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[30] Charles Cotesworth Pinckney was a brigadier-general in the Revolution and a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States. He was an ardent Federalist and twice declined to enter a National Cabinet, but in 1796 accepted the office of United States Minister to France. He was the Federalist candidate for Vice-President in 1800 and for President in 1804 and 1808. Other distinguished men in this family were Thomas, Charles, Henry Laurens, and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, the second.

[31] Caroline Hampton, a daughter of General Wade Hampton, of the Revolution, was the wife of John S. Preston, an ardent advocate of secession, who served on the staff of Beauregard at Bull Run and subsequently reached the rank of brigadier-general.

[32] William Howard Russell, a native of Dublin, who served as a correspondent of the London Times during the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, the War of Secession and the Franco-German War. He has been familiarly known as “Bull Run Russell.” In 1875 he was honorary Secretary to the Prince of Wales during the Prince’s visit to India.

[33] The “Sally Baxter” of the recently published “Thackeray Letters to an American Family.”

[34] William Gilmore Simms, the Southern novelist, was born in Charleston in 1806. He was the author of a great many volumes dealing with Southern life, and at one time they were widely read.

[35] Wade Hampton was a son of another Wade Hampton, who was an aide to General Jackson at the battle of New Orleans, and a grandson of still another Wade Hampton, who was a general in the Revolution. He was not in favor of secession, but when the war began he enlisted as a private and then raised a command of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, which as “Hampton’s Legion” won distinction in the war. After the war, he was elected Governor of South Carolina and was then elected to the United States Senate.

[36] John Hemphill was a native of South Carolina, who had removed to Texas, where he became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State, and in 1858 was elected United States Senator.

[37] Matthias Ward was a native of Georgia, but had removed to Texas in 1836. He was twice a delegate to National Democratic Conventions, and in 1858 was appointed to fill a vacancy from Texas in the United States Senate, holding that office until 1860.

[38] Mrs. Johnston was Lydia McLane, a daughter of Louis McLane, United States Senator from Delaware from 1827 to 1829, and afterward Minister to England. In 1831 he became Secretary of the Treasury and in 1833 Secretary of State. General Joseph E. Johnston was graduated from West Point in 1829 and had served in the Black Hawk, Seminole, and Mexican Wars. He resigned his commission in the United States Army on April 22, 1861.

[39] Mr. Hunter was a Virginian. He had long served in Congress, was twice speaker of the House, and in 1844 was elected a United States Senator, serving until 1861. He supported slavery and became active in the secession movement. At the Charleston Convention in 1860, he received the next highest vote to Stephen A. Douglas for President.

[40] Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth was a native of Saratoga County, New York. In 1860 he organized a regiment of Zouaves and became its Colonel. He accompanied Lincoln to Washington in 1861 and was soon sent with his regiment to Alexandria, where, on seeing a Confederate flag floating from a hotel, he personally rushed to the roof and tore it down. The owner of the hotel, a man named Jackson, met him as he was descending and shot him dead. Frank E. Brownell, one of Ellsworth’s men, then killed Jackson.

[41] William H. Emory had served in Charleston harbor during the Nullification troubles of 1831-1836. In 1846 he went to California, afterward served in the Mexican War, and later assisted in running the boundary line between Mexico and the United States under the Gadsden Treaty of 1853. In 1854 he was in Kansas and in 1858 in Utah. After resigning his commission, as related by the author, he was reappointed a Lieutenant-Colonel in the United States Army and took an active part in the war on the side of the North.

[42] John Bankhead Magruder was a graduate of West Point, who had served in the Mexican War, and afterward while stationed at Newport, R. I., had become famous for his entertainments. When Virginia seceded, he resigned his commission in the United States Army. After the war he settled in Houston, Texas.

The battle of Big Bethel was fought on June 10, 1861. The Federals lost in killed and wounded about 100, among them Theodore Winthrop, of New York, author of Cecil Dreeme. The Confederate losses were very slight.

[43] The battle of the Cowpens in South Carolina was fought on January 17, 1781; the British, under Colonel Tarleton, being defeated by General Morgan, with a loss to the British of 300 killed and wounded and 500 prisoners.

[44] Horace Binney, one of the foremost lawyers of Philadelphia, who was closely associated with the literary, scientific, and philanthropic interests of his time. His wife was a sister of Mrs. Chesnut, the author’s mother-in-law.

[45] Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, a native of Georgia and of Huguenot descent, who got his classical names from his father: his father got them from an uncle who claimed the privilege of bestowing upon his nephew the full name of his favorite hero. When the war began, Mr. Lamar had lived for some years in Mississippi, where he had become successful as a lawyer and had been elected to Congress. He entered the Confederate Army as the Colonel of a Mississippi regiment. He served in Congress after the war and was elected to the United States Senate in 1877. In 1885 he became Secretary of the Interior, and in 1888, a justice of the United States Supreme Court.

[46] Bradley Tyler Johnson, a native of Maryland, and graduate of Princeton, who had studied law at Harvard. At the beginning of the war he organized a company at his own expense in defense of the South. He was the author of a Life of General Joseph E. Johnston.

[47] Faustin Elie Soulouque, a negro slave of Hayti, who, having been freed, took part in the insurrection against the French in 1803, and rose by successive steps until in August, 1849, by the unanimous action of the parliament, he was proclaimed emperor.

[48] At Camden in August, 1780, was fought a battle between General Gates and Lord Cornwallis, in which Gates was defeated. In April of the following year near Camden, Lord Rawdon defeated General Greene.

[49] Augustus Baldwin Longstreet had great distinction in the South as a lawyer, clergyman, teacher, journalist, and author, and was successively president of five different colleges. His Georgia Scenes, a series of humorous papers, enjoyed great popularity for many years.

[50] Rev. Robert Barnwell, nephew of Hon. Robert Barnwell, established in Richmond a hospital for South Carolinians.

[51] The first battle of Bull Run, or Manassas, fought on July 21, 1861, the Confederates being commanded by General Beauregard, and the Federals by General McDowell. Bull Run is a small stream tributary to the Potomac.

[52] Edmund Kirby Smith, a native of Florida, who had graduated from West Point, served in the Mexican War, and been Professor of Mathematics at West Point. He resigned his commission in the United States Army after the secession of Florida.

[53] Henry Wilson, son of a farm laborer and self-educated, who rose to much prominence in the Anti-Slavery contests before the war. He was elected United States Senator from Massachusetts in 1855, holding the office until 1873, when he resigned, having been elected Vice-President of the United States on the ticket with Ulysses S. Grant.

[54] James Harlan, United States Senator from Iowa from 1855 to 1865. In 1865 he was appointed Secretary of the Interior.

