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Tables of Contents for The Fremantle Diary
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editor's Introduction
v
Preface
3
2
At the Mouth of the Rio Grande
5
17
I Fall in with H.M.'s Frigate Immortalite
Lynch Law Three Hours After Reaching America
Visits Across the Mexican Border
Cocktails in the Most Scientific Manner
At the Grand Fandango
The 3d Texas Infantry on Review
General Bee Hides His Pistols at a Dance
Mexican Girls Are a Badly Painted Lot
The Texan Rangers Sing ``God Save the Queen!'' -
IAm Now Comparatively Reconciled to Shaking Hands with Everyone
From Brownsville to San Antonio
22
19
Hiring a Judge for Assistant Mule Driver
Wild Hogs Breathing in My Face
Rat Ranches
Encountering General Magruder
A Theatrical Evening with the General
Mule Driving Is an Art
QA Violent Storm
Stopping at King's Ranch
Scorpions, Prairie Wolves and Rattlesnakes
Well-Cooked Polecat Is As Tasty As a Pig
How Texan Females Take Their Snuff
Fighting for a Mudhole
I Am Called a ``Right Good Companion for the Road''
From San Antonio to Houston
41
19
Sight-seeing in San Antonio
Auctioning off Some Excess Luggage
Confederate Officers Nearly Always Propose the Queen's Health
Off by Stage to Alleyton
Dodging Tobacco Juice
Pot Shots at Jack Rabbits
The Spitting Gets a Little Wild
Eighteen People in One Stagecoach
My First Experience with Texas Railroads
Houston Is Better Than I Expected
Getting to Know an ``Aristocratic Negro''
An Encounter with Sam Houston
Inspecting Galveston's Defenses
I Dance an American Cotillion
From Houston to Natchez
60
19
I Make a Present of My Evening Clothes
En Route on the Shreveport Stage
Wearing Boots to Bed
Northwestern Federal Troops Are Best
My Fellow Travelers Talk about Slavery
Brief Halt at Shreveport
Crayfishing with General Kirby Smith's Wife
Confusion at Monroe
The Yankees Close at Hand
By Sternwheeler to Harrisonburg
Sneaking along the Mississippi
Dodging Snakes, Alligators and Gunboats
I Get the Immense Luxury of a Bed to Myself
Natchez to Mobile
79
24
I Cross the Father of Waters
Trying to Reach Vicksburg
Dinner with Seven Virgins Seated All in a Row
The Yankees Cut the Railroad
``What on Earth Are You Doing in Jackson Just Now?''
Taken for a Spy
Rescued by an Irishman
How to Save a House from Yankee Raiders
At Joe Johnston's Headquarters
Honored with the Only Fork in General Johnston's Mess
The General Collects Wood for a Locomotive
An Engineer Shoots a Passenger
People Are Careful What They Say When a Bullet May Be the Reply
Mobile to Shelbyville
103
15
Dinner with General Maury
Amazing Reminiscences of ``Stonewall'' Jackson
Through Montgomery, Atlanta, and Chattanooga
At General Hardee's Headquarters
The General's Flirtations
General Polk Invites Me to Stay at Shelbyville
The Fury of Southern Women
I Call on General Bragg
In the South, an Aggrieved Husband Is Free to Shoot
``How Can You Subdue Such a Nation as This!''
