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CHAPTER V.

Note:

Contrast between our Military Fortunes in the East and in the West.-Some

Reasons for our Success in Virginia.-Her Hearty Co-operation with the Confederate

Authorities. Her Contributions to the War.--General Bragg's Situation in Tennes-

see.-Confederate criticisms on General Rosecrans.-Opinion of the "Chattanooga

Rebel."-An Extensive Movement Contemplated by Rosecrans.-Bragg's Retreat to

Chattanooga.-The Yankees on a Double Line of Operations.-Buckner's Evacuation

of Knoxville. THE SURRENDER OF CUMBERLAND GAP.-President Davis's Comment

on the Surrender.-THE BATTLES OF CHICKAMAUGA.-Braggs' Evacuation of Chatta-

nooga.-Topography of the Battle-field.-Thomas's Column of Yankees in McLemore's

Cove.-Disobedience of Orders by Lieutenant-general Hill of the Confederates.-

Bragg's Orders to Lieutenant-general Polk.-Two Opportunities Lost.

Bragg's Secret and Official Report of the Miscarriage of His Plans.-The First Day's

Engagement on the Chickamauga.-Second Day.-General Polk's Fight on our

Right.-Longstreet's Successful Attack on the Left.-The Grand Charge.-Rout of

the Enemy.-Longstreet's Message to Bragg.-Forrest Up a Tree.-Bragg Declines to

Pursue. His Hesitation and Error.-His Movement upon Chattanooga.-Boast of

Rosecrans.-An Empty Victory for the Confederates.-Bragg's Awkward Pause.-

Discussions of the Campaign.-His Supposed Investment of Chattanooga.-Two

Blunders of the Confederate Commander.-Chickamauga a Second Edition of Bull

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Run. Note: Observations of a General Officer of the Confederate States Army on

the Campaign in the West..

CHAPTER VI.

Political Movements in the Fall of 1863.-The "Peace Party" in the North.-The

Yankee Fall Elections.-The War Democrats in the North.-The South's Worst

Enemies.-Yankee Self-Glorification.-Farragut's Dinner-Party.-The Russian Ban-

quet.-Russia and Yankeedom.-The Poles and the Confederates.-THE POLITICAL

TROUBLES IN KENTUCKY.-Bramlette and Wickcliffe.-The Democratic Platform in

Kentucky.-Political Ambidexterity.-Burnside's Despotic Orders.-The Kentucky

"Board of Trade."-An Election by Bayonets.-The Fate of Kentucky Sealed.—OUR

EUROPEAN RELATIONS.-Dismissal of the Foreign Consuls in the Confederacy.—

Seizure of the Confederate "Rams" in England.-The Confederate Privateers.-

Their Achievements.-British Interests in Privateering.-The Profits of So-called

Neutrality."-NAVAL AFFAIRS OF THE CONFEDERACY.-Embarrassments of Onr

Naval Enterprise.-The Naval Structures of the Confederates.-LEE'S FLANK MOVE-

MENT IN VIRGINIA.-Affair of Bristoe Station.-Failure of Lee's Plans.-Meade's

Escape to Centreville.-Imboden's Operations in the Valley.--Capture of Charlestown.

-OPERATIONS AT RAPPAHANNOCK BRIDGE.-Kelley's Ford.-Surprise and Capture of

Hayes' and Hoke's Brigades.-Gallantry of Colonel Godwin.-Lee's Army on the

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Rapidan.-THE AFFAIR OF GERMANIA FORD.--Meade Foiled.-The "On-to-Rich-

mond" Delayed.............

CHAPTER VII.

The Chattanooga Lines.-Grant's Command.-The Military Division of the Missis-

sippi.-Scarcity of Supplies in Chattanooga.-Wheeler's Raid.--Grant's Plans.--He

Opens the Communications of Chattanooga.-THE AFFAIR OF LOOKOUT VAlley.—

Relief of Chattanooga.-THE BATTLE OF MISSIONARY RIDGE.-Bragg's Unfortunate

Detachment of Longstreet's Force.-His Evacuation of Lookout Mountain.-The

Attack on Missionary Ridge.-Hardee's Gallant Resistance.-Rout and Panic of the

Confederates.-President Davis's First Reproof of the Confederate Troops.--Bragg's

Retreat to Dalton.-Cleburne's Gallant Affair.-LONGSTREET'S EXPEDITION AGAINST

KNOXVILLE.-More of Bragg's Mismanagement.-Insufficiency of Longstreet's Force.