[55] Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, a grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte’s brother Jerome and of Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore. He was a graduate of West Point, but had entered the French Army, where he saw service in the Crimea, Algiers, and Italy, taking part in the battle of Balaklava, the siege of Sebastopol, and the battle of Solferino. He died in Massachusetts in 1893.

[56] Mrs. Davis was born in Natchez, Mississippi, and educated in Philadelphia. She was married to Mr. Davis in 1845. In recent years her home has been in New York City, where she still resides (Dec. 1904).

[57] Samuel Barron was a native of Virginia, who had risen to be a captain in the United States Navy. At the time of Secession he received a commission as Commodore in the Confederate Navy.

[58] The reference is to John Bright, whose advocacy of the cause of the Union in the British Parliament attracted a great deal of attention at the time.

[59] James Murray Mason was a grandson of George Mason, and had been elected United States Senator from Virginia in 1847. In 1851 he drafted the Fugitive Slave Law. His mission to England in 1861 was shared by John Slidell. On November 8, 1861, while on board the British steamer Trent, in the Bahamas, they were captured by an American named Wilkes, and imprisoned in Boston until January 2, 1862. A famous diplomatic difficulty arose with England over this affair. John Slidell was a native of New York, who had settled in Louisiana and became a Member of Congress from that State in 1843. In 1853 he was elected to the United States Senate.

[60] The battle of Rich Mountain, in Western Virginia, was fought July 11, 1861, and General Garnett, Commander of the Confederate forces, pursued by General McClellan, was killed at Carrick’s Ford, July 13th, while trying to rally his rear-guard.

[61] William Lowndes Yancey was a native of Virginia, who settled in Alabama, and in 1844 was elected to Congress, where he became a leader among the supporters of slavery and an advocate of secession. He was famous in his day as an effective public speaker.

[62] By reason of illness, preoccupation in other affairs, and various deterrent causes besides, Mrs. Chesnut allowed a considerable period to elapse before making another entry in her diary.

[63] Fort Donelson stood on the Cumberland River about 60 miles northwest of Nashville. The Confederate garrison numbered about 18,000 men. General Grant invested the Fort on February 13, 1862, and General Buckner, who commanded it, surrendered on February 16th. The Federal force at the time of the surrender numbered 27,000 men; their loss in killed and wounded being 2,660 men and the Confederate loss about 2,000.

[64] General Burnside captured the Confederate garrison at Roanoke Island on February 8, 1862.

[65] Nashville was evacuated by the Confederates under Albert Sidney Johnston, in February, 1862.

[66] Richard, Lord Lyons, British minister to the United States from 1858 to 1865.

[67] Lord Russell was Foreign Secretary under the Palmerston administration of 1859 to 1865.

[68] Mary McDuffie was the second wife of Wade Hampton.

[69] The Merrimac was formerly a 40-gun screw frigate of the United States Navy. In April, 1861, when the Norfolk Navy-yard was abandoned by the United States she was sunk. Her hull was afterward raised by the Confederates and she was reconstructed on new plans, and renamed the Virginia. On March 2, 1862, she destroyed the Congress, a sailing-ship of 50 guns, and the Cumberland, a sailing-ship of 30 guns, at Newport News. On March 7th she attacked the Minnesota, but was met by the Monitor and defeated in a memorable engagement. Many features of modern battle-ships have been derived from the Merrimac and Monitor.

[70] On March 7 and 8, 1862, occurred the battle of Pea Ridge in Western Arkansas, where the Confederates were defeated, and on March 8th and 9th, occurred the conflict in Hampton Roads between the warships Merrimac, Cumberland, Congress, and Monitor.

[71] Louisa Susanna McCord, whose husband was David J. McCord, a lawyer of Columbia, who died in 1855. She was educated in Philadelphia, and was the author of several books of verse, including Caius Gracchus, a tragedy; she was also a brilliant pamphleteer.

[72] John D. Floyd, who had been Governor of Virginia from 1850 to 1853, became Secretary of War in 1857. He was first in command at Fort Donelson. Gideon J. Pillow had been a Major-General of volunteers in the Mexican War and was second in command at Fort Donelson. He and Floyd escaped from the Fort when it was invested by Grant, leaving General Buckner to make the surrender.

[73] Joseph Le Conte, who afterward arose to much distinction as a geologist and writer of text-books on geology. He died in 1901, while he was connected with the University of California. His work at Columbia was to manufacture, on a large scale, medicines for the Confederate Army, his laboratory being the main source of supply. In Professor Le Conte’s autobiography published in 1903, are several chapters devoted to his life in the South.

[74] New Madrid, Missouri, had been under siege since March 3, 1862.

[75] The Emancipation Proclamation was not actually issued until September 22, 1862, when it was a notice to the Confederates to return to the Union, emancipation being proclaimed as a result of their failure to do so. The real proclamation, freeing the slaves, was delayed until January 1, 1863, when it was put forth as a war measure. Mrs. Chesnut’s reference is doubtless to President Lincoln’s Message to Congress, March 6, 1862, in which he made recommendations regarding the abolition of slavery.

[76] The battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, in Tennessee, eighty-eight miles east of Memphis, had been fought on April 6 and 7, 1862. The Federals were commanded by General Grant who, on the second day, was reenforced by General Buell. The Confederates were commanded by Albert Sidney Johnston on the first day, when Johnston was killed, and on the second day by General Beauregard.

[77] New Orleans had been seized by the Confederates at the outbreak of the war. Steps to capture it were soon taken by the Federals and on April 18, 1862, the mortar flotilla, under Farragut, opened fire on its protecting forts. Making little impression on them, Farragut ran boldly past the forts and destroyed the Confederate fleet, comprising 13 gunboats and two ironclads. On April 27th he took formal possession of the city.

[78] The Siege of Yorktown was begun on April 5, 1862, the place being evacuated by the Confederates on May 4th.

[79] The battle of Williamsburg was fought on May 5, 1862, by a part of McClellan’s army, under General Hooker and others, the Confederates being commanded by General Johnston.

[80] General Benjamin F. Butler took command of New Orleans on May 2, 1862. The author’s reference is to his famous “Order No. 28,” which reads: “As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from the women (calling themselves ladies) of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall by word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her vocation.” This and other acts of Butler in New Orleans led Jefferson Davis to issue a proclamation, declaring Butler to be a felon and an outlaw, and if captured that he should be instantly hanged. In December Butler was superseded at New Orleans by General Banks.

[81] The Battle of Fair Oaks or Seven Pines, took place a few miles east of Richmond, on May 31 and June 1, 1862, the Federals being commanded by McClellan and the Confederates by General Joseph E. Johnston.

[82] Fort Pillow was on the Mississippi above Memphis. It had been erected by the Confederates, but was occupied by the Federals on June 5, 1862, the Confederates having evacuated and partially destroyed it the day before. On June 6, 1862, the Federal fleet defeated the Confederates near Memphis. The city soon afterward was occupied by the Federals.

