Chapter XXVI

Lee snuffs a battle in the breeze.--Hooker's army supposed
to be 100,000 men.--Lee's perhaps 55,000 efficient.--I am
planting potatoes.--Part of Longstreet's army gone up.--
Enemy makes a raid.--Great victory at Chancellorville.--
Hot weather.--Our poor wounded coming in streams, in
ambulances and on foot.--Hooker has lost the game.--
Message from the enemy.--They ask of Lee permission to bury
their dead.--Granted, of course.--Hooker fortifying.--Food
getting scarce again.--Gen. Lee's thanks to the army.--
Crowds of prisoners coming in.--Lieut.-Gen. Jackson dead.--
Hooker's raiders "hooked" a great many horses.--Enemy
demand 500,000 more men.--Beauregard complains that so many
of his troops are taken to Mississippi.--Enemy at Jackson,
Miss.--Strawberries.--R. Tyler.--My cherries are coming on
finely.--Ewell and Hill appointed lieutenant-generals.--
President seems to doubt Beauregard's veracity.--Hon.
D. M. Lewis cuts his wheat to-morrow, May 28th.--Johnston
says our troops are in fine spirits around Vicksburg.--
Grant thunders on.--Plan of servile insurrection. 303

CHAPTER XXVII.

Vicksburg refuses to surrender to Grant.--Spiritualism at
the White House.--Lee is pushing a little northward.--It is
said Grant has lost 40,000 men.--He is still pounding
Vicksburg.--Petty military organizations.--Mr. Randolph
busy.--Foolish passport rules.--Great battle imminent, but
speculation may defeat both sides.--Early's victory.--We
have only supplies of corn from day to day.--Chambersburg
struck.--Col. Whiting complains of blockade-running at
Wilmington.--False alarm.--Grant still before Vicksburg. 338

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Enemy threatening Richmond.--The city is safe.--Battle of
Gettysburg.--Great excitement.--Yankees in great trouble.--
Alas! Vicksburg has fallen.--President is sick.--Grant
marching against Johnston at Jackson.--Fighting at that
place.--Yankees repulsed at Charleston.--Lee and Meade
facing each other.--Pemberton surrenders his whole army.--
Fall of Port Hudson.--Second class conscripts called for.--
Lee has got back across the Potomac.--Lincoln getting
fresh troops.--Lee writes that he cannot be responsible if
the soldiers fail for want of food.--Rumors of Grant coming
East.--Pemberton in bad odor.--Hon. W. L. Yancey is dead. 366

VOLUME II.

CHAPTER XXIX.

Some desertion.--Lee falling back.--Men still foolishly look
for foreign aid.--Speculators swarming.--God helps me
to-day.--Conscripts.--Memminger shipping gold to Europe.--
Our women and children making straw bonnets.--Attack on
Charleston.--Robert Tyler as a financier.--Enemy throw large
shells into Charleston, five and a half miles.--Diabolical
scheme.--Gen. Lee has returned to the army. 3

CHAPTER XXX.

Situation at Wilmington.--Situation at Charleston.--Lincoln
thinks there is hope of our submission.--Market prices.--
Ammunition turned over to the enemy at Vicksburg.--Attack
on Sumter.--Stringent conscription order.--Disaffection in
North Carolina.--Victory announced by Gen. Bragg.--Peril of
Gen. Rosecrans.--Surrender of Cumberland Gap.--Rosecrans
fortifying Chattanooga.--Mr. Seward on flag of truce boat.--
Burnside evacuating East Tennessee.--The trans-Mississippi
army.--Meade sending troops to Rosecrans.--Pemberton in
Richmond.--A suggestion concerning perishable tithes. 30

CHAPTER XXXI.

