Chapter XI

Leave for Richmond--Ordered to Evansport, Va., to Blockade the 140
Potomac--Worthless Ammunition--Forces on the Maryland
Shore--Constant Firing All Winter--Orders to Fall Back to
Fredericksburg--"Come to Richmond Immediately"--Orders from Gen.
Lee--New Berne Falls--Relieve Branch at Kinston--Ordered to
Wilmington--Build Defenses--Fort Fisher Constructed--Col.
William Lamb in Command--Running the Blockade--Whitworth
Guns--July 17, 1862, Placed in Command of the Department of
North Carolina and Southern Virginia--Defend a Line from the
Appomattox to Cape Fear--July 31, Shell Gen. McClellan's
Army--Constructed Defenses of Petersburg--Battle of
Fredericksburg--Pelham--President Calls for Me--Gen. Lee's
Considerate Conduct--Gen. Foster at Tarboro, N. C.--He
Interviews an Old Darky--Railroad Bridge at Goldsboro, N. C.,
Burned--Weak Defense Made--How I Got Supplies from Suffolk--Mrs.
Johnston and Gen. Viele--Was Fannie Cooper a Spy?--Martial
Law--Sidney Lanier--Flag of Truce Boats--Exchange of Prisoners

CHAPTER XII.

Telegram from Secretary of War--Go to Richmond--Declined Going 159
to Vicksburg--Gen. Longstreet--He Starts for
Suffolk--Suffolk--Capture of a Fort and Garrison--No Report Made
of the Capture--Statement of Lieut. George Reese--Longstreet
Ordered to Join Lee--Dispatches--Battle of
Chancellorsville--Withdraw from Suffolk--An Impertinent
Note--Court of Inquiry Asked for and Refused--Possible Result
Had Longstreet Obeyed Orders--Ten Dispatches to
Longstreet--Orders to Report to Gen. Johnston

CHAPTER XIII.

Leave Petersburg for Jackson, Miss.--Visit Home--My Division 178
Composed of the Brigades of Gens. Maxey, Evans, and
McNair--Extraordinary Correspondence between Gen. Johnston and
President Davis--Movements to Attack Grant at Vicksburg--Fall of
Vicksburg--Retreat to Jackson--Siege of Jackson--Visit
Home--Negro Troops Surround the House--Narrow
Escape--Vandalism--Johnston Takes Command of the Army of
Tennessee--Polk in Command of Army of Mississippi--A Court of
Inquiry That Was Not Held--My Division at Meridian--President
Davis--Jackson Burned--Sherman's Advance on Meridian--Ordered to
Mobile--Polk Crossing Tombigbee River--He Is Slow to Move--Go to
Demopolis--Mr. Fournier--Sent to
Lauderdale--Tuscaloosa--Montevallo--Reach Rome--Fight at
Rome--Join Gen. Johnston at Cassville

CHAPTER XIV.

Cassville--The Line of Battle--Hood's Line Not 196
Enfiladed--History of That Conference--Two Lieutenant Generals
Invite Their Commander to a Council of War--Johnston Obliged to
Fall Back--We Cross the Etowah River--Dallas--New Hope
Church--Constant Fighting--Rain, Rain--Death of Lieut. Gen.
Polk--Battle of the Latimer House--My Division Occupies Little
and Big Kennesaw Mountains--The Battle--Incidents of the
Battle--Confederates Save Wounded Union Soldiers from
Burning--Kennesaw During Night Bombardment--Col. Martin's Noble
Conduct--The Irony of Fate--Maj. Poten and French Soldier

CHAPTER XV.

Our Army Falls Back from Kennesaw--Confederate "Rebel 212
Yell"--Occupy Works on the Chattahoochee River--A. P. Stewart
Appointed Lieutenant General--Assumes Command of the Army of
Mississippi--Texas Brigade Fight to Obtain Tools--We Cross the
Chattahoochee--Arrival of Gen. B. Bragg--Gen. Johnston
Relieved--President Davis's Remark about Relieving Johnston from
Command--Johnston's Policy versus Hood's--Battle of Peachtree
Creek--We Occupy Atlanta--Battle of Atlanta--S. D. Lee Assigned
to Command of Hood's Corps--Gen. Ector Wounded--Capt. Ward
Killed--Battle of July 28, 1864--I Apply to Be Relieved from
Serving with Hood--Gen. M. Jeff Thompson--Condition of the Camps
of United States Troops--Evidence of the Terrible Fire of Small
Arms--Evacuation of Atlanta--Jonesboro and Lovejoy's Station