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Ruse.--Occupation of Springfield.--The Situation.--Wilson Creek

Revisited.--Traces of the Battle.--Rumored Movements of the
Enemy.--Removal of General Fremont.--Danger of Attack.--A Night of
Excitement.--The Return to St. Louis.--Curiosities of the Scouting
Service.--An Arrest by Mistake.

CHAPTER X.
TWO MONTHS OF IDLENESS.
A Promise Fulfilled.--Capture of a Rebel Camp and Train.--Rebel
Sympathizers in St. Louis.--General Halleck and his Policy.--Refugees
from Rebeldom.--Story of the Sufferings of a Union Family.--Chivalry
in the Nineteenth Century.--The Army of the Southwest in
Motion.--Gun-Boats and Transports.--Capture of Fort Henry.--The
Effect in St. Louis.--Our Flag Advancing.

CHAPTER XI
ANOTHER CAMPAIGN IN MISSOURI.
From St. Louis to Rolla.--A Limited Outfit.--Missouri Roads in
Winter.--"Two Solitary Horsemen."--Restricted Accommodations in a
Slaveholder's House.--An Energetic Quartermaster.--General Sheridan
before he became Famous.--"Bagging Price."--A Defect in the
Bag.--Examining the Correspondence of a Rebel General.--What the
Rebels left at their Departure.

CHAPTER XII.
THE FLIGHT AND THE PURSUIT.
From Springfield to Pea Ridge.--Mark Tapley in Missouri.--"The

Arkansas Traveler."--Encountering the Rebel Army.--A Wonderful
Spring.--The Cantonment at Cross Hollows.--Game
Chickens.--Magruder vs. Breckinridge.--Rebel Generals in a
Controversy.--Its Result.--An Expedition to Huntsville.--Curiosities of
Rebel Currency.--Important Information.--A Long and Weary
March.--Disposition of Forces before the Battle.--Changing
Front.--What the Rebels lost by Ignorance.

CHAPTER XIII.
THE BATTLE OF PEA RIDGE.
The Rebels make their Attack.--Albert Pike and his Indians.--Scalping
Wounded Men.--Death of General McCulloch.--The Fighting at
Elkhorn Tavern.--Close of a Gloomy Day.--An Unpleasant
Night.--Vocal Sounds from a Mule's Throat.--Sleeping under
Disadvantages.--A Favorable Morning.--The Opposing Lines of
Battle.--A Severe Cannonade.--The Forest on Fire.--Wounded Men in
the Flames.--The Rebels in Retreat.--Movements of our Army.--A
Journey to St. Louis.

CHAPTER XIV.
UP THE TENNESSEE AND AT PITTSBURG LANDING.
At St. Louis.--Progress of our Arms in the Great Valley.--Cairo.--Its
Peculiarities and Attractions.--Its Commercial, Geographical, and
Sanitary Advantages.--Up the Tennessee.--Movements Preliminary to
the Great Battle.--The Rebels and their Plans.--Postponement of the
Attack.--Disadvantages of our Position.--The Beginning of the
Battle.--Results of the First Day.--Re-enforcements.--Disputes between
Officers of our two Armies.--Beauregard's Watering-place.

CHAPTER XV.
SHILOH AND THE SIEGE OF CORINTH.
The Error of the Rebels.--Story of a Surgeon.--Experience of a Rebel
Regiment.--Injury to the Rebel Army.--The Effect in our own
Lines.--Daring of a Color-Bearer.--A Brave Soldier.--A
Drummer-Boy's Experience.--Gallantry of an Artillery Surgeon.--A
Regiment Commanded by a Lieutenant.--Friend Meeting Friend and
Brother Meeting Brother in the Opposing Lines.--The Scene of the
Battle.--Fearful Traces of Musketry-Fire.--The Wounded.--The Labor
of the Sanitary Commission.--Humanity a Yankee Trick.--Besieging
Corinth.--A Cold-Water Battery.--Halleck and the
Journalists.--Occupation of Corinth.

