Chapter XXIX: Charleston

A City of Ruins. -- Our Welcome. -- Charleston before the War.
-- The Seducer of States. -- Siege of the City. -- Removal of
the People. -- Assertion of the Charleston _Courier_. -- The
Evacuation. -- Blowing up of the Ironclads. -- Firing the City.
-- Bursting the Guns. -- Twenty-First Colored Regiment. --
Colonel Bennett occupies the City. -- Fifty-Fourth
Massachusetts extinguishing the Flames. -- "Gillmore's Town."
-- The "Swamp Angel." -- The _Courier_ Office. -- The Banks. --
South Carolina Troops in Confederate Service. -- The Mills
House. -- The Churches. -- The great Fire of 1861. --
Devastation. -- Slave Merchants. -- The Bell of St. Michael's.
-- The Guard-House. -- The Slave-Mart. -- Letters of the
Slave-Traders. -- Colonel Woodford in the Office of the
_Courier_. -- Sermon of Rev. Dr. Porter. -- A Yankee in his
Bed. -- Joy of the Colored People. -- "Rosa's" Mother. --
Washington's Birthday. -- John Brown in Charleston. --
Humiliation of the Rebels. -- Union Men. -- The Old Flag. --
How the People were cheated. 462

CHAPTER XXX.

THE LAST CAMPAIGN.

Position of Affairs. -- Grant's Letter to Sheridan. -- Cavalry
Raids. -- Sheridan's Movement to Waynesboro'. -- Attack upon
Early. -- Advance to James River. -- Moves to White House. --
Joins Grant. -- Alarm in Richmond. -- Lee's last Offensive
Movement. -- Attack on Fort Steadman. -- Repulse of Gordon. --
Grant's Order to "finish up" the Rebellion. -- Sherman's Visit
to Grant. -- Great Men in Council. -- Grant's Line. -- Sheridan
on the Move. -- Lee's Diversion against the Ninth Corps. --
Night Attack. -- A Rebel Prisoner. -- A Look at the Opposing
Forces. -- Hatcher's Run. -- Lee's Line of Fortifications. --
Grant feels like ending the Matter. -- Battle of Dinwiddie
Court-House. -- Advance of the Fifth Corps. -- Battle of Five
Forks. -- Charge of the Fifth Corps. -- Merritt's Attack. --
Rout of the Rebels. 485