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CONTENTS.

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
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• XIII. 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

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• 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

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• LXV. 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

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• C. 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