[83] Corinth was besieged by the Federals, under General Halleck, in May, 1862, and was evacuated by the Confederates under Beauregard on May 29th.

[84] She lost her life in the Windsor Hotel fire in New York.

[85] This must be a reference to the Battle of Seven Pines or to the Campaign of the Chickahominy, up to and inclusive of that battle.

[86] The battle of Secessionville occurred on James Island, in the harbor of Charleston, June 16, 1862.

[87] Malvern Hill, the last of the Seven Days’ Battles, was fought near Richmond on the James River, July 1, 1862. The Federals were commanded by McClellan and the Confederates by Lee.

[88] The first battle of the Chickahominy, fought on June 27, 1862. It is better known as the battle of Gaines’s Mill, or Cold Harbor. It was participated in by a part of Lee’s army and a part of McClellan’s, and its scene was about eight miles from Richmond.

[89] Henry M. Rice, United States Senator from Minnesota, who had emigrated to that State from Vermont in 1835.

[90] Of ameliorations in modern warfare, Dr. John T. Darby said in addressing the South Carolina Medical Association, Charleston, in 1873: “On the route from the army to the general hospital, wounds are dressed and soldiers refreshed at wayside homes; and here be it said with justice and pride that the credit of originating this system is due to the women of South Carolina. In a small room in the capital of this State, the first Wayside Home was founded; and during the war, some seventy-five thousand soldiers were relieved by having their wounds dressed, their ailments attended, and very frequently by being clothed through the patriotic services and good offices of a few untiring ladies in Columbia. From this little nucleus, spread that grand system of wayside hospitals which was established during our own and the late European wars.”

[91] Flat Rock was the summer resort of many cultured families from the low countries of the South before the war. Many attractive houses had been built there. It lies in the region which has since become famous as the Asheville region, and in which stands Biltmore.

[92] The battle of Sharpsburg, or Antietam, one of the bloodiest of the war, was fought in western Maryland, a few miles north of Harper’s Ferry, on September 16 and 17, 1862, the Federals being under McClellan, and the Confederates under Lee.

[93] The battle of Chancellorsville, where the losses on each side were more than ten thousand men, was fought about fifty miles northwest of Richmond on May 2, 3, and 4, 1863. The Confederates were under Lee and the Federals under Hooker. In this battle Stonewall Jackson was killed.

[94] During the summer of 1862, after the battle of Malvern Hill and before Sharpsburg, or Antietam, the following important battles had taken place: Harrison’s Landing, July 3d and 4th; Harrison’s Landing again, July 31st; Cedar Mountain, August 9th; Bull Run (second battle), August 29th and 30th, and South Mountain, September 14th.

[95] Clement Baird Vallandigham was an Ohio Democrat who represented the extreme wing of Northern sympathizers with the South. He was arrested by United States troops in May, 1863, court-martialed and banished to the Confederacy. Not being well received in the South, he went to Canada, but after the war returned to Ohio.

[96] Vicksburg surrendered on July 4, 1863. Since the close of 1862, it had again and again been assaulted by Grant and Sherman. It was commanded by Johnston and Pemberton, Pemberton being in command at the time of the surrender. John C. Pemberton was a native of Philadelphia, a graduate of West Point, and had served in the Mexican War.

[97] Hood was a native of Kentucky and a graduate of West Point.

[98] Drury’s Bluff lies eight miles south of Richmond on the James River. Here, on May 16, 1864, the Confederates under Beauregard repulsed the Federals under Butler.

[99] The battle of Brandy Station, Va., occurred June 9, 1863.

[100] George S. Stoneman, a graduate of West Point, was now a Major-General, and Chief of Artillery in the Army of the Potomac. His raid toward Richmond in 1863 was a memorable incident of the war. After the war, he became Governor of California.

[101] Miss Constance Cary afterward married Burton Harrison and settled in New York where she became prominent socially and achieved reputation as a novelist.

[102] The battle of Chickamauga was fought on the river of the same name, near Chattanooga, September 19 and 20, 1863. The Confederates were commanded by Bragg and the Federals by Rosecrans. It was one of the bloodiest battles of the war; the loss on each side, including killed, wounded, and prisoners, was over 15,000.

[103] John C. Breckinridge had been Vice-President of the United States under Buchanan and was the candidate of the Southern Democrats for President in 1860. He joined the Confederate Army in 1861.

[104] Braxton Bragg was a native of North Carolina and had won distinction in the war with Mexico.

[105] John R. Thompson was a native of Richmond and in 1847 became editor of the Southern Literary Messenger. Under his direction, that periodical acquired commanding influence. Mr. Thompson’s health failed afterward. During the war he spent a part of his time in Richmond and a part in Europe. He afterward settled in New York and became literary editor of the Evening Post.

[106] The siege of Chattanooga, which had been begun on September 21st, closed late in November, 1863, the final engagements beginning on November 23d, and ending on November 25th. Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge were the closing incidents of the siege. Grant, Sherman, and Hooker were conspicuous on the Federal side and Bragg and Longstreet on the Confederate.

[107] Following the battle of Gettysburg on July 1st, 2d, and 3d, of this year, there had occurred in Virginia between Lee and Meade engagements at Bristoe’s Station, Kelly’s Ford, and Rappahannock Station, the latter engagement taking place on November 7th. The author doubtless refers here to the positions of Lee and Meade at Mine Run, December 1st. December 2d Meade abandoned his, because (as he is reported to have said) it would have cost him 30,000 men to carry Lee’s breastworks, and he shrank from ordering such slaughter.

[108] Burton Harrison, then secretary to Jefferson Davis, who married Miss Constance Cary and became well known as a New York lawyer. He died in Washington in 1904.

[109] Simon B. Buckner was a graduate of West Point and had served in the Mexican War. In 1887 he was elected Governor of Kentucky and, at the funeral of General Grant, acted as one of the pall-bearers.

[110] John H. Morgan, a native of Alabama, entered the Confederate army in 1861 as a Captain and in 1862 was made a Major-General. He was captured by the Federals in 1863 and confined in an Ohio penitentiary, but he escaped and once more joined the Confederate army. In September, 1864, he was killed in battle near Greenville, Tenn.

[111] Judah P. Benjamin, was born, of Jewish parentage, at St. Croix in the West Indies, and was elected in 1852 to represent Louisiana in the United States Senate, where he served until 1861. In the Confederate administration he served successively from 1861 to 1865 as Attorney-General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State. At the close of the war he went to England where he achieved remarkable success at the bar.

[112] The New York Hotel, covering a block front on Broadway at Waverley Place, was a favorite stopping place for Southerners for many years before the war and after it. In comparatively recent times it was torn down and supplanted by a business block.

