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| Preface |
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At the Mouth of the Rio Grande |
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I Fall in with H.M.'s Frigate Immortalite |
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Lynch Law Three Hours After Reaching America |
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Visits Across the Mexican Border |
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Cocktails in the Most Scientific Manner |
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The 3d Texas Infantry on Review |
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General Bee Hides His Pistols at a Dance |
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Mexican Girls Are a Badly Painted Lot |
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The Texan Rangers Sing ``God Save the Queen!'' - |
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IAm Now Comparatively Reconciled to Shaking Hands with Everyone |
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From Brownsville to San Antonio |
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Hiring a Judge for Assistant Mule Driver |
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Wild Hogs Breathing in My Face |
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Encountering General Magruder |
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A Theatrical Evening with the General |
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Scorpions, Prairie Wolves and Rattlesnakes |
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Well-Cooked Polecat Is As Tasty As a Pig |
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How Texan Females Take Their Snuff |
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I Am Called a ``Right Good Companion for the Road'' |
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From San Antonio to Houston |
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Sight-seeing in San Antonio |
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Auctioning off Some Excess Luggage |
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Confederate Officers Nearly Always Propose the Queen's Health |
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Pot Shots at Jack Rabbits |
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The Spitting Gets a Little Wild |
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Eighteen People in One Stagecoach |
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My First Experience with Texas Railroads |
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Houston Is Better Than I Expected |
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Getting to Know an ``Aristocratic Negro'' |
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An Encounter with Sam Houston |
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Inspecting Galveston's Defenses |
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I Dance an American Cotillion |
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I Make a Present of My Evening Clothes |
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En Route on the Shreveport Stage |
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Northwestern Federal Troops Are Best |
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My Fellow Travelers Talk about Slavery |
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Crayfishing with General Kirby Smith's Wife |
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The Yankees Close at Hand |
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By Sternwheeler to Harrisonburg |
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Sneaking along the Mississippi |
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Dodging Snakes, Alligators and Gunboats |
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I Get the Immense Luxury of a Bed to Myself |
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I Cross the Father of Waters |
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Trying to Reach Vicksburg |
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Dinner with Seven Virgins Seated All in a Row |
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The Yankees Cut the Railroad |
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``What on Earth Are You Doing in Jackson Just Now?'' |
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How to Save a House from Yankee Raiders |
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At Joe Johnston's Headquarters |
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Honored with the Only Fork in General Johnston's Mess |
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The General Collects Wood for a Locomotive |
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An Engineer Shoots a Passenger |
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People Are Careful What They Say When a Bullet May Be the Reply |
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Dinner with General Maury |
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Amazing Reminiscences of ``Stonewall'' Jackson |
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Through Montgomery, Atlanta, and Chattanooga |
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At General Hardee's Headquarters |
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The General's Flirtations |
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General Polk Invites Me to Stay at Shelbyville |
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The Fury of Southern Women |
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In the South, an Aggrieved Husband Is Free to Shoot |
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``How Can You Subdue Such a Nation as This!'' |
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One of the Most Extraordinary Characters I Ever Met |
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In a Baggage Car with General Bragg |
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I Meet General Joe Wheeler |
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How to Lead Confederate Soldiers |
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Watching General Bragg Get Baptized |
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General Polk's Close Call |
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Jealousy between the Armies |
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Reconnoitering the Federals |
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Confederate Cavalry Tactics |
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The Object of Killing a Yankee Is to Get His Boots |
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Traveling with a Woman Soldier |
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At the Augusta Arsenal and Powder Plant |
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Missing a Dinner for Lack of Evening Clothes |
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The Proper Way to Capture Charleston |
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A Slave Auction Is Not Very Agreeable to an Englishman |
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Exciting New Submarine Inventions |
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I Call on General Beauregard's |
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The Real Reason Why Beauregard's Hair Has Turned Gray |
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The Disadvantage of the Ladies' Car Is the Constant Liability of Being Turned Out of One's Place for a Female |
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Blockade Running As a Product of British Energy and Enterprise |
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Miss Sennec Is Too Pretty to Risk Collision with a Shell |
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Another Terrific Fight for a Train Seat |
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Through the Richmond Defenses |
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A Talk with Judah Benjamin |
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A Plea for British Recognition |
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``Maine Will Probably Try to Join Canada'' |
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Calling on the Secretary of War |
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More Executions and Reprisals |
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Many Richmond Papers Seem Scarcely More Respectable than the New York Ones |
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Chasing after Lee and Longstreet |
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Ruined Fences and Lonely Chimneys |
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I Am Impudent Enough to Win Supper from Two Good- Looking Female Citizens |
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Marching Through the Shenandoah Valley |
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Winchester, Shuttlecock of the Confederacy |
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Northern Vengeance on the Rampage |
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First Spoils from Pennsylvania |
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A Sulky Reception in Maryland |
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Campaigning in Pennsylvania |
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Chambersburg Hears ``Dixie'' |
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``Take Care, Madam, Hood's Boys Are Great at Storming Breastworks'' |
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Seizing Stores and Supplies |
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A Startling Visitor in the Full Uniform of the Hungarian Hussars |
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Local Hostility to the War |
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General Lee, the Handsomest Man of His Age I Ever Saw |
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Touching Relations between Lee and Longstreet |
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We March toward Gettysburg |
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Marching with the Stonewall Brigade |
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Firing Becomes Distinctly Audible |
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``The Position into Which the Enemy Was Driven Is Evidently a Strong One'' |
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Longstreet's Forebodings at Day's End |
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Up before Dawn on July 2d |
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Longstreet Whittles at a Conference |
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General Lee Watches Alone |
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Polkas Mixed with Gunfire |
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Limited Gains at Nightfall |
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Pickett to Bear the Brunt |
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Longstreet Wishes He Were Somewhere Else |
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The General Gets a Silver Flask |
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``This Has Been a Sad Day for Us, Colonel'' |
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`` `Uncle Robert' Will Get Us in to Washington Yet !'' |
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Taking Stock the Day After |
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General McLaws Eats General Longstreet's Supper |
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Planning to Return to England |
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A Slave Captures His Liberator |
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These Cavalry Fights Are Miserable Affairs |
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Longstreet Advises How to Cross the Lines |
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Warnings on Getting into Yankee Clutches |
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A Great Deal Depends upon Falling into the Hands of a Gentleman |
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Passing beyond the Confederate Lines |
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First Contact with Unionists |
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Handed Over to General Kelly |
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``The Only Federal Officers I Have Come in Contact with Were Gentlemen'' |
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To Philadelphia by That Admirable and Ingenious Yankee Notion, the Sleeping Car |
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244 | (5) |
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How the South Will Draw Men for Its Armies |
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How Supplies Will Continue to Flow |
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``I Never Can Believe That in the Nineteenth Century the Civilized World Will Be Condemned to Witness the Destruction of Such a Gallant Race'' |
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| Editor's Notes |
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