Shave. Neck and Neck. How a Race is Won. A Unique Toast.

CHAPTER VI.--Boat Life Afloat and Aground 49-53

Time-killers on the River. Negro Boat-hands. Cotton Loading from
Slides. Overboard! "Fighting the Tiger". Hard Aground! Delay and
Depression. Admiral Raphael Semmes. News of the Baltimore Riot.
Speculation as to its Results.

CHAPTER VII.--Mobile, the Gulf City 54-58

Echo from Maryland. Alabama's Preparation. Mobile's Crack Corps. John
Forsyth on the Peace Commissioners. Mobile Society. Pleasure-lovers and
Their Pleasures. A Victim of the Tiger. Two Moral Axioms.

CHAPTER VIII--New Orleans, the Crescent City 59-68

Location and Commercial Importance. Old Methods of Business. Relations
of Planter and Factor. A typical Brokerage House. Secure Reliance on
European Recognition and the Kingship of Cotton. Yellow Jack and his
Treatment. French Town and America. Hotels of the day. Home Society and
"The Heathen". Social Customs. Creole Women's Taste. Cuffee and Cant.
Early Regiments and Crack Companies. Judges of Wine. A Champion Diner.

CHAPTER IX.--A Change of Base 69-74

The Pensacola Army. Review by President Davis. Orders for Virginia.
Breaking Camp on the Gulf. The Start of the Zouaves. They Capture a
Train and a City. Pursuit and Recapture. The Riot and its Lesson. Early
Ideas of Discipline.

CHAPTER X.--En Route for the Border 75-83

Decision to Move the Capital. Lax Precautions. The New York "Tribune"
Dispatch. Montgomery Murmurs. Troops _en route_, and their Feelings.
The Government on Wheels. Kingsville Misnomer. Profanity and Diplomacy.
Grimes' Brother-in-law. With the C.S. Mail-bags.

CHAPTER XI.--On to Richmond 84-92

A Typical Southron. Sentiment in the Ranks. Glimpse of the new
Capital. The Inflowing Caravans. Hotels and Boarding-houses. City
and Surroundings. A Southern Poet. A Warning in Statuary. Hollywood
Cemetery. The Tredegar Works. Their Importance in the War. 'T'other
Consarn!

CHAPTER XII.--Settling to the Real Work 93-101

Regulars of the States. Virginia Sentiment. Unanimity of Purpose. Lee
and Johnston. Esprit de Corps. Centering on Virginia. Varied Types of
Different States. The Marylanders at the South. Mixed Equipments and
"Properties". Doubtful Points. Norfolk to Manassas. W