-Difficulty in Obtaining Supplies.-His Investment of Knoxville.-An Incident of

Personal Gallantry.-Daring of an English Volunteer.-Longstreet's Plans Discon-

certed. The Assault on Fort Sanders.-Devotion of Longstreet's Veterans.--The

Yankee "Wire-net."-The Fatal Ditch.--Longstreet's Masterly Retreat.-His Posi-

tion in Northeastern Tennessee.-He Winters his Army there.--THE AFFAIR OF

SABINE PASS, TEXAS.--THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI.-Franklin's Expedition Defeated.--

The Upper Portions of the Trans-Mississippi.-The Missouri "Guerillas."--Quan-

trell.-Romantic Incidents.-THE VIRGINIA-TENNESSEE FRONTIER.--Operations of

General Sam Jones.-An Engagement near Warm Springs.-The Affair of Rogers-

ville.-BATTLE OF DROOP MOUNTAIN.-The Enemy Baffled.-Averill's Great Decem-

ber Raid. The Pursuit.--THE NORTH CAROLINA SWAMPS.--The Negro Banditti in the

Swamps.-Wild, Butler's "Jackal."-His Murder of Daniel Bright.-Confederate

Women in Irons.-Cowardice and Ferocity of the Yankees....

CHAPTER VIII.

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The President's Declaration to the Confederate Congress of 1863-64.-"Want of

Capacity" in the Confederate Authorities.-Character of Jefferson Davis.-Official

Shiftlessness at Richmond.--Early Prognostications of the War.-The "Statesman-

ship" of the Confederates.-Ludicrous Errors of Confederate Leaders.-What "King

Cotton" might have done.-Gross Mismanagement of the Confederate Finances.-Mr.

Memminger's Maladministration.-The Moral Evils of an Expanded Currency.-The

Military Situation in December.-Secretary Seddon's Shameful Confession.-" De-

magogism" in the Confederate War Department.-Seddon's Propositions.-Military

"Substitutes."-An Act of Perfidy.-Bullying in Congress.-Spirit of the Confederate

Soldiery.-LINCOLN'S "PEACE PROCLAMATION."-Its Stupidity, Insolence, and Out-

rage. How the Confederates Replied to it.-A New Appeal Against "Recon-

struction."-THE SLAVERY QUESTION IN THE WAR.-A French Opinion.-The

Abolitionists Unmasked.-Decay of European Sympathy with Them.-Review of

Lincoln's "Emancipation" Policy.-The Arming of the Blacks.-The Negro Coloni-

zation Schemes.-Experiments of New England "Civilization" in Louisiana.--

Frightful Mortality of "Freedmen."-The Appalling Statistics of Emancipation.-

The Contraband Camps in the Mississippi Valley.-Pictures of Yankee Philanthropy.

-"Slavery" Tested by the War.-The Confederates the True Friends of the African

Laborer. The System of Negro Servitude in the Confederacy.-The "War-to-the

Knife" Party in the North.-HISTORY OF THE "RETALIATION" POLICY.-The Outrages

of Yankee Warfare.-President Davis's Sentimentalism.-The Record of his Unpar-

donable and Unparalleled Weakness.-A Peep into Yankee Prisons.-The Torture-

Houses of the North.-Captain Morgan's Experience Among "the Convict-Drivers."

-President Davis's Bluster.-His Two Faces.-Moral Effects of Submission to Yankee

Outrage. The Rival Administrations in December 1863.-Richmond and Washing-

ton.-Mr. Lincoln's Gaiety.-New Issues for the Confederacy......
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CHAPTER IX.

The Importance of the Winter Campaigns of the War.-A Series of Remarkable

Events. Encouragement of the Confederacy. - ROSSER'S RAID.-A Magnificent

Prize.-PICKETT'S EXPEDITION AGAINST NEWBERN.-The Fight on Bachelor's Creek.—

Destruction of the Yankee Gunboat "Underwriter."-The Brilliant Exploit of Com-

nander Wood.-Results of the Expedition.--THE AFFAIR OF JOHN'S ISLAND.--General

Wise's Fight.-THE BATTLE OF OCEAN POND.-History of the Yankee Expeditions into

Florida.-Lincoln's Designs upon Florida.-Their Utter Defeat.-Political Jugglery

of Seymour's Expedition.-Price of "Three Electoral Votes."--SHERMAN'S EXPEDI-

TION IN THE SOUTHWEST.-What it Contemplated.--Grant's Extensive Designs.--The

Strategic Triangle.-Grant's Proposed Removal of the Mississippi River.-Polk's Re-

treat into Alabama.-Forrest's Heroic Enterprise.-His Defeat of Smith's and Grier-

son's Columns.-Sherman's Retreat to Vicksburg.-His Disgraceful Failure.-The

Yankee Campaign in the West Disconcerted.--The Lines in North Georgia.-Repulse

of the Yankees.....
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CHAPTER X.

