Lee made a full general.--Major-Gen. Polk.--A battle
expected at Manassas. 47

CHAPTER IV.

My family in North Carolina.--Volunteers daily rejected.--
Gen. Winder appears upon the stage.--Toombs commissioned.--
Hunter Secretary of State.--Duel prevented.--Col. B.
Secretary for a few hours.--Gen. Garnett killed.--Battle of
Manassas.--Great excitement.--Col. Bartow. 57

CHAPTER V.

My son Custis appointed clerk in the War Department.--N. Y.
Herald contains a pretty correct army list of the C. S.--
Appearance of the "Plug Uglies."--President's rupture with
Beauregard.--President sick.--Alien enemies ordered away.--
Brief interview with the President.--"Immediate."--Large
numbers of cavalry offering.--Great preparations in the
North. 69

CHAPTER VI.

Four hundred thousand troops to be raised.--Want of arms.--
Yankees offer to sell them to us.--Walker resigns.--
Benjamin succeeds.--Col. J. A. Washington killed.--Assigned,
temporarily, to the head of the passport office. 77

CHAPTER VII.

An order for the publication of the names of alien
enemies.--Some excitement.--Efforts to secure property.--
G. A. Myers, lawyer, actively engaged.--Gen. Price gains a
victory in Missouri.--Billy Wilson's cut-throats cut to
pieces at Fort Pickens.--A female spy arrives from
Washington.--Great success at Leesburg or Ball's Bluff. 82

CHAPTER VIII.

Quarrel between Gen. Beauregard and Mr. Benjamin.--Great
naval preparations in the North.--The loss of Port Royal,
S. C., takes some prestige.--The affair at Belmont does not
compensate for it.--The enemy kills an old hare.--Missouri
secedes.--Mason and Slidell captured.--French Consul and the
actresses.--The lieutenant in disguise.--Eastern Shore of
Virginia invaded.--Messrs. Breckinridge and Marshall in
Richmond. 89

CHAPTER IX.

Gen. Lee ordered South.--Gen. Stuart ambuscaded at
Drainsville.--W. H. B. Custis returns to the Eastern
Shore.--Winder's detectives.--Kentucky secedes.--Judge
Perkins's resolution.--Dibble goes North.--Waiting for
Great Britain to do something.--Mr. Ely, the Yankee M. C. 96

CHAPTER X.

Seward gives up Ma