[113] General Polk, commanding about 24,000 men scattered throughout Mississippi and Alabama, found it impossible to check the advance of Sherman at the head of some 40,000, and moved from Meridian south to protect Mobile. February 16, 1864, Sherman took possession of Meridian.

[114] Colonel Ulric Dahlgren was a son of the noted Admiral, John H. Dahlgren, who, in July, 1863, had been placed in command of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron and conducted the naval operations against Charleston, between July 10 and September 7, 1863. Colonel Dahlgren distinguished himself at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. The raid in which he lost his life on March 4, 1864, was planned by himself and General Kilpatrick.

[115] During the month of May, 1864, important battles had been fought in Virginia, including that of the Wilderness on May 6th-7th, and the series later in that month around Spottsylvania Court House.

[116] The battle of Stony Creek in Virginia was fought on June 28-29, 1864.

[117] General Johnston in 1863 had been appointed to command the Army of the Tennessee, with headquarters at Dalton, Georgia. He was to oppose the advance of Sherman’s army toward Atlanta. In May, 1864, he fought unsuccessful battles at Resaca and elsewhere, and in July was compelled to retreat across the Chattahoochee River. Fault was found with him because of his continual retreating. There were tremendous odds against him. On July 17th he was superseded by Hood.

[118] Raphael Semmes was a native of Maryland and had served in the Mexican War. The Alabama was built for the Confederate States at Birkenhead, England, and with an English crew and English equipment was commanded by Semmes. In 1863 and 1864 the Alabama destroyed much Federal shipping. On June 19, 1864, she was sunk by the Federal ship Kearsarge in a battle off Cherbourg. Claims against England for damages were made by the United States, and as a result the Geneva Arbitration Court was created. Claims amounting to $15,500,000 were finally awarded. This case has much importance in the history of international law.

[119] The battle of Mobile Bay, won under Farragut, was fought on August 5, 1864.

[120] On July 22d, Hood made a sortie from Atlanta, but after a battle was obliged to return.

[121] General Forrest made his raid on Memphis in August of this year.

[122] General McPherson was killed before Atlanta during the sortie made by Hood on July 22d. He was a native of Ohio, a graduate of West Point, and under Sherman commanded the Army of the Tennessee.

[123] After the battle, Atlanta was taken possession of and partly burned by the Federals.

[124] During the summer and autumn of 1864 several important battles had occurred. In addition to the engagements by Sherman’s army farther south, there had occurred in Virginia the battle of Cold Harbor in the early part of June; those before Petersburg in the latter part of June and during July and August; the battle of Winchester on September 19th, during Sheridan’s Shenandoah campaign, and the battle of Cedar Creek on October 19th.

[125] After the war, Dr. Darby became professor of Surgery in the University of the City of New York; he had served as Medical Director in the Army of the Confederate States and as Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the University of South Carolina; had also served with distinction in European wars.

[126] General Sherman had started from Chattanooga for his march across Georgia on May 6, 1864. He had won the battles of Dalton, Resaca, and New Hope Church in May, the battle of Kennesaw Mountain in June, the battles of Peach Tree Creek and Atlanta in July, and had formally occupied Atlanta on September 2d. On November 16th, he started on his march from Atlanta to the sea and entered Savannah on December 23d. Early in 1865 he moved his army northward through the Carolinas, and on April 26th received the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston.

[127] Reference is here made to the battle between Hood and Thomas at Nashville, the result of which was the breaking up of Hood’s army as a fighting force.

[128] Under last date entry, January 17th, the author chronicles events of later occurrence; it was her not infrequent custom to jot down happenings in dateless lines or paragraphs. Mr. Blair visited President Davis January 12th; Stephens, Hunter and Campbell were appointed Peace Commissioners, January 28th.

[129] Battles at Hatchen’s Run, in Virginia, had been fought on February 5, 6, and 7, 1865.

[130] The reference appears to be to General Edward E. Potter, a native of New York City, who died in 1889. General Potter entered the Federal service early in the war. He recruited a regiment of North Carolina troops and engaged in operations in North and South Carolina and Eastern Tennessee.

[131] John Taylor was graduated from Princeton in 1790 and became a planter in South Carolina. He served in Congress from 1806 to 1810, and in the latter year was chosen to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate, caused by the resignation of Thomas Sumter. In 1826 he was chosen Governor of South Carolina. He died in 1832.

[132] Fort Duquesne stood at the junction of the Monongahela and Alleghany Rivers. Captain Trent, acting for the Ohio Company, with some Virginia militiamen, began to build this fort in February, 1754. On April 17th of the same year, 700 Canadians and French forced him to abandon the work. The French then completed the fortress and named it Fort Duquesne. The unfortunate expedition of General Braddock, in the summer of 1755, was an attempt to retake the fort, Braddock’s defeat occurring eight miles east of it. In 1758 General Forbes marched westward from Philadelphia and secured possession of the place, after the French, alarmed at his approach, had burned it. Forbes gave it the name of Pittsburg.

[133] Elizabeth K. Adger, wife of the Rev. John B. Adger, D. D., of Charleston, a distinguished Presbyterian divine, at one time a missionary to Smyrna where he translated the Bible into the Armenian tongue. He was afterward and before the war a professor in the Theological Seminary at Columbia. His wife was a woman of unusual judgment and intelligence, sharing her husband’s many hardships and notable experiences in the East.

[134] Mr. Davis, while encamped near Irwinsville, Ga., had been captured on May 10th by a body of Federal cavalry under Lieutenant-Colonel Pritchard. He was taken to Fortress Monroe and confined there for two years, his release being effected on May 13, 1867, when he was admitted to bail in the sum of $100,000, the first name on his bail-bond being that of Horace Greeley.

[135] Simon Cameron became Secretary of War in Lincoln’s Administration, on March 4, 1861. On January 11, 1862, he resigned and was made Minister to Russia.

INDEX

Adams, James H., 26.

Adger, Mrs. John B., 396.

Aiken, Gov. William, his style of living, 253.

Aiken, Miss, her wedding, 240-241.

Alabama, the, surrender of, 314.

Alabama Convention, the, 15.

Alexandria, Va., Ellsworth killed at, 58.

Allan, Mrs. Scotch, 258.

Allston, Ben, his duel, 66;
a call from, 73.

Allston, Col., 234.

Allston, Washington, 46.

Anderson, Gen. Richard, 49, 225.

Anderson, Major Robert, 5;
his mistake, 34;
fired on, in Fort Sumter, 35;
when the fort surrendered, 39;
his flag-staff, 43;
his account of the fall of Fort Sumter, 48;
offered a regiment, 50, 119.

Antietam, battle of, 213.

Archer, Capt. Tom, a call from, 113;
his comments on Hood, 318;
his death, 343.

