and was later captured and imprisoned before returning home. In civilian life, he worked for the Tennessee Central Railroad and became active in Masonic organizations.
He is chiefly remembered as the author of The Privations of a Private, published in 1907. The book is a memoir that follows his wartime experiences and later reflections, and it remains the work most closely associated with his name.
Some sources also note his involvement in the Ku Klux Klan after the war. Because of that, his legacy is tied not only to his memoir but also to the deeply troubling politics and causes he supported.