son and Slidell.--Great preparations of
the enemy.--Gen. Jackson betrayed.--Mr. Memminger's
blunders.--Exaggerated reports of our troops in Kentucky
and Tennessee. 103

CHAPTER XI.

Fall of Fort Henry.--Of Fort Donelson.--Lugubrious
Inauguration of the President in the Permanent
Government.--Loss of Roanoke Island. 108

CHAPTER XII.

Nashville evacuated.--Martial law.--Passports.--Com.
Buchanan's naval engagement.--Gen. Winder's blunders.--Mr.
Benjamin Secretary of State.--Lee commander-in-chief.--Mr.
G. W. Randolph Secretary of War. 112

CHAPTER XIII.

Gen. Beauregard succeeds Gen. Sydney Johnston.--Dibble, the
traitor.--Enemy at Fredericksburg.--They say we will be
subdued by the 15th of June.--Lee rapidly concentrating at
Richmond.--Webster, the spy, hung. 118

CHAPTER XIV.

Disloyalists entrapped.--Norfolk abandoned.--Merrimac blown
up.--Army falling back.--Mrs. Davis leaves Richmond.--
Preparing to burn the tobacco.--Secretary of War trembles
for Richmond.--Richmond to be defended.--The tobacco.--
Winking and blinking.--Johnston's great battle.--Wounded
himself.--The wounded.--The hospitals. 122

CHAPTER XV.

Huger fails again.--A wounded boy.--The killed and
wounded.--Lee assumes command.--Lee prepares to attack
McClellan.--Beauregard watches the gold.--Our generals
scattered.--Hasty letter from Gen. Lee.--Opening of grand
battle.--First day, 26th June.--Second, etc.--Lee's
consummate skill.--Every day for a week it rages.--Streets
crowded with Blue Jackets.--McClellan retires. 131

CHAPTER XVI.

Terrific fighting.--Anxiety to visit the battle-field.--
Lee prepares for other battles.--Hope for the Union
extinct.--Gen. Lee brings forward conscripts.--Gen. Cobb
appointed to arrange exchange of prisoners.--Mr. Ould as
agent.--Pope, the braggart, comes upon the stage.--Meets a
braggart's fate.--The war transferred to Northern Virginia. 140

CHAPTER XVII.

Vicksburg shelled.--Lee looks toward Washington.--Much
manoeuvring in Orange County.--A brigade of the enemy
annihilated.--McClellan flies to Washington.--Cretans.--Lee
has a mighty army.--Missouri risings.--Pope's coat and