Auspicious Signs of the Spring of 1864.-Military Successes of the Confederates.—

Improvements in the Internal Polity of the Confederacy-Two Important Measures

of Legislation.-Revolution of our Finances.--Enlargement of the Conscription.—

Theory of the New Military Law.--A Blot on the Political Record of the Confeder-

acy.-Qualified Suspension of the Habeas Corpus.-An Infamous Edict, but a "Dead-

letter."-An Official Libel upon the Confederacy.-The Real Condition of Civil

Liberty in the South.-The Conscription not properly a Measure of Force.-Im-

pressments but a System of Patriotic Contribution.--Development of the Yankee

Government into Despotism.-An Explanation of this.-The Essence of Despotism

in One Yankee Statute.-MILITARY RESOURCES OF THE CONFEDERACY.-Its Military

System, the Best and Most Elastic in the World.-The War Conducted on A Volun-

tary Basis. Supplies.--Scarcity of Meat.-The Grain Product.-Two Centres of Sup-

plies.-A Dream of Yankee Hate.--Great Natural Resources of the North.-Summary

of the Yankee Military Drafts.-Tonnage of the Yankee Navy.-The Yankee War

Debt.--Economic Effects of the War.--Its Effects on European Industry.--Yankee

Conquest of the South an Impossibility.--A Remarkable Incident of the War.--

DAHLGREN'S RAID AROUND RICHMOND.--Kilpatrick's and Custar's Parts of the Expe-

dition.-Dahlgren and his Negro Guide.--His "Braves" Whipped by the Richmond

Clerks and Artisans.-Death of the Marauder.-Revelation of his Infamous Designs.

--Copy and History of "the Dahlgren Papers."-A Characteristic Yankee Apothe-

osis.-Ridiculous and Infamous Behavior of the Confederate Authorities.--A Bru-

tal and Savage Threat.-President Davis in Melodrama......
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CHAPTER XI.

The Current of Confederate Victories.-THE RED RIVER EXPEDITION.-Banks' Am-

bitious Designs.-Condition of the Confederates West of the Mississippi.-Banks'

Extensive Preparations.-A Gala Day at Vicksburg.-Yankee Capture of Fort De

Russy.--Occupation of Alexandria.-Porter's Warfare and Pillage.-Banks' Con-

tinued Advance.-Shreveport, the Grand Objective Point.-Kirby Smith's Designs.--

General Green's Cavalry Fight.-BATTLE OF MANSFIELD.-Success of the Confeder-

ates.-BATTLE OF PLEASANT HILL.-The Heroic and Devoted Charge of the Confeder-

ates.-The Scene on the Hill.-Banks Fatally Defeated.-Price's Capture of Yankee

Trains.-Grand Results of Kirby Smith's Campaign.-Banks in Disgrace.-Yankee

Tenure of Louisiana.-FORREST'S EXPEDITION INTO KENTUCKY.-His Gallant Assault

on Fort Pillow.-The Yankee Story of "Massacre."-Capture of Union City.--Con-

federate Occupation of Paducah.-Chastisement of the Yankees on their own Theatre

of Outrages--CAPTURE OF PLYMOUTH, N. C.--General Hoke's Expedition.-Capture

of "Fort Wessel."--Exploit of the "Albemarle."--The Assaults upon the Town.--

Fruits of its Capture.-The Yankees in North Carolina.........
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CHAPTER XII.

Close of the Third Year of the War.-Sketch of the Subsequent Operatiors in Vir-

ginia and Georgia.-GRANT'S “ON-TO-RICHMOND."-The Combination Against the

Confederate Capital.--THE BATTLES OF THE WILDERNESS.-A Thrilling Crisis.-Grant

on the Verge of Rout. His First Design Baffled.-THE BATTLES OF SPOTTSYLVANIA

COURT-HOUSE.-Death of General Sedgwick.-THE CARNAGE OF MAY THE 12TH.-Five

Battles in Six Days.-Grant's Obstinacy.-"The Butcher."--Sheridan's Expedition.

