rvice.--Only 6000 conscripts from East
Tennessee.--How seven were paroled by one.--This is to be
the crisis campaign.--Lee announces the campaign open. 265

CHAPTER XXV.

Symptoms of bread riots.--Lee forming depots of provisions
near the Rappahannock.--Beauregard ready to defend
Charleston.--He has rebuffed the enemy severely.--French and
British advancing money on cotton.--The Yankees can beat us
in bargaining.--Gen. Lee anxious for new supplies.--The
President appeals to the people to raise food for man and
beast.--Federal and Confederate troops serenading each other
on the Rappahannock.--Cobbler's wages $3000 per annum.--
Wrangling in the Indian country.--Only 700 conscripts per
month from Virginia.--Longstreet at Suffolk.--The
President's well eye said to be failing.--A
"reconnoissance!"--We are planting much grain.--Picking up
pins.--Beautiful season.--Gen. Johnston in Tennessee.--
Longstreet's successes in that State.--Lee complains that
his army is not fed.--We fear for Vicksburg now.--Enemy
giving up plunder in Mississippi.--Beauregard is busy at
Charleston.--Gen. Marshall, of Kentucky, fails to get
stock and hogs.--Gen. Lee calls for Longstreet's corps.--
The enemy demonstrating on the Rappahannock. 284

CHAPTER XXVI.

Lee snuffs a battle in the breeze.--Hooker's army supposed
to be 100,000 men.--Lee's perhaps 55,000 efficient.--I am
planting potatoes.--Part of Longstreet's army gone up.--
Enemy makes a raid.--Great victory at Chancellorville.--
Hot weather.--Our poor wounded coming in streams, in
ambulances and on foot.--Hooker has lost the game.--
Message from the enemy.--They ask of Lee permission to bury
their dead.--Granted, of course.--Hooker fortifying.--Food
getting scarce again.--Gen. Lee's thanks to the army.--
Crowds of prisoners coming in.--Lieut.-Gen. Jackson dead.--
Hooker's raiders "hooked" a great many horses.--Enemy
demand 500,000 more men.--Beauregard complains that so many
of his troops are taken to Mississippi.--Enemy at Jackson,
Miss.--Strawberries.--R. Tyler.--My cherries are coming on
finely.--Ewell and Hill appointed lieutenant-generals.--
President seems to doubt Beauregard's veracity.--Hon.
D. M. Lewis cuts his wheat to-morrow, May 28th.--Johnston
says our troops are in fine spirits around Vicksbur