Athens, Ga., the raid at, 322.

Atlanta, battle of, 326.

Auzé, Mrs. —, her troubled life, 179.

Bailey, Godard, 388, 389.

Baldwin, Col. —, 84.

Baltimore, Seventh Regiment in, 41;
in a blaze, 47.

Barker, Theodore, 112.

Barnwell, Edward, 316.

Barnwell, Mrs. Edward, 208;
and her boy, 253-254.

Barnwell, Mary, 194, 316.

Barnwell, Rev. Robert, establishes a hospital, 83;
back in the hospital, 172;
sent for to officiate at a marriage, 185, 194;
his death, 238.

Barnwell, Mrs. Robert, her death, 239.

Barnwell, Hon. Robert W., sketch of, 10, 47;
on Fort Sumter, 50, 57, 77;
at dinner with, 98;
and the opposition to Mr. Davis, 104;
on fame, 106;
on democracies, 110, 160;
as to Gen. Chesnut, 163.

Barron, Commodore Samuel, 101;
an anecdote of, when a middy, 120-122;
a prisoner, 124.

Bartow, Col. —, 2;
and his wife, 71;
killed at Bull Run, 87;
eulogized in Congress, 90.

Bartow, Mrs. —, hears of her husband’s death, 87-88;
her husband’s funeral, 88;
a call on, 146, 162;
in one of the departments, 166;
her story of Miss Toombs, 193, 199, 204;
goes to Mulberry, 386.

Beauregard, Gen. P. G. T., 28;
a demigod, 31;
in council with the Governor, 33, 34;
leaves Montgomery, 50;
at Norfolk, 58;
his report of the capture of Fort Sumter, 62;
and the name Bull Run, 63;
faith in him, 77;
a horse for, 80;
in Richmond, 83-84;
his army in want of food, 97;
not properly supported, 99;
half Frenchman, 102;
letters from, 107, 131;
at Columbus, Miss., 139;
flanked at Nashville, 156;
and Shiloh, 163;
at Huntsville, 165;
fighting his way, 174;
retreating, 175;
evacuates Corinth, 178;
in disfavor, 183;
and Whiting, 307.

Bedon, Josiah, 369.

Bedon, Mrs. —, 369.

Benjamin, Judah P., 278, 287.

Berrien, Dr. —, 100, 193.

Berrien, Judge, 166.

Bibb, Judge, 9.

Bierne, Bettie, her admirers, 232, 234;
her wedding, 235.

Big Bethel, battle of, 81;
Magruder at, 196.

Binney, Horace, his offer to Lincoln, 64;
quoted, 128, 311.

Blair, Rochelle, 21.

Blake, Daniel, 214.

Blake, Frederick, 338.

Blake, Walter, negroes leave him, 199.

Bluffton, movement, the, 3.

Bonaparte, Jerome Napoleon, goes to Washington, 98;
described, 102;
disappointed in Beauregard, 128.

Boykin, A. H., 35.

Boykin, Dr., 17, 18, 21, 135, 404.

Boykin, E. M., 161, 389.

Boykin, Hamilton, 171.

Boykin, James, 220.

Boykin, J. H., 387.

Boykin, Col. John, 121;
his death in prison, 308.

Boykin, Kitty, 22.

Boykin, Mary, 312, 403.

Boykin, Tom, his company, 58, 135.

Bradley, Judy, 401.

Bragg, Gen. Braxton, joins Beauregard, 139, 147;
a stern disciplinarian, 203;
at Chickamauga, 248, 252;
defeated at Chattanooga, 258;
asks to be relieved, 259;
one of his horses, 303.

Brandy Station, battle of, 236.

Breckinridge, Gen. John C., 249;
in Richmond, 275;
at the Ives theatricals, 285-286, 289.

Brewster, Mr. —, 10;
at Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, 77;
remark by, 79;
a talk with, 82;
quoted, 108, 122;
criticism of, 124;
and Hood’s love-affair, 266-267;
on Joe Johnston’s removal, 320, 338.

Bright, John, his speeches in behalf of the Union, 109.

Brooks, Preston, 74.

Brown, Gov., of Georgia, 315.

Brown, John, of Harper’s Ferry, 1.

Browne, “Constitution,” going to Washington, 9.

Browne, Mrs. —, on spies, 206;
describes the Prince of Wales, 207.

Brumby, Dr. —, 361.

Buchanan, James, 16, 207.

Buckner, Gen. Simon B., 131;
in Richmond, 267-268, 275.

Bull Run, objection to the name, 63;
battle of, 85-90.
See _Manassas_.

Burnside, Gen. Ambrose E., captures Roanoke Island, 132;
money due from, to Gen. Preston, 159.

Burroughs, Mrs. —, 189.

Butler, Gen. B. F., his Order No. 28, 164-165;
at New Orleans, 183, 202;
threatening Richmond, 294;
kind to Roony Lee, 300;
at New Orleans, 346.

Byron, Lord, as a lover, 297;
quoted, 391.

Calhoun, John C., anecdote of, 17.

Calhoun, Mrs. —, 323.

Camden, S. C., excitement at, 3;
dwelling in, 21;
the author’s absence from, 22;
the author in, 42-46;
battle of, 75;
a romance in, 120-121;
return to, 127-130, 240-251;
Gen. Chesnut in, 250;
a picnic near, at Mulberry, 251;
return to, 304;
the author in, 384-404.

Cameron, Simon, a proclamation by, 92, 400.

Campbell, Judge John A., his resignation, 14;
his family, 77, 247.

Cantey, Mary, 183.

Cantey, Zack, 375.

Capers, Mrs. —, 26.

Carlyle, Thomas, and slavery in America, 136.

Carroll, Chancellor, 27.

Carroll, Judge, 204.

Cary, Constance, 263;
a call on, 264;
a call from, 272;
a call for, 272;
as Lady Teazle, 276, 277;
as Lydia Languish, 285;
makes a bonnet, 293;
describes a wedding, 300;
and Preston Hampton, 301.

Cary, Hetty, 244, 260, 272;
Gen. Chesnut with, 274.

Chancellorsville, battle of, 213, 245.

Charleston, the author in, 1-5;
Secession Convention adjourns to, 3;
Anderson in Fort Sumter, 5;
war steamer off, 9;
return to, 21-41;
Convention at, in a snarl, 26;
a ship fired into at, 31;
soldiers in streets of, 33;
Anderson refuses to capitulate at, 35;
the fort bombarded, 36;
Bull Run Russell in, 40;
return to, from Montgomery, 57-67;
thin-skinned people in, 60;
its condition good, 163;
bombardment of, 174;
under bombardment, 258;
surrender of, 350.

Chase, Col. —, 6.

Chattanooga, siege of, 258.

