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Surry of Eagle's-nest, or, The memoirs of a staff-officer serving in Virginia | ||
CONTENTS.
I. The Surrys 9
II. In which the Writer omits a Number of Things 12
III. Hot Blood 13
IV. A Pair of Eyes 16
V. What I saw on the Brook Road 18
VI. The Vendetta 20
VII. My Commission 26
VIII. The Lonely House 28
IX. The Woman in White 30
X. The Mysteries of the Wilderness 33
XI. The Package 37
XII. How I encountered a Traveller, and of what we conversed
38XIII. The Owner of the Handkerchief 42
XIV. A Follower of Calhoun 45
XV. Pygmalion 47
XVI. The Guest who did not come 52
XVII. The “Last Ride together,” 55
XVIII. The Algerine 60
XIX. The Statue speaks 68
XX. The Ruined Church and the Stranger 74
XXI. On Review 79
XXII. I visit Colonel “Jeb. Stuart” 82
XXIII. A Moonlight Ride with Stuart 85
XXIV. John Brown and his Bull-dog 90
XXV. The Raid of the Bee-gum 93
XXVI. My First Sight of the Blue-coats 95
XXVII. The Enchantments of Bogy 99
XXVIII. The Council of War 106
XXIX. The Cavalry Picket 107
XXX. The Stone House at Manassas 109
XXXI. What took place at the Stone House 114
XXXII. Beauregard 117
XXXIII. The Lines 119
XXXIV. The Heroine of Manassas 120
XXXV. I return the Package 123
XXXVI. A Ride in the Dog-days 127
XXXVII. The Flank Movement 129
XXXVIII. Two Brothers 130
XXXIX. Elm Cottage and its Inmates 141
XL. A Chapter entirely without Incident 146
XLI. The Dispatch from Richmond 148
XLII. Ashby 155
XLIII. “I will never leave Winchester without a Fight!—never, never!” 159
XLIV. A Feat of Housemanship 162
XLV. The “Foot Cavaley” 165
XLVI. The Value of Ten Minutes 167
XLVII. The Officer whom Ashby had wounded 173
XLVIII. The Death-Trenches 176
XLIX. The Second Retreat 179
L. The Chase after Milroy 181
LI. The Advance 184
LII. A Night Adventure 187
LIII. Jackson returning to “his Property” 190
LIV. A Little Idea of Captain Bogy's 193
LV. The Trap 197
LVI. Falling Back 202
LVII. Ashby's White Horse 203
LVIII. I am Captured 206
LIX. I make the Acquaintance of Sir Percy Wyndham 209
LX. How Ashby was not “bagged” by Sir Percy 212
LXI. Ashby among his Men 214
LXII. “Virginians, Charge!” 218
LXIII. Out off 223
LXIV. Fremont checked 226
viiLXV. Exeunt Omnes 228
LXVI. In which the Writer of these Memoirs is taken to Task 233
LXVII. Lee strikes 234
LXVIII. Past the Rapidan 242
LXIX. An Adventure of Stuart's 243
LXX. The Pursuit 249
LXXI. The House in the Wildeeness and its Occupants 253
LXXII. Arcades Ambo 254
LXXIII. Mordaunt's Secret 260
LXXIV. The Snake scotched 266
LXXV. The Night Attack 269
LXXVI. An Old Acquaintance 272
LXXVII. What I found in the Saddle Pockets of my captured Horse 275
LXXVIII. A Glimpse of General Early 276
LXXIX. Stuart takes his Revenge 280
LXXX. Flanking Pope 284
LXXXI. I chase and come up with a Federal Officer 286
LXXXII. Violet Grafton's Secret 290
LXXXIII. I am thrown into Confusion by Miss Henrietta 293
LXXXIV. Surrounded 297
LXXXV. The Single Combat 302
LXXXVI. In which the Writer omits a Description of the Second Battle of Manassas 306
LXXXVII. The Young Signal Officer 309
LXXXVIII. One of Stuart's “Tight Places” 312
LXXXIX. In which the Writer gets over a great deal of Ground 316
XC. Hampton charges and I “go under” 318
XCI. I exchange Views with General McClellan 323
XCII. What followed 327
XCIII. Where and with whom I supped on the Night of the Battle of Sharpsburg 330
XCIV. Falling back with Stuart 337
XCV. Which contains a valuable Moral Reflection 341
XCVI. A Dream of Autumn 343
XCVII. The Awaking 345
XCVIII. How Pelham fought his Horse Artillery 347
XCIX. I deliver up Harry Saltoun's Watch, and make a Discovery 352
viiiC. Achmed 354
CI. In a Carriage Window 353
CII. From the Hills of the Massaponnax 362
CIII. “It is well this is so terrible—we would grow too fond of it!” 364
CIV. Pelham and Jean 368
CV. Recollections of “Camp No-Camp” 373
CVI. I go with Stuart to Culpepper 381
CVII. The Last Charge of Pelham 384
CVIII. The Spring Flowers 388
CIX. The Adversaries 391
CX. The Night-hawks flown 392
CXI. Hours at “Camp Pelham.” 394
CXII. The Summons 397
CXIII. The Defiance 399
CXIV. Mordaunt's Motive 405
CXV. Showing that, though you know when you set out, you don't know when you will arrive 410
CXVI. The Woes of Baskerville 414
CXVII. I make the Acquaintance of a Famous Character 417
CXVIII. Which solves the whole Mystery 423
CXIX. In which May Beverley passes away from this History 427
CXX. Diabolism 428
CXXI. Where Mordaunt had been, and the Result of his Journey 436
CXXII. Boots and Saddles 440
CXXIII. In which Bogy, Moonshine, and Snakebug all “go under” 443
CXXIV. The Last of Farley 447
CXXV. The Abduction 449
CXXVI. Hooker in his men 454
CXXVII. The Wing of the Death-Angel 456
CXXVIII. Under the Shades of the Wilderness 460
CXXIX. The Return of Achmed 464
CXXX. Love and Death 467
CXXXI. The Last Greeting between Stuart and Jackson 470
CXXXII. In a Dream 479
Surry of Eagle's-nest, or, The memoirs of a staff-officer serving in Virginia | ||