Fifties--Religious Meetings--The
Growth of the Settlement--Vasa Township Organized--A Lutheran Church
Established--My Wedding--Speculation--The Crisis of 1857--Study of
Law in Red Wing--I am admitted to the Bar and elected County
Auditor--Politics in 1860--War is Imminent.

CHAPTER V.

The Beginning of the Civil War--The Scandinavians taking part in
it--Appeal in _Hemlandet_ to the Scandinavians of Minnesota--Company D.
Organized--The Expressions of the Press--The Departure--The March over
the Cumberland Mountains--The Fate of the Third Regiment.

CHAPTER VI.

Events of 1863--The Siege of Vicksburg--Anecdotes about Gens. Logan,
Stevenson and Grant--Little Rock Captured--Recruiting at Fort
Snelling--The engagement at Fitzhugh's Woods--Pine Bluff--Winter
Quarters at Duvall's Bluff--Death of Lincoln--Close of the War--The
Third Regiment Disbanded.

CHAPTER VII.

Reconstruction in the South--Third Regiment Mustered Out--The Farewell
Order--Sacrifices and Costs of the War.

CHAPTER VIII.

My Reason for Taking Part in the Civil War--The Dignity of Labor--The
Firm Mattson & Webster--_Svenska Amerikanaren_, its Program and
Reception--The State Emigration Bureau of Minnesota--Its Aim, Plan and
Work.

CHAPTER IX.

Visit to Sweden in 1868-1869--The Object of my Journey--Experiences
and Observations During the Same--Difference Between American
and Swedish Customs--My Birth-place--Arrival and Visit There--Visit
to Christianstad--Visit to Stockholm--The Swedish Parliament--My
Return to America--Reflections on and Impressions of the Condition
of the Bureaucracy of Sweden.

CHAPTER X.

The Importance of the Scandinavian Element--A Swede Elected Secretary of
State in Minnesota--False Rumors of Indian Depredations--The Northern
Pacific Railroad is Built--Trip to Philadelphia--The National Convention
at Indianapolis--Delegation to Washington--A Swedish Colony in
Mississippi Moved to Minnesota--The Second Voyage to Europe.

CHAPTER XI.

In Sweden Again--Reception at My Old Home--Visit to Northern
Sweden--Field Maneuvers in Sweden--The Opening of Parliament--In
Norway--Visit in Stockholm--Royal Palaces--The Goeta Canal--A Trip to
Finland and Russia--King Oscar II.--A Trip to Dalarne in the Winter.

CHAPTER XII.

Visit in Minnesota and Philadelphia--Conversation with Jay Cooke--The
Crisis of 1873--Negotiations in Holland--Draining of a Lake in
Skane--Icelandic Colony in Manitoba--Return to America.

CHAPTER XIII.