Chesnut, Col. James, Sr., sketch of, XVII;
looking for fire, 66;
and Nellie Custis, 93, 122;
his family, 127;
anecdote of, 135;
his losses from the war, 158;
his old wines, 249;
a letter from, 296;
and his wife, 310;
refuses to say grace, 372;
sketch of, 390-392;
illness of, 403.

Chesnut, Mrs. James, Sr., praises everybody, 59;
and Mt. Vernon, 63;
anecdote of, 66-67;
silver brought from Philadelphia by, 135;
sixty years in the South, 170, 236;
her death, 299;
and her husband, 310-311, 391.

Chesnut, Gen. James, Jr., his death described, XVIII;
his resignation as U. S. Senator, 3, 4, 9;
with Mr. Davis, 14, 19;
averts a duel, 21, 26;
at target practice, 29;
made an aide to Beauregard, 34;
goes to demand surrender of Fort Sumter, 34;
his interview with Anderson, 35;
orders Fort Sumter fired on, 36;
asleep in Beauregard’s room, 37;
describes the surrender, 39;
with Wade Hampton, 47;
his interview with Anderson, 48;
goes to Alabama, 52;
opposed to leaving Montgomery, 55, 57;
and Davin the spy, 60;
letter from, 63;
and the first shot at Fort Sumter, 65;
letter from, at Manassas Junction, 65;
in Richmond, 69;
a letter from, 74-75;
orders to move on, received by, 80;
receiving spies from Washington, 82;
with Davis and Lee, 83;
his servant Lawrence, 84;
his account of the battle of Bull Run, 88;
speech by, 90;
carries orders at Bull Run, 106;
returns to Columbia, 126;
on slavery, 130;
news for, from Richmond, 132;
criticized, 134;
his address to South Carolinians, 140;
asked to excuse students from military service, 141;
his military affairs, 143, 144;
negroes offer to fight for, 147;
attacked, 148;
reasonable and considerate, 151;
his adventure with Gov. Gist, 153;
illness of, 155;
offered a place on staff of Mr. Davis, 157;
and the fall of New Orleans, 159;
finds a home for negroes, 160;
on a visit to his father, 161;
as to Charleston’s defenses, 163;
promotion for, 163;
at dinner, 166, 167;
called to Richmond, 171;
his self-control, 173;
and the negroes, 181;
returns to Columbia, 190;
off to Richmond, 191, 194;
letter from, on the Seven Days’ fighting, 197;
hears the Confederacy is to be recognized abroad, 201;
staying with President Davis, 202;
his character in Washington, 204;
with Gen. Preston, 207;
his busy life, 215;
in Wilmington, 216;
at Miss Bierne’s wedding, 235;
an anecdote of, 242;
when a raiding party was near Richmond, 245;
at the war office with, 247;
a tour of the West by, 248;
at home reading Thackeray’s novels, 250;
visits Bragg’s army again, 252;
contented, but opposed to more parties, 257;
receives a captured saddle from Gen. Wade Hampton, 258;
manages Judge Wigfall, 261;
his stoicism, 262;
opposed to feasting, 263;
in good humor, 268;
in a better mood, 271;
denounces extravagance, 272;
and Hetty Cary, 274;
popularity of, with the Carys, 277;
with Col. Lamar at dinner, 279;
promotion for, 280;
his pay, 284;
at church, 292;
going to see the President, 293;
made a brigadier-general, 302, 305;
his return to South Carolina, 307;
his work in saving Richmond, 309;
called to Charleston, 315;
his new home in Columbia, 316;
his friend Archer, 318-319;
returns to Columbia, 330;
in Charleston, 337;
says the end has come, 341;
urges his wife to go home, 344-345;
an anecdote of, 346;
escapes capture, 350;
a letter from, 355;
in Lincolnton, 359;
ordered to Chester, S. C., 364;
letter from, 366;
his cotton, 367;
and slavery, 374;
receives news of Lincoln’s assassination, 380;
fate of, 381.

Chesnut, Mrs. James, Jr., the author, importance of her diary, XIII;
how she wrote it, XV;
her early life, XVI;
her home described, XX;
history of her diary, XXI;
in Charleston, 1-5;
on keeping a journal, 1;
visits Mulberry, 2;
her husband’s resignation as Senator, 3;
in Montgomery, 6-20;
on the political outlook, 7;
hears a story from Robert Toombs, 7;
at dinners, etc., 9-11;
calls on Mrs. Davis, 12;
sees a woman sold at auction, 13;
sees the Confederate flag go up, 14;
at the Confederate Congress, 18;
in Charleston, 21-41;
at Mulberry again, 21;
a petition to, from house-servants, 22;
her father-in-law, 22;
goes to the Charleston Convention, 23;
one of her pleasantest days, 26;
her thirty-eighth birthday, 27;
a trip by, to Morris Island, 31;
her husband goes to Anderson with an ultimatum, 35;
on a housetop when Sumter was bombarded, 35-36;
watching the negroes for a change, 38;
in Camden, 42-46;
the lawn at Mulberry, 43;
her photograph-book, 43;
a story of her maid Maria, 45;
at Montgomery, 47-56;
a cordial welcome to, 48;
a talk by, with A. H. Stephens and others, 49-54;
a visit to Alabama, 52;
at luncheon with Mrs. Davis, 55;
in Charleston, 57-67;
goes to Richmond, 62, 66;
letter to, from her husband, 65;
in Richmond, 68-76;
incidents in the journey, 68-69;
a talk by, with Mrs. Davis, 71;
at the Champ-de-Mars, 72;
at Mr. Davis’s table, 73;
letters to, from her husband, 74, 75;
at White Sulphur Springs, 77-81;
in Richmond, 82-126;
has a glimpse of war, 83;
weeps at her husband’s departure, 84;
the battle of Bull Run, 85-91;
Gen. Chesnut’s account of the battle, 88;
describes Robert E. Lee, 93-94;
at a flag presentation, 96;
her money-belt, 101;
goes to a hospital, 107, 108;
an unwelcome caller on, 111;
knitting socks, 113;
her fondness for city life, 124;
leaving Richmond, 125;
in Camden, 127-130;
her sister Kate, 127;
a letter to, from old Col. Chesnut, 127;
illness of, 128;
a hiatus in her diary, 130;
in Columbia, 131-209;
a visit to Mulberry, 134;
illness of, 135;
reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 142;
her influence with her husband in public matters, 145;
overhears her husband attacked, 148;
her husband and her callers, 151-153;
her husband’s secretary, 154;
depressed, 157;
anniversary of her wedding, 158;
at the Governor’s, 160;
as to love and hatred, 162;
her impression of hospitality in different cities, 166-167;
at Mulberry, 169;
a flood of tears, 173;
illness of, 180;
a call on, by Governor Pickens, 181;
knows how it feels to die, 182;
at Decca’s wedding, 184-185;
Gen. Chesnut in town, 190;
a letter to, from her husband, 197;
assisting the Wayside Hospital, 205-206;
goes to Flat Rock, 210;
illness of, 210;
in Alabama, 216-228;
meets her husband in Wilmington, 216;
a melancholy journey by, 220-221;
finds her mother ill, 221;
Dick, a negro whom she taught to read, 224;
her father’s body-servant Simon, 225;
in Montgomery, 226-227;
in Richmond, 229-239;
asked to a picnic by Gen. Hood, 230;
hears two love-tales, 232-233;
at Miss Bierne’s wedding, 235;
receives from Mrs. Lee a likeness of the General, 236;
burns some personal papers, 239;
in Camden, 240-251;
sees Longstreet’s corps going West, 241;
a story of her mother, 243;
at church during the battle of Chancellorsville, 244-245;
to the War Office with her husband, 247;
a tranquil time at home, 250;
a picnic at Mulberry, 251;
in Richmond, 252-303;
lives in apartments, 252;
an adventure in Kingsville, 255-257;
gives a party, 257;
criticized for excessive hospitality, 263;
with Mrs. Davis, 264;
drives with Gen. Hood, 265-267, 271;
three generals at dinner, 268;
at a charade party, 273-274;
an ill-timed call, 278;
Thackeray’s death, 282;
gives a luncheon-party, 282-283;
at private theatricals, 285;
gives a party for John Chesnut, 286;
goes to a ball, 287;
a walk with Mr. Davis, 291;
selling her old clothes, 300;
her husband made a brigadier-general, 302;
in Camden, 304;
leaving Richmond, 304;
Little Joe’s funeral, 306;
experiences in a journey, 307-308;
friends with her at Mulberry, 309;
writes of her mother-in-law, 310-311;
at Bloomsbury again, 311;
in Columbia, 313-343;
at home in a cottage, 314-316;
attendance of, at the Wayside Hospital, 321, 324, 325;
at Mary Preston’s wedding, 327;
entertains President Davis, 328-329;
a visit to, from her sister, 329;
letters to, from Mrs. Davis, 331, 332, 335;
her ponies, 336;
distress of, at Sherman’s advance, 341;
her husband at home, 341;
in Lincolnton, 344-366;
her flight from Columbia, 344-347;
her larder empty, 361;
refuses an offer of money, 363;
her husband ordered to Chester, 364;
losses at the Hermitage, 364;
illness of, 364;
in Chester, 367-383;
incidents in a journey by, 367-369;
a call on, from Gen. Hood, 376;
on Lincoln’s assassination, 380;
in Camden, 384-404;
goes to Mulberry, 386;
sketch by, of her father-in-law, 390-392;
goes to the Hermitage, 395;
illness of, 399;
no heart to write more, 403.

