Chapter XXI: CAMDEN, S. C., May 2, 1865-August 2, 1865

Once more at Bloomsbury—Surprising fidelity of negroes—Stories
of escape—Federal soldiers who plundered old estates—Mulberry
partly in ruins—Old Colonel Chesnut last of the grand
seigniors—Two classes of sufferers—A wedding and a
funeral—Blood not shed in vain 384

INDEX 405

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING
PAGE

MRS. JAMES CHESNUT, JR. _Frontispiece_

From a Portrait in Oil. Reproduced by courtesy of the owner,
Mr. David R. Williams, of Camden, S. C.

A PAGE OF THE DIARY IN FACSIMILE xxii

THE OLD BAPTIST CHURCH IN COLUMBIA, S. C. 4

Here First Met the South Carolina Secession Convention.

VIEW OF CHARLESTON DURING THE WAR 22

From an Old Print.

FORT SUMTER UNDER BOMBARDMENT 38

From an Old Print.

A GROUP OF CONFEDERATE GENERALS 94

Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, Albert Sidney Johnston,
“Stonewall” Jackson, John B. Hood, and Pierre G. T. Beauregard.

MULBERRY HOUSE, NEAR CAMDEN, S. C. 128

From a Recent Photograph.

A GROUP OF CONFEDERATE WOMEN 148

Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Mrs. Francis W. Pickens, Mrs. Louisa S.
McCord, Miss S. B. C. Preston, Mrs. David R. Williams (the
author’s sister Kate), Miss Isabella D. Martin.

ANOTHER GROUP OF CONFEDERATE GENERALS 230

Robert Toombs, John H. Morgan, John C. Preston, Joseph B.
Kershaw, James Chesnut, Jr., Wade Hampton.

THE DAVIS MANSION IN RICHMOND, THE “WHITE HOUSE” OF THE
CONFEDERACY 264

Now the Confederate Museum.

MRS. JAMES CHESNUT, SR. 310

From a Portrait in Oil by Gilbert Stuart. Reproduced by
courtesy of the owner, Mr. David R. Williams, of Camden, S. C.

MRS. CHESNUT’S HOME IN COLUMBIA IN THE LAST YEAR OF THE WAR 314

Here Mrs. Chesnut entertained Jefferson Davis.

RUINS OF MILLWOOD, WADE HAMPTON’S ANCESTRAL HOME 350

From a Recent Photograph.

A NEWSPAPER “EXTRA” 380

Issued in Chester, S. C., and Announcing the Assassination of
Lincoln.

COL. JAMES CHESNUT, SR. 390

From a Portrait in Oil by Gilbert Stuart. Reproduced by
courtesy of the owner, Mr. David R. Williams, of Camden, S. C.

SARSFIELD, NEAR CAMDEN, S. C. 402

Built by General Chesnut after the War, and the Home of himself
and Mrs. Chesnut until they Died. From a Recent Photograph.