The Stay at Shelbyville
118
19
One of the Most Extraordinary Characters I Ever Met
In a Baggage Car with General Bragg
Shooting a Deserter
I Meet General Joe Wheeler
How to Lead Confederate Soldiers
Watching General Bragg Get Baptized
General Polk's Close Call
Jealousy between the Armies
Reconnoitering the Federals
Confederate Cavalry Tactics
The Object of Killing a Yankee Is to Get His Boots
On to Charleston
137
24
Traveling with a Woman Soldier
At the Augusta Arsenal and Powder Plant
Arrival at Charleston
Inspecting Fort Sumter
Blockade Running
Missing a Dinner for Lack of Evening Clothes
The Proper Way to Capture Charleston
A Slave Auction Is Not Very Agreeable to an Englishman
Exciting New Submarine Inventions
I Call on General Beauregard's
The Real Reason Why Beauregard's Hair Has Turned Gray
Leaving Charleston
The Disadvantage of the Ladies' Car Is the Constant Liability of Being Turned Out of One's Place for a Female
Charleston to Richmond
161
15
Blockade Running As a Product of British Energy and Enterprise
Miss Sennec Is Too Pretty to Risk Collision with a Shell
Another Terrific Fight for a Train Seat
Through the Richmond Defenses
A Talk with Judah Benjamin
A Plea for British Recognition
Visiting Jefferson Davis
``Maine Will Probably Try to Join Canada''
Calling on the Secretary of War
More Executions and Reprisals
Many Richmond Papers Seem Scarcely More Respectable than the New York Ones
Richmond to Hagerstown
176
13
Chasing after Lee and Longstreet
Ruined Fences and Lonely Chimneys
I Am Impudent Enough to Win Supper from Two Good- Looking Female Citizens
Marching Through the Shenandoah Valley
Winchester, Shuttlecock of the Confederacy
Northern Vengeance on the Rampage
Irishmen Make Good Rebs
First Spoils from Pennsylvania
Gold Brings Results
Crossing the Potomac
A Sulky Reception in Maryland
Campaigning in Pennsylvania
189
12
With Longstreet at Last
Chambersburg Hears ``Dixie''
Taunts from the Natives
``Take Care, Madam, Hood's Boys Are Great at Storming Breastworks''
Seizing Stores and Supplies
A Startling Visitor in the Full Uniform of the Hungarian Hussars
Local Hostility to the War
General Lee, the Handsomest Man of His Age I Ever Saw
Touching Relations between Lee and Longstreet
Lee's Only Fault
We March toward Gettysburg
Gettysburg
201
20
Marching with the Stonewall Brigade
Firing Becomes Distinctly Audible
Yankees on the Run
``The Position into Which the Enemy Was Driven Is Evidently a Strong One''
Longstreet's Forebodings at Day's End
Up before Dawn on July 2d
Longstreet Whittles at a Conference
Another Attack
The Rebel Yell
General Lee Watches Alone
Polkas Mixed with Gunfire
Limited Gains at Nightfall
Plans for July 3d
Pickett to Bear the Brunt
A Furious Cannonade
Longstreet Wishes He Were Somewhere Else
The General Gets a Silver Flask
Lee Rallies the Troops
``This Has Been a Sad Day for Us, Colonel''
Desperate Moments
Lines Reorganized
`` `Uncle Robert' Will Get Us in to Washington Yet !''
Taking Stock the Day After
The Decision to Retreat
Back into Maryland
221
12
The Night Was Very Bad
False Alarms
Ewell Arrives to Confer
General McLaws Eats General Longstreet's Supper
Planning to Return to England
A Slave Captures His Liberator
Hagerstown Again
Panic in the Dark
These Cavalry Fights Are Miserable Affairs
Meeting Jeb Stuart
Longstreet Advises How to Cross the Lines
Farewell to Lee
Warnings on Getting into Yankee Clutches
A Great Deal Depends upon Falling into the Hands of a Gentleman
Hagerstown to New York
233
11
Passing beyond the Confederate Lines
First Contact with Unionists
Arrested on Suspicion
Handed Over to General Kelly
A Clean Bill of Health
``The Only Federal Officers I Have Come in Contact with Were Gentlemen''
By Stage to Johnstown
To Philadelphia by That Admirable and Ingenious Yankee Notion, the Sleeping Car
The Luxury of New York
Northern Overconfidence
Draft Riots
I Board the S.S. China
Postscript
244
5
Northern Illusions
How the South Will Draw Men for Its Armies
How Supplies Will Continue to Flow
Northern Indifference
Southern Will to Win
``I Never Can Believe That in the Nineteenth Century the Civilized World Will Be Condemned to Witness the Destruction of Such a Gallant Race''
Editor's Notes
249