Chesnut, Capt. John, a soft-hearted slave-owner, 21;
enlists as a private, 58;
his plantation, 64;
letter from, 132;
negroes to wait on, 163, 187;
and McClellan, 192;
in Stuart’s command, 198;
one of his pranks, 202;
goes to his plantation, 250;
joins his company, 252, 287;
a flirtation by, 328, 351, 381.

Chesnut, John, Sr., 392.

Chesnut, Miss, her presence of mind, 364;
bravery shown by, 375.

Chesnut family, the, 22.

Chester, S. C., the author in, 367-383;
the journey to, 367-369;
news of Lincoln’s assassination in, 380.

Cheves, Edward, 199.

Cheves, Dr. John, 172.

Cheves, Langdon, 24;
a talk with, 26;
farewell to, 37.

Chickahominy, battle on the, 177;
as a victory, 180;
another battle on the, 196.

Chickamauga, battle of, 248.

Childs, Col. —, 362, 363, 364;
his generosity, 367.

Childs, Mrs. Mary Anderson, 16.

Chisolm, Dr. —, 314.

Choiseul, Count de, 322.

Clay, C. C., a supper given by, 283, 302, 374.

Clay, Mrs. C. C., as Mrs. Malaprop, 285.

Clay, Mrs. Lawson, 273.

Clayton, Mr. —, 2;
on the Government, 110.

Clemens, Jere, 12.

Cobb, Howell, desired for President of the Confederacy, 6, 18;
his common sense, 68;
arrest of, 398.

Cochran, John, a prisoner in Columbia, 133.

Coffey, Capt. —, 257.

Cohen, Mrs. Miriam, her son in the war, 166;
a hospital anecdote by, 176;
a sad story told by, 178;
her story of Luryea, 183.

Colcock, Col. —, 2.

Cold Harbor, battle of, 196.

Columbia, Secession Convention in, 2;
small-pox in, 3;
pleasant people in, 166;
dinner in, 167;
Wade Hampton in, 187;
the author in, 131-209;
Governor and council in, 132;
a trip from, to Mulberry, 135;
critics of Mr. Davis in, 140;
hospitality in, 166;
people coming to, from Richmond, 169;
Wade Hampton in, wounded, 187-193;
Prof. Le Conte’s powder-factory in, 187;
the Wayside Hospital in, 205;
called from, to Alabama, 218;
the author takes a cottage in, 314-316;
President Davis visits, 328-329;
burning of, 351, 358, 361, 362, 396.

Confederate flag, hoisting of, at Montgomery, 14.

Congress, the, burning of, 140.

Cooper, Gen. —, 85, 103, 149.

Corinth, evacuated, 178.

Cowpens, the, battle of, 63.

Coxe, Esther Maria, 257.

Cumberland, the, sinking of, 139.

Cummings, Gen., a returned prisoner, 200.

Curtis, George William, 200.

Custis, Nellie, 93, 236.

Cuthbert, Capt. George, wounded, 211;
shot at Chancellorsville, 213.

Cuthbert, Mrs. George, 337.

Dacre, May, 135.

Dahlgren, Admiral John H., 294.

Dahlgren, Col. U., his raid and death, 294.

Daniel, Mr., of The Richmond Examiner, 109.

Darby, Dr. John T., surgeon of the Hampton Legion, 57;
false report of his death, 88, 205;
with Gen. Hood, 230;
goes to Europe, 293, 296;
his marriage, 327.

Da Vega, Mrs. —, 369.

Davin, —, as a spy, 59.

