papers captured.--Cut up at Manassas.--Clothing captured of
the enemy. 147

CHAPTER XVIII.

Lee announces a victory.--Crosses the Potomac.--Battle of
Sharpsburg.--McClellan pauses at the Potomac.--Lee moves
mysteriously.--The campaign a doubtful one in its material
results.--Horrible scene near Washington.--Conscription
enlarged.--Heavy loss at Sharpsburg.--10,000 in the
hospitals here. 151

CHAPTER XIX.

McClellan has crossed the Potomac.--Another battle
anticipated.--I am assured here that Lee had but 40,000 men
engaged at Sharpsburg.--He has more now, as he is defending
Virginia.--Radicals of the North want McClellan removed.--
Our President has never taken the field.--Lee makes
demonstrations against McClellan.--A Jew store robbed last
night.--We have 40,000 prisoners excess over the enemy.--
My family arrived from Raleigh.--My wife's substitute for
coffee.--Foul passports.--My friend Brooks dines and wines
with members of Congress.--The Herald and Tribune tempt us
to return to the Union.--Lee writes, no immediate advance
of McClellan.--Still a rumor of Bragg's victory in
Kentucky.--Enemy getting large reinforcements.--Diabolical
order of Governor Baylor.--Secretary's estimate of
conscripts and all others, 500,000.--Bragg retreating from
Kentucky.--Bickering between Bragg and Beauregard.--Lee
wants Confederate notes made a legal tender.--There will be
no second Washington. 160

CHAPTER XX.

Gen. Lee in Richmond: beard white.--First proposition to
trade cotton to the enemy.--Secretary in favor of it.--All
the letters come through my hands again.--Lee falling
back.--5000 negroes at work on the fortifications.--Active
operations looked for.--Beauregard advises non-combatants to
leave the city.--Semmes's operations.--Making a nation.--
Salt works lost in Virginia.---Barefooted soldiers.--
Intrigues of Butler in New Orleans.--Northern army advancing
everywhere.--Breach between the President and Secretary of
War.--President's servant arrested for robbing the
Treasury.--Gen. J. E. Johnston in town.--Secretary has
resigned.--Hon. J. A. Seddon appointed Secretary of War.--
The enemy marching on Fredericksburg.--Lee writes that