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Run. The
Day before Manassas. Waiting!
CHAPTER XV.
--After Manassas 122-128

How Rumors came. Jubilation and Revulsion. Anxiety for News. The
Decisive Charge. An Austrian View. The President's Return. His
Speech to the People. The First Train of Wounded. Sorrow and
Consolation. How Women Worked. Material and Moral Results of
Manassas. Spoils and Overconfidence. Singular Errors in Public Mind.
General Belief in Advance. The Siesta and its Dreams.
CHAPTER XVI.
--The Spawn of Lethargy 129-138
Reaction of Sentiment. Conflicting Ideas about Inaction. Popular Wish
for Aggressive War. Sentiment settles to Fact. Mr. Davis' Attitude to
Johnston and Beauregard. After-battle Confusion. Strategic Reasons.
Inaction breeds grave Discontent. Effect on the Army. Sober Second
Thought. Government Use of the Lull. Bombast and Sense. A Glance
North. The Western Outlook. John B. Floyd.
CHAPTER XVII.
--From Court to Camp 139-146
A Winter's Inaction and Effects. Comforts and Homesickness. Unseen
Foes and Their Victory. Care and Cleanliness. Nostalgia. Camp
Morality. Record of the "Cracks". In a Maryland Mess. Mud and
Memories. Has History a Parallel? Old Cavaliers and New.
CHAPTER XVIII.
--Society at the Capital 147-157
Richmond Overflowing. Variety of Visitors. Gradual Growth of Gayety.
"Danceable Teas". Amateur Benefits. "Youth at the Helm". A Society
Woman's View. Social Theories and Practice. Virginian Hospitality.
Quieter Sociability. The Presidential Household. Mr. and Mrs. Davis.
Formal Levees. Social Ethics. Dissipation. Disappointing Solons.

CHAPTER XIX.
--Days of Depression 158-165
Reverses on All Lines. Zollicoffer's Death. Mr. Benjamin, Secretary of
War. Transportation Dangers. The Tennessee River Forts. Forrest, and
Morgan. Gloom follows Nashville's Fall. Government Blamed by
People. The Permanent Government. Mr. Davis' Typical Inaugural. Its
Effect and Its Sequence. Cabinet Changes.
CHAPTER XX.
--From Shiloh to New Orleans 166-173
Sunshine and Shadow. Clouds gather in the West. Island No. 10. Shiloh.
Illustrative Valor. Deep Depression. Was Johnston hounded to His
Death? Fall of New Orleans. Odd Situation of Her Captors. Butler in
Command. His Place in Southern Opinion. Strategic Results. Popular
Discontent. Effect on the Fighters. Butler and the Women. Louisiana
Soldiers.
CHAPTER XXI.
--The Conscription and Its Consequences 174-188
The "More Men!" cry. Passage of the Act. State Troops Turned Over.
Appointment of Generals. Longings for Home. Exemptions and
"Details". The Substitute Law. Mr. Davis' Wisdom Vindicated.
Governor Joe Brown kicks. State Traits of the Conscripts. Kentucky's
Attitude. Tennessee's "Buffaloes". The "Union Feeling" Fallacy.
Conscript Camps. Morals of the "New Ish". Food and Money Scarcer.
Constancy of the Soldiers. The Extension Law. Repeal of the Substitute
Act. Home-Guards. "The Cradle and the Grave."
CHAPTER XXII.
--Waiting the Ordeal by Combat 189-197

The North Prepares a New "On to Richmond.". Joe Johnston's Strategy.
From Manassas to Richmond. Magruder's Lively Tactics. The
Defenders Come. Scenes of the March Through. A Young Veteran.
Public Feeling. Williamsburg's Echo. The Army of Specters. Ready!
Drewry's Bluff. The Geese Fly South. Stern Resolve!
CHAPTER XXIII.
--Around Richmond 198-206
Seven Pines. War at the Very Gates. Harrowing Scenes. Woman's
Heroism. Crowded Hospitals. A Lull. Jackson's Meteor Campaign.
Ashby Dead! The Week of Blood. Southern Estimate of McClellan.
What "Might Have Been". Richmond Under Ordeal. "The Battle
Rainbow". Sad Sequelæ. Real Sisters of Mercy. Beautiful
Self-sacrifice.
CHAPTER XXIV.
--Echoes of Seven Days, North and South 207-214
Confederates Hopeful, but Not Overconfident. The Cost to the North.
McClellan Sacrificed. General Pope and His Methods. He "Finds"
Jackson at Cedar Mountain. A Glance Trans-Allegheny.
Well-Conceived Federal Programme. General Bragg's Unpopularity.
To the Ohio and Back. Would-be Critics. Flashes illumine the Clouds.
Kentucky Misrepresented.
CHAPTER XXV.
--The War in the West 215-222
A Gloomy Outlook. Lone Jack. "The Butcher, McNeil". Corinth and
Murfreesboro. Their Bloody Cost. The Cry Wrung from the People. Mr.
Davis stands Firm. Johnston relieves Bragg. The Emancipation
Proclamation. Magruder's Galveston Amphiboid. The Atlantic
Seaboard. Popular Estimate of the Status. Hope for the New Year.

CHAPTER XXVI.
--The Failure of Finance 223-229
Was Cotton really King? How it Might have been Made So.
Government's Policy. Comparison with Northern Finance. Why the
South believed in her Advantage. How the North buoyed up her Credit.
Contractors and Bondholders. Feeling at the South on the Money
Question. Supply and Demand for Paper. Distrust creeps In. Rapid
Depreciation.
CHAPTER XXVII.
--Dollars, Cents and Less 230-240
Results of Inflation. Comparative Cost of Living North and South. How
Army and Officials were Paid. Suffering enhances Distrust. Barter
Currency. Speculation's Vultures. The Auction Craze. Hoarding
Supplies. Gambling. Richmond Faro-banks. Men met There. Death of
Confederate Credit. The President and Secretary held to Account.
Nothing but Mismanagement.
CHAPTER XXVIII--Across
the Potomac and Back 241-250
Precedents of the First Maryland Campaign. Jackson strikes Pope.
Second Manassas. Why was Victory not Pushed? The People demand
Aggressive Warfare. Over the River. Harper's Ferry falls. Elation at the
South. Rosy Prophecies. Sharpsburg. The River Recrossed. Gloom in
Richmond. Fredericksburg and its Effect on the People. Why on Pursuit?
Hooker replaces Burnside.