Camp, Court And Siege - A Narrative Of Personal Adventure And Observation During Two Wars: 1861-1865; 1870-1871

CAMP COURT AND SIEGE - A NARRATIVE OF PERSONAL ADVENTURE AND OBSERVATION DURING TWO WARS 1861-1865 1870-1871 BY WICKIIAM HOFFMAN ASSISTANT ADJ.-GEN. - CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Hatteras. Black Drink. Fortress Monroe. General Butler. Small-pox. LIsle des Chats. Lightning. Farragut. Troops land. Surrender of Forts Page 11 CHAPTER IL New Orleans. Custom-house. Union Prisoners. The Calaboose. Them Lincolnites. The St. Charles. Grape-vine Telegraph. New Orleans Shop-keepers. Butler and Soule. The Fourth Wisconsin. A New Orleans Mob. Yellow Fever 23 CHAPTER HI. Vicksburg. River on Fire. Baton Rouge. Start again for Vicks- burg. The Hartford. The Canal. Farragut. Captain Craven. The Arkansas. Major Boardman. The Arkansas runs the GauntletMalaria -35 CHAPTER IV. Sickness. Battle of Baton Rouge. Death of Williams.Fix Bayonets Thomas Williams. His Body. General T. W. Sherman. Butler relieved. General Orders, No. 10. Mr. Adams and Lord Palmerston. Butlers Style 47 CONTENTS. CHAPTER V. T. W. Sherman. Contrabands. Defenses of New Orleans. Ex- change of Prisoners. Amenities in War. Port Hudson. Reconnoissance in Force. The Fleet. Our Left. Assault of May 27th. Sherman wounded. Port Hudson surrenders Page 59 CHAPTER VI. Major-general Franklin. Sabine Pass. Collision at Sea. March through Louisiana. Rebel Correspondence. The Gypsys Was- sail. Rebel Women. Rebel Poetry. A Skirmish. Salt Island. Winter Climate. Bankss Capua. MajorJoseph Bailey CHAPTER VII. Mistakes. Affair at Mansfield. Peach Hill. Freaks of the Imagi- nation. After Peach Hill. General William Dwight. Retreat to Pleasant Hill. Pleasant Hill. General Dick Taylor. Taylor and the King of Denmark. An Incident 87 CHAPTER VIIL Low Water. The Fleetin Danger. We fall back upon Alexandria. Things look Gloomy. Bailey builds a Dam in ten Days. Saves the Fleet. A Skirmish. Smith defeats Polignac. Unpopularity of Foreign Officers. A Novel Bridge. Leave of Absence. A Year in Virginia. Am ordered again to New Orleans 98 CHAPTER IX. Visit to Grants Head-quarters. His Anecdotes of Army Life. Banks relieved. Canby in Command. Bailey at Mobile. Death of Bailey. Canby as a Civil Governor. Confiscated Property. Pro- poses to rebuild Levees. Is stopped by Sheridan. Canby appeals. 74 CONTENTS. Is sustained, but too late. Levees destroyed by Floods. Conflict of Jurisdiction. Action of President Johnson. Sheridan abolishes Canbys Provost Marshals Department. Canby asks to be recalled. Is ordered to Washington. To Galveston. To Richmond. To Charleston. Is murdered by the Modocs. His Character. Page 105 CHAPTER X. The Writer appointed Assistant Secretary of Legation to Paris. Pre- sented to the Emperor. Court Balls. Diplomatic Dress. Opening of Corps Legislatif. Opening of Parliament. King of the Belgians. Emperor of Austria. King of Prussia. Queen Augusta. Em- peror Alexander. Attempt to assassinate him. Ball at Russian p. Resignation of General Dix 119 CHAPTER XL Washburne appointed Minister. Declaration of War. Thiers opposes it. The United States asked to protect Germans in France. Fishs Instructions. Assent of French Government given. Paris in War-paint. The Emperor opposed to War. Not a Free Agent. His Entourage. Marshal Le Bceuf 134 CHAPTER XII. Germans forbidden to leave Paris. Afterward expelled. Large Number in Paris. Americans in Europe. Emperors Staff an In- cumbrance. French Generals. Their Rivalries. FalseNews from the Front. Effect inParis. Reaction. Expulsion of Germans. Sad Scenes. Washburnes Action...