CHAPTER XVI.
CAPTURE OF FORT PILLOW AND BATTLE OF MEMPHIS.
The Siege of Fort Pillow.--General Pope.--His Reputation for
Veracity.--Capture of the "Ten Thousand."--Naval Battle above Fort
Pillow.--The _John H. Dickey_.--Occupation of the Fort.--General
Forrest.--Strength of the Fortifications.--Their Location.--Randolph,
Tennessee.--Memphis and her Last Ditch.--Opening of the Naval
Combat.--Gallant Action of Colonel Ellet.--Fate of the Rebel
Fleet.--The People Viewing the Battle.--Their Conduct.

CHAPTER XVII.
IN MEMPHIS AND UNDER THE FLAG.
Jeff. Thompson and his Predictions.--A Cry of Indignation.--Memphis
Humiliated.--The Journalists in the Battle.--The Surrender.--A Fine
Point of Law and Honor.--Going on Shore.--An Enraged

Secessionist.--A Dangerous Enterprise.--Memphis and her
Antecedents.--Her Loyalty.--An Amusing Incident.--How the Natives
learned of the Capture of Fort Donelson.--The Last Ditch.--A
Farmer-Abolitionist.--Disloyalty among the Women.--"Blessings in
Disguise."--An American Mark Tapley.

CHAPTER XVIII.
SUPERVISING A REBEL JOURNAL.
The Press of Memphis.--Flight of The Appeal.--A False
Prediction.--The Argus becomes Loyal.--Order from General
Wallace.--Installed in Office.--Lecturing the Rebels.--"Trade follows
the Flag."--Abuses of Traffic.--Supplying the Rebels.--A Perilous
Adventure.--Passing the Rebel Lines.--Eluding Watchful Eyes.

CHAPTER XIX.
THE FIRST SIEGE OF VICKSBURG.
From Memphis to Vicksburg.--Running the Batteries.--Our Inability to
take Vicksburg by Assault.--Digging a Canal.--A Conversation with
Resident Secessionists.--Their Arguments pro and con, and the
Answers they Received.--A Curiosity of Legislation.--An Expedition
up the Yazoo.--Destruction of the Rebel Fleet.--The Arkansas Running
the Gauntlet.--A Spirited Encounter.--A Gallant Attempt.--Raising the
Siege.--Fate of the Arkansas.

CHAPTER XX.
THE MARCH THROUGH ARKANSAS.--THE SIEGE OF
CINCINNATI.

General Curtis's Army reaching Helena.--Its Wanderings.--The
Arkansas Navy.--Troops and their Supplies "miss Connection."--Rebel
Reports.--Memphis in Midsummer.--"A Journey due
North."--Chicago.--Bragg's Advance into Kentucky.--Kirby Smith in
Front of Cincinnati.--The City under Martial Law.--The Squirrel
Hunters.--War Correspondents in Comfortable Quarters.--Improvising
an Army.--Raising the Siege.--Bragg's Retreat.

CHAPTER XXI.
THE BATTLE OF CORINTH.
New Plans of the Rebels.--Their Design to Capture
Corinth.--Advancing to the Attack.--Strong Defenses.--A Magnificent
Charge.--Valor vs. Breast-Works.--The Repulse.--Retreat and
Pursuit.--The National Arms Triumphant.

CHAPTER XXII.
THE CAMPAIGN FROM CORINTH.
Changes of Commanders.--Preparations for the Aggressive.--Marching
from Corinth.--Talking with the People.--"You-uns and
We-uns."--Conservatism of a "Regular."--Loyalty and
Disloyalty.--Condition of the Rebel Army.--Foraging.--German
Theology for American Soldiers.--A Modest Landlord.--A Boy without
a Name.--The Freedmen's Bureau.--Employing Negroes.--Holly
Springs and its People.--An Argument for Secession.

CHAPTER XXIII.
GRANT'S OCCUPATION OF MISSISSIPPI.

The Slavery Question.--A Generous Offer.--A Journalist's
Modesty.--Hopes of the Mississippians at the Beginning of the
War.--Visiting an Editress.--Literature under Difficulties.--Jacob
Thompson and his Correspondence.--Plans for the Capture of
Vicksburg.--Movements of General Sherman.--The Raid upon Holly
Springs.--Forewarned, but not Forearmed.--A Gallant Fight.

CHAPTER XXIV.
THE BATTLE OF CHICKASAW BAYOU.
Leaving Memphis.--Down the Great