and Provisional Navy-bills.
Popular Estimate of Mr. Mallory. Iron-clads vs. Cruisers. The Parole
of "Pirate Semmes". What Iron-clads might have done. Treasury and
Navy. The "Merrimac". Virginia Fight in Hampton Roads. The White-flag
Violation. Those wonderful Wooden Shells. Other flashing Achievements.
Comparison of the two Navies. Doubtful Torpedo Results. Summing up the
Hue-and-Cry. Nashville and New Orleans. The Tatnall-"Virginia"
Court-martial. Who did More than They?

CHAPTER XXXI.--The Chinese Wall Blockade, Abroad and at Home 272-287

Foundation Errors. Lost Opportunity. The Treaty of Paris View. First
Southern Commissioners. Doubts. The Mason-Slidell Incident. Mr.
Benjamin's Foreign Policy. DeLeon's Captured Despatches. Murmurs
Loud and Deep. England's Attitude. Other Great Powers. Mr. Davis'
View. "If". Interest of the Powers. The Optimist View. Production
and Speculation. Blockade Companies. Sumptuary Laws. Growth of Evil
Power. Charleston and Savannah. Running the Fleet at Wilmington.
Demoralization and Disgust. The Mississippi Closed. Vicksburg.
"Running the Bloc." on the Border. The Spy System. Female Agents.

CHAPTER XXXII.--Press, Literature and Art 288-301

Newspapers North and South. Ability Differently Used. Reasons Therefor.
Criticism of Affairs; its Effect. Magazines and their Clientele. Prose
Writers ante bellum. Rebel War Rhymes. Origin and Characteristics. The
Northern "National Hymn". Famous Poets and Their Work. Dirge Poetry and
Prison Songs. Father Ryan and the Catholic Church. "Furled Forever!"
Musical Taste. How Songs were Utilized. Military Bands. Painters and
Paintings. No Southern Art. A Few Noted Pictures.

CHAPTER XXXIII.--Wit and Humor of the War 302-315

Strange Laughter. The Confederate "Mother Goose". Travesty and Satire.
The "Charles Lamb" of Richmond. Camp Wit. Novel Marriage. A
"Skirmisher". Prison Humor. Even in Vicksburg! Sad Bill-of-Fare.
Northern Misconception. Richmond Society Wit. The "Mosaic Club" and
its Components. Innes Randolph's Forfeit. The Colonel's Breakfast
Horror. Post-surrender Humor. Even the Emancipated.

CHAPTER XXXIV.--The Beginning of the End 316-326

Gradual Weakening of the South. The Wearing-out Process. Sequelae of
Vicksburg and Gettysburg. Congress _vs._ President. Mr. Foote and
his Following. Drain of Men and Material. Home Guards. The "Speculator
Squad". Dire Straits in Camp