Suffering of our wounded at Gettysburg.--Prisoners from the
battle of Chickamauga.--Charleston.--Policy in the
Southwest.--From Gen. Bragg.--Letter from President Davis.--
Religious revival.--Departure of the President for the
Southwest.--About General Bragg.--Movement of mechanics and
non-producers.--About "French" tobacco.--The markets.--
Outrage in Missouri.--Speculations of government agents.--
From Gen. Lee.--Judge Hastings's scheme.--Visit to our
prisons.--Letter from Gen. Kirby Smith.--President Davis
at Selma.--Gen. Winder's passports.--The markets.--
Campbellites and Methodists.--From Gen. Lee.--From the
Southwest. 57

CHAPTER XXXII.

Letters from various sections.--The President and Gen.
Bragg.--State of the markets.--Causes of the President's
tour.--Gen. Duff Green.--Return of the President.--Loss of
Hoke's and Haye's brigades.--Letter from Gen. Howell
Cobb.--Dispatch from Gen. Lee.--State of the markets.--
Letter from A. Moseley.--Mrs. Todd in Richmond.--
Vice-President Stephens on furloughs.--About Gen. Bragg and
the battle of Lookout Mountain. 85

CHAPTER XXXIII.

Assembling of Congress.--President's message.--The
markets.--No hope for the Confederate currency.--Averill's
raid.--Letter from Gov. Vance.--Christmas.--Persons having
furnished substitutes still liable to military duty. 110

CHAPTER XXXIV.

Hospitalities of the city to Gen. Morgan.--Call for a
Dictator.--Letter from Gen. Lee.--Letters from Gov.
Vance.--Accusation against Gen. Winder.--Treatment of
Confederate prisoners (from the _Chicago Times_).--
Change of Federal policy.--Efforts to remove Col.
Northrop.--Breach between the President and Congress.--
Destitution of our prisoners.--Appeal of Gen. Lee to the
army.--New Conscription Act.--Letter from Gen. Cobb. 122

CHAPTER XXXV.

Gen. Lovell applies for a command.--Auspicious opening of
1864.--Mr. Wright's resolutions.--Rumored approach of Gen.
Butler.--Letter from Gov. Brown.--Letter from Gen. Lee.--
Dispatches from Gen. Beauregard.--President Davis's
negroes.--Controversy between Gen. Winder and Mr. Ould.--
Robbery of Mr. Lewis Hayman.--Promotion of Gen. Bragg,
and the _Examiner_ thereon.--Scarcity of provisions
in the army.--Congress and the President. 140

CHAPTER XXXVI.

Attempt to capture Richmond.--Governor Vance and Judge
Pearson.--Preparations to blow up the "Libby" prisoners.--
Letter from General Lee.--Proposal to execute Dahlgren's
raiders.--General Butler on the Eastern Shore.--Colonel
Dahlgren's body.--Destitution of the army.--Strength of
the Southwestern army.--Destitution of my family.--Protest
from South Carolina.--Difficulty with P. Milmo & Co.--Hon.
J. W. Wall. 162

CHAPTER XXXVII.

Return of Mr. Ould and Capt. Hatch from Fortress Monroe.--
Quarrel between Mr. Memminger and Mr. Seddon.--Famine.--A
victory in Louisiana.--Vice-President Stephens's speech.--
Victory of Gen. Forrest.--Capture of Plymouth, N. C.--Gen.
Lee's bill of fare. 179

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

Dispatch from Gen. J. E. Johnston.--Dispatch from Gen.
Lee.--Mr. Saulsbury's resolution in the U. S. Senate.--
Progress of the enemy.--Rumored preparations for the
flight of the President.--Wrangling of high officials.--
Position of the armies. 196

CHAPTER XXXIX.

Beauregard's plan.--The battle.--Defeat near Staunton.--
Fight at Petersburg.--Decision about Marylanders.--
Beauregard in disgrace.--Dispatch from Gen. J. E. Johnston. 223

CHAPTER XL.

