A Confederate General from Big Sur

Contents

PART ONE: A Confederate General from Big Sur

A Confederate General from Big Sur

The Tide Teeth of Lee Mellon

The First Time I Met Lee Mellon

Augustus Mellon, CSA

A Daring Cavalry Attack on PG&E

PART TWO: Campaigning with Lee Mellon at Big Sur

The Letters of Arrival and Reply

Breaking Bread at Big Sur

Preparing for Ecclesiastes

The Rivets in Ecclesiastes

Begging for Their Lives

In the Midst of Life

The Extremity of $6.72

To Gettysburg! To Gettysburg!

A Farewell to Frogs

The Rites of Tobacco

Wilderness Again

The Pork Chop Alligator

The Wilderness Alligator Haiku

He Usually Stays Over by the Garden

That Chopping Sound

A Short History of America After the War Between the States

Lee Mellon’s San Jose Sartorious

The Camp-fires of Big Sur

The Discovery of Laurel

Lee Mellon, Roll Away! You Rolling River

Alligators Minus Pork Chops

Four Couples: An American Sequence

Awaken to the Drums!

Bye Now, Roy Earle, Take Care of Yourself

Crowned with Laurel and Our Banners Before Us We Descend!

To a Pomegranate Ending, Then 186,000 Endings Per Second