-Death of General "Jeb" Stuart.-Butler's Operations on the South Side of the

James." The Beast" at the Back-Door of Richmond.-He is Driven to Bermuda

Hundred by Beauregard.-Defeat of Sigel in the Valley.-Grant's Movement Down

the Valley of the Rappahannock.-His Passage of the Pamunkey.-Ee-organization of

General Lee's Lines.-Grant's Favorite Tactics.-Yankee Exultation at his Approach

to Richmond--Caricatures of the Confederacy.—A Hasty Apotheosis.-A True The-

ory of Grant's "Flank Movements."-His Occupation of McClellan's Old Lines.-THE

BATTLE OF THE CHICKAHOMINY OR COLD HARBOR.-A Confederate Victory in Ten

Minutes.-What Had Become of Yankee Exultation.--Review of the Rival Routes to

Richmond.-Grant Crosses the James River.-His Second Grand Combination Against

Richmond.-Hunter's Capture of Staunton.-THE BATTLES OF PETERSRURG.-General

Wise's Heroic Address.-Engagement of 16th June.--Grand Assault of 18th June.--

on "the Cockade City."-A Decisive defeat of the Yankees.-Engagement at Port

Walthal Junction-Sheridan's Defeat Near Gordonsville. Hunter's Repulse at

Lynchburg. Two Affairs on the Weldon Railroad.-Grant's Second Combination a

Complete Failure.-Discouragement of the North.-The Gold Barometer.-Secretary

Chase's Declaration.-SHERMAN'S "ON-TO-ATLANTA."-His Flanking Movement.--

Engagement in Resaca Valley.--Johnston's Retreat.-Engagement at New Hope.--

Johnston's Telegram to Richmond.--Defeat of Sturgis's Expedition in Mississippi.--

BATTLE OF KENESAW MOUNTAIN.--Sherman's Successful Strategy.-The Confederates

Fall Back to Atlanta.-THE BATTLES OF ATLANTA.-Hood's Gallant Defence.-. ...

The Military Situation in July, 1864.--Grant's Failure.-His Consumption of Troops.

-Review of Yankee Atrocities in the Summer Campaign of 1864.--Sherman's Char

acter. His Letter on "Wild Beasts."-His War on Factory Girls.-Sufferings of

Confederate Women and Children.-Ravages in Georgia.-Hunter's Vandalism in

Virginia. "The Avengers of Fort Pillow."-Sturgis and his Demons.-The Spirit of

the Confederates.-.. Some Words on "Peace Negotiations."-A Piratical Prop-

osition and an Infamous Bribe.-The Heroic Choice of the Confederates....PAGE 261

CHAPTER XIII.

AMERICAN IDEAS: A REVIEW OF THE WAR.

Sentimental Regrets concerning American History.-The European Opinion of

"State" Institutions.-Calhoun, the Great Political Scholar of America.-His Doc-

trines. Conservatism of "Nullification."-Its "Union" Sentiment.-Brilliant Vision

of the South Carolina Statesman.-Webster, the Representative of the Imperfect and

Insolent "Education" of New England.-Yankee Libels in the shape of Party

Nomenclature.-Influence of State Institutions.--How they were Auxiliary to the

Union. The Moral Veneration, of the Union Peculiarly a Sentiment of the South.—

What the South had done for the Union.-Senator Hammond's Speech.-The States

not Schools of Provincialism and Estrangement.-The Development of America, a

North and South, not Hostile States.- Peculiar Ideas of Yankee Civilization.-Ideas

Nursed in "Free Schools."-Yankee Materialism.-How it has Developed in the

War.-Yankee Falsehoods and Yankee Cruelties.-His Commercial Politics.-Price

of his Liberties.-Ideas of the Confederates in the War.-How the Washington

Routine was introduced. The Richmond Government, Weak and Negative.--

No Political Novelty in the Confederacy.--The Future of Confederate Ideas.—

Intellectual Barrenness of the War.--Material of the Confederate Army.-Tho

Birth of Great Ideas.-The Old Political Idolators.-The Recompense of Suf-

fering......
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THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS.-Correspondence of the London Herald.. PAGE 803

APPENDIX.

JAIL JOURNAL IN FORT WARREN, ETC.

CHAPTER I.

RUNNING THE BLOCKADE.-The "Greyhound."-Passing the Blockade Lines.-The

Capture.-Yankee Courtesy.-Off Fortress Monroe....
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CHAPTER II.

CURIOSITIES OF THE YANKEE BLOCKADE.-Correspondence with Lord Lyons, PAGE 330

CHAPTER III.

A WEEK IN BOSTON.-Introduction to the U. S. Marshal.-In the Streets of Boston:

Two Spectacles.-A Circle of Secessionists.-The "Hub of the Universe.". PAGE 840

CHAPTER IV.

COMMITMENT TO FORT WARREN.-Horrors of the Yankee Bastile.-Torture of "A

Brutal Villain."-A Letter to Secretary Welles...
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CHAPTER V.

JOURNAL NOTES IN PRISON.-Precious Tributes of Sympathy.-Portrait of the Yan-

kee. A New England Shepherd.-Sufferings and Reflections.-Fourth of July in

Fort Warren....

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