Gen. Lee's dispatch announcing Gen. Hampton's victory.--Cost
of a cup of coffee.--From Gens. Johnston and S. D. Lee.--
Gen. Early in Maryland.--Rumored capture of Baltimore.--
Letter from Gen. Lee.--Dispatch from Gen. Hood.--Status of
the local troops. 241

CHAPTER XLI.

From the Northern papers.--Letter from J. Thompson,
Canada.--From Mr. McRae, our foreign agent.--Dispatch from
Major-Gen. Maury.--"General Order No. 65."--Battle of
Reams's Station. 258

CHAPTER XLII.

The Federal Presidency.--The Chicago Convention.--Fall of
Atlanta.--Bureau of Conscription.--From Gen. Hood.--
Vice-President Stephens on the situation.--Letter from
Mrs. Mendenhall.--Dispatch from Gen. Lee.--Defeat of Gen.
Early.--From Gov. Vance.--From Gov. Brown, of Georgia.--
Gen. Lee's indorsement of Col. Moseby.--Hon. Mr. Foote.--
Attack on Fort Gilmer.--Indiscriminate arrest of civilians. 275

CHAPTER XLIII.

Attempt to retake Fort Harrison.--A false alarm.--Dispatches
from Gen. Lee.--Impressments.--Gen. Butler's generosity.--
Matters in and about the city.--Beverly Tucker's contract
with a New York firm for supplies. 297

CHAPTER XLIV.

Proclamation for a day of public worship.--Gov. Allen, of
Louisiana.--Letter from Gen. Beauregard.--Departure for
Europe.--Congress assembles.--Quarrel between Gens. Kemper
and Preston.--Gen. Forrest doing wonders.--Tennessee.--Gen.
Johnston on his Georgia campaign.--John Mitchel and Senator
Foote.--Progress of Sherman.--From Gov. Brown, of
Georgia.--Capture of Gen. Pryor. 320

CHAPTER XLV.

Desertions.--Bragg and Kilpatrick.--Rents.--Gen. Winder's
management of prisoners.--Rumored disasters in
Tennessee.--Prices.--Progress of Sherman.--Around
Richmond.--Capture of Fort McAlister.--Rumored death of the
President.--Yankee line of spies.--From Wilmington and
Charleston.--Evacuation of Savannah. 343

CHAPTER XLVI.

Waning confidence in the President.--Blockade-running.--From
the South.--Beauregard on Sherman.--The expeditions against
Wilmington.--Return of Mr. Pollard.--The Blairs in
Richmond.--Arrest of Hon. H. S. Foote.--Fall of Fort
Fisher.--Views of Gen. Cobb.--Dismal.--Casualties of the
war.--Peace commissioners for Washington. 371

CHAPTER XLVII.

Gen. Lee appointed General-in-Chief.--Progress of
Sherman.--The markets.--Letter from Gen. Butler.--Return of
the peace commissioners.--The situation.--From Gen. Lee.--
Use of negroes as soldiers.--Patriotism of the women.--
Pardon of deserters.--The passport system.--Oh for peace!--
Gen. Lee on negro soldiers.--Conventions in Georgia and
Mississippi. 405

CHAPTER XLVIII.

From the North.--Rumored defeat of Gen. Early.--Panic among
officials.--Moving the archives.--Lincoln's inaugural.--
Victory in North Carolina.--Rumored treaty with France.--
Sheridan's movements.--Letter from Lord John Russell.--
Sherman's progress.--Desperate condition of the
government.--Disagreement between the President and
Congress.--Development of Grant's combination.--Assault at
Hare's Hill.--Departure of Mrs. President Davis. 436

CHAPTER XLIX.

Rumors of battles.--Excitement in the churches.--The South
Side Road captured by the enemy.--Evacuation of
Richmond.--Surrender of Gen. Lee.--Occupation of Richmond by
Federal forces.--Address to the people of Virginia by J. A.
Campbell and others.--Assassination of President Lincoln. 464

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