g.--
Grant thunders on.--Plan of servile insurrection. 303

CHAPTER XXVII.

Vicksburg refuses to surrender to Grant.--Spiritualism at
the White House.--Lee is pushing a little northward.--It is
said Grant has lost 40,000 men.--He is still pounding
Vicksburg.--Petty military organizations.--Mr. Randolph
busy.--Foolish passport rules.--Great battle imminent, but
speculation may defeat both sides.--Early's victory.--We
have only supplies of corn from day to day.--Chambersburg
struck.--Col. Whiting complains of blockade-running at
Wilmington.--False alarm.--Grant still before Vicksburg. 338

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Enemy threatening Richmond.--The city is safe.--Battle of
Gettysburg.--Great excitement.--Yankees in great trouble.--
Alas! Vicksburg has fallen.--President is sick.--Grant
marching against Johnston at Jackson.--Fighting at that
place.--Yankees repulsed at Charleston.--Lee and Meade
facing each other.--Pemberton surrenders his whole army.--
Fall of Port Hudson.--Second class conscripts called for.--
Lee has got back across the Potomac.--Lincoln getting
fresh troops.--Lee writes that he cannot be responsible if
the soldiers fail for want of food.--Rumors of Grant coming
East.--Pemberton in bad odor.--Hon. W. L. Yancey is dead. 366

VOLUME II.

CHAPTER XXIX.

Some desertion.--Lee falling back.--Men still foolishly look
for foreign aid.--Speculators swarming.--God helps me
to-day.--Conscripts.--Memminger shipping gold to Europe.--
Our women and children making straw bonnets.--Attack on
Charleston.--Robert Tyler as a financier.--Enemy throw large
shells into Charleston, five and a half miles.--Diabolical
scheme.--Gen. Lee has returned to the army. 3

CHAPTER XXX.

Situation at Wilmington.--Situation at Charleston.--Lincoln
thinks there is hope of our submission.--Market prices.--
Ammunition turned over to the enemy at Vicksburg.--Attack
on Sumter.--Stringent conscription order.--Disaffection in
North Carolina.--Victory announced by Gen. Bragg.--Peril of
Gen. Rosecrans.--Surrender of Cumberland Gap.--Rosecrans
fortifying Chattanooga.--Mr. Seward on flag of truce boat.--
Burnside evacuating East Tennessee.--The trans-Mississippi
army.--Meade sending troops to Rosecrans.--Pemberton in
Richmond.--A suggestion concerni