Davis, President Jefferson, 6, 8;
when Secretary of War, 11;
elected President, 12;
no seceder, 29;
and Hampton’s Legion, 147;
a dinner at his house, 49;
a long war predicted by, 53;
his want of faith in success, 71;
on his Arabian horse, 72;
at his table, 73;
the author met by, 82;
goes to Manassas, 86;
speech by, 90;
the author asked to breakfast with, 95;
presents flag to Texans, 96;
as a reconstructionist, 104;
ill, 124;
criticism of, 129;
his inauguration, 132;
his address criticized, 134;
a defense of, 140;
Gen. Gonzales complains to, 148;
abuse of, 150;
and Butler’s “Order No. 28,” 165;
on the battle-field, 202;
wants negroes in the army, 224;
a reception at his house, 246;
ill, 246;
in Charleston, 253;
riding alone, 263;
as a dictator, 265;
his Christmas dinner, 268;
a talk with, 274;
Congress asks for advice, 280;
a walk home with, 283;
attacked for nepotism, 290;
walks home from church with the author, 291;
speaks to returned prisoners, 301;
when Little Joe died, 305;
his Arabian horse, 309;
and Joe Johnston’s removal, 326;
in Columbia, 328-329;
on his visit to Columbia, 331;
praise of, 360;
when Lee surrendered, 381;
traveling leisurely, 394;
capture of, 395, 398.

Davis, Jefferson, Jr., 306.

Davis, Mrs. Jefferson, a call on, 12;
at one of her receptions, 49;
a talk with, 53;
at lunch with, 55;
adores Mrs. Emory, 61;
the author met by, 69;
her entourage, 76;
her ladies described, 79;
brings news of Bull Run, 86;
announces to Mrs. Bartow news of her husband’s death, 88;
in her drawing-room, 90;
“a Western woman,” 102;
a landlady’s airs to, 192;
says that the enemy are within three miles of Richmond, 246;
a call from, 263;
a drive with, 264;
at the Semmes’ charade, 273;
her servants, 275;
a reception by, 281;
a call on, 282;
gives a luncheon, 284;
her family unable to live on their income, 300;
depressed, 301;
a drive with, 302;
overlooked in her own drawing-room, 318;
letters from, 331, 332, 335;
in Chester, 377;
a letter from, 378.

Davis, “Little Joe,” 264;
his tragic death, 305;
his funeral, 306, 309.

Davis, Nathan, 148;
a call from, 152, 210.

Davis, Nick, 12.

Davis, Rev. Thomas, 252.

Davis, Varina Anne (“Winnie, Daughter of the Confederacy”), 378.

Deas, George, 12, 298.

De Leon, Agnes, back from Egypt, 110.

De Leon, Dr., 9.

Derby, Lord, 136.

Douglas, Stephen A., 12;
his death, 60.

Drayton, Tom, 148.

Drury’s Bluff, battle of, 230.

Duncan, Blanton, anecdote of, 150, 208.

Eliot, George, 279.

Elliott, Stephen, 318.

Ellsworth, Col. E. E., his death at Alexandria, 58.

Elmore, Grace, 155.

Elzey, Gen. —, tells of the danger of Richmond, 246.

Emancipation Proclamation, the, 153, 199.

Emerson, R. W., the author reading, 64.

Emory, Gen. William H., his resignation, 61.

Emory, Mrs. William H., Franklin’s granddaughter, 61, 84;
a clever woman, 352.

Eustis, Mrs. —, 124.

Fair Oaks or Seven Pines, battle of, 171.

Farragut, Admiral D. G., captures New Orleans, 158, 319.

Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, 77.

Fernandina, Fla., 2.

Fitzpatrick, Mrs. —, 8, 53.

Floyd, John D., at Fort Donelson, 140.

Ford, Mary, 312.

Forrest, Gen. Nathan B., 323.

Fort Donelson, surrender of, 131, 140.

Fort Duquesne, 392.

Fort McAlister, 339.

Fort Moultrie, 42.

Fort Pickens, 47.

Fort Pillow, given up, 177.

Fort Sumter, Anderson in, 5, 8;
if it should be attacked, 9;
folly of an attack on, 12;
and Anderson, 29;
surrender of, demanded, 34;
bombardment of, 35;
on fire, 38;
surrender of, 39;
those who captured it, 42;
who fired the first shot at, 65.

Freeland, Maria, 257.

Frost, Henry, 147.

Frost, Judge —, 54.

Frost, Tom, 26.

Gaillard, Mrs. —, 173.

Garnett, Dr. —, his brother’s arrival from the North, 107, 260.

Garnett, Mary, 9.

Garnett, Muscoe Russell, 144.

Garnett, Gen. R. S., killed at Rich Mountain, 119.

Gay, Captain, 382.

Georgetown, enemy landing in, 165.

Gibbes, Dr. —, 26;
reports incidents of the war, 93;
bad news from, 100.

Gibbes, Mrs. —, 32.

Gibbes, Mrs. Hampton, 170.

Gibson, Dr. —, 117.

Gibson, Mrs., her prophecy, 169;
her despondency, 174.

Gidiere, Mrs. —, 4.

Gist, Gov., 152;
an anecdote of, 153.

Gladden, Col. —, 156.

Gonzales, Gen. —, his farewell to the author, 125;
complains of want of promotion, 148.

Goodwyn, Artemus, 21.

Goodwyn, Col. —, 218, 350.

Gourdin, Robert, 25, 32.

Grahamville, to be burned, 336.

Grant, Gen. U. S., and the surrender of Fort Donelson, 131;
at Vicksburg, 219;
a place for, 269;
his success, 270;
pleased with Sherman’s work, 299;
reenforcements for, 310;
before Richmond, 322, 333;
closing in on Lee, 346;
Richmond falls before, 377.

Greeley, Horace, quoted, 116.

Green, Allen, 32, 95, 360.

Green, Mrs. Allen, 33.

Green, Halcott, 171, 203.

Greenhow, Mrs. Rose, warned the Confederates at Manassas, 176;
in Richmond, 201, 204.

Gregg, Maxcy, 31.

Grundy, Mrs., 257.

Halleck, Gen., being reenforced, 165;
takes Corinth, 178.

Hamilton, Jack, 36.

Hamilton, Louisa, her baby, 36, 211.

Hamilton, Prioleau, 374.

Hamilton, Mrs. Prioleau, 370.

Hammy, Mary, 66, 76;
her _fiancé_, 79;
many strings to her bow, 100;
her disappointment, 118;
in tears, 124.

Hampton, Christopher, 161, 264;
leaving Columbia, 344, 399.

Hampton, Frank, his death and funeral, 237;
a memory of, 238.

Hampton, Mrs. Frank, 40, 42;
on flirting with South Carolinians, 118, 173.

Hampton, Miss Kate, 218;
anecdote of, 381.

Hampton Legion, the, Dr. Darby its surgeon, 57;
in a snarl, 85;
at Bull Run, 105.

Hampton, Preston, 40, 237, 260, 264, 272;
his death in battle, 332.

Hampton Roads, the Merrimac in, 164.

Hampton, Sally, 293, 332;
marriage of, 399.

Hampton, Gen. Wade, of the Revolution, 39, 43, 47.

Hampton, Mrs. Wade, the elder, 43.