1 item (2, 4, 2, 143 pp.) TS copy.

Ray's 143-page unpublished memoir, preceded by 8 pages of prefatory material ("Recognition," 2 pp., "Introduction," 4 pp., "Foreward," 2 pp.) compiled by descendant/donor David W. Ogden. Memoir pertains to: Ray's Confederate States Army servicel to his migration to Sevier County, Arkansas in 1872; to his life in and to social and economic conditions there from 1872 to 1907; to his active role in affairs of the United Confederate Veterans; and to his subsequent life, 1907-1917, in Idabel, Oklahoma.

Typewritten reminiscence, prepared from a n original manuscript by David W. Ogden, descendent of Corporal William Stephen Ray, Company I, 154th Tennessee Infantry. Ray enlisted in the Confederate army at McNairy County, Tennessee, while sixteen years old. He fought at Belmont, Missouri, Shiloh, Tennessee, Corinth, Mississippi, and Atlanta, Georgia. Midway through the war, Ray was temporarily assigned to the Fifteenth Tennessee Cavalry, but he rejoined the infantry before the close of hostilities. Ray's reminiscence holds little new information on military movements, but a few interesting personal incidents are included. Most of the reminiscence describes Ray's post-war residence in Arkansas and Oklahoma, as well as his efforts on behalf of the United Confederate Veterans