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

Diplomatic Corps moves to Versailles.--Journey there and back.--Life at Versailles.--German Princes.--Battle at Clamart.--Unburied Insurgents.--Bitterness of Class Hatred.--Its...

T. W. Sherman.--Contrabands.--Defenses of New Orleans.--Exchange of Prisoners.--Amenities in War.--Port Hudson.--Reconnoissance in Force.--The Fleet.--Our Left.--Assault of May...

Reign of Terror.--Family Quarrels.--The Alsacians, etc., claim German Nationality.--They leave Paris on our Passes.--Prisoners of Commune.--Priests and Nuns.--Fragments of Shell...

The Writer appointed Assistant Secretary of Legation to Paris. --Presented to the Emperor.--Court Balls.--Diplomatic Dress.--Opening of Corps Législatif.--Opening of Parliament....

Visit to Grant's Head-quarters.--His Anecdotes of Army Life.--Banks relieved.--Canby in Command.--Bailey at Mobile.--Death of Bailey.--Canby as a Civil Governor.--Confiscated Pr...

Balloons.--Large Number dispatched.--Small Number lost.--Worth. --Carrier-pigeons.--Their Failure.--Their Instincts.--_Times_ "Agony Column."--Correspondence.--Letters to Besieg...

Mob seize Hôtel de Ville.--"Thanksgiving" in Paris.--Prices of Food.--Paris Rats.--Menagerie Meat.--Horse-meat.--Eatable only as Mince.--Government Interference.--Sorties.--Are...

Germans forbidden to leave Paris.--Afterward expelled.--Large Number in Paris.--Americans in Europe.--Emperor's Staff an Incumbrance. --French Generals.--Their Rivalries.--False...

The National Guard.--Its Composition.--The American Ambulance.--Its Organization.--Its Success.--Dr. Swinburne, Chief Surgeon.--The Tent System.--Small Mortality.--Poor Germans...

Major-general Franklin.--Sabine Pass.--Collision at Sea.--March through Louisiana.--Rebel Correspondence.--"The Gypsy's Wassail." --Rebel Women.--Rebel Poetry.--A Skirmish.--Sal...

On the evening of the 1st of May, 1862, the leading transports anchored off the city. Butler sent for Williams, and ordered him to land at once. Williams, like the thorough sold...

The Commune.--Murder of French Generals.--The National Guard of Order.--It disbands.--The Reasons.--Flight of the Government to Versailles.--Thiers.--Attempts to reorganize Nati...

Admiral Farragut was anxious, after the capture of New Orleans, to proceed at once against Mobile. I heard him say that, in the panic excited by the capture of New Orleans, Mobi...

Belleville Demonstrates.--Radical Clubs.--Their Blasphemy and Violence. --Unreasonable Suspicion.--Outrages.--Diplomatic Corps.--Some of them leave Paris.--Meeting of the Corps....

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. Adam...

In February, 1862, the writer of the following pages, an officer on the staff of Brigadier-general Thomas Williams, was stationed at Hatteras. Of all forlorn stations to which t...

Mistakes.--Affair at Mansfield.--Peach Hill.--Freaks of the Imagination.--After Peach Hill.--General William Dwight.--Retreat to Pleasant Hill.--Pleasant Hill.--General Dick Tay...

Revolution of September 4th, 1870.--Paris _en Fête_.--Flight of the Empress.--Saved by Foreigners.--Escapes in an English Yacht. --Government of National Defense.--Trochu at its...

Burnside's Peace Mission.--Sent in by Bismarck.--Interview with Trochu.--The Sympathetic Tear.--Question of Revictualment.--Failure of Negotiations.--Point of Vanity.--Flags of...

Washburne appointed Minister.--Declaration of War.--Thiers opposes it.--The United States asked to protect Germans in France.--Fish's Instructions.--Assent of French Government...

Election in France.--Terms of Peace.--Germans enter Paris.--Their Martial Appearance.--American Apartments occupied.--Washburne remonstrates.--Attitude of Parisians.--The German...

Low Water.--The Fleet in Danger.--We fall back upon Alexandria. --Things look Gloomy.--Bailey builds a Dam in ten Days.--Saves the Fleet.--A Skirmish.--Smith defeats Polignac.--...

Reign of Terror.--Family Quarrels.--The Alsacians, etc., claim German Nationality.--They leave Paris on our Passes.--Prisoners of Commune.--Priests and Nuns.--Fragments of Shell...

Visit to Grant's Head-quarters.--His Anecdotes of Army Life.--Banks relieved.--Canby in Command.--Bailey at Mobile.--Death of Bailey.--Canby as a Civil Governor.--Confiscated Pr...

Diplomatic Corps moves to Versailles.--Journey there and back.--Life at Versailles.--German Princes.--Battle at Clamart.--Unburied Insurgents.--Bitterness of Class Hatred.--Its...

The Commune.--Murder of French Generals.--The National Guard of Order.--It disbands.--The Reasons.--Flight of the Government to Versailles.--Thiers.--Attempts to reorganize Nati...

The National Guard.--Its Composition.--The American Ambulance.--Its Organization.--Its Success.--Dr. Swinburne, Chief Surgeon.--The Tent System.--Small Mortality.--Poor Germans...

Burnside's Peace Mission.--Sent in by Bismarck.--Interview with Trochu.--The Sympathetic Tear.--Question of Revictualment.--Failure of Negotiations.--Point of Vanity.--Flags of...

The Writer appointed Assistant Secretary of Legation to Paris. --Presented to the Emperor.--Court Balls.--Diplomatic Dress.--Opening of Corps Législatif.--Opening of Parliament....

Low Water.--The Fleet in Danger.--We fall back upon Alexandria. --Things look Gloomy.--Bailey builds a Dam in ten Days.--Saves the Fleet.--A Skirmish.--Smith defeats Polignac.--...

Belleville Demonstrates.--Radical Clubs.--Their Blasphemy and Violence. --Unreasonable Suspicion.--Outrages.--Diplomatic Corps.--Some of them leave Paris.--Meeting of the Corps....

Mob seize Hôtel de Ville.--"Thanksgiving" in Paris.--Prices of Food.--Paris Rats.--Menagerie Meat.--Horse-meat.--Eatable only as Mince.--Government Interference.--Sorties.--Are...

Germans forbidden to leave Paris.--Afterward expelled.--Large Number in Paris.--Americans in Europe.--Emperor's Staff an Incumbrance. --French Generals.--Their Rivalries.--False...

Revolution of September 4th, 1870.--Paris _en Fête_.--Flight of the Empress.--Saved by Foreigners.--Escapes in an English Yacht. --Government of National Defense.--Trochu at its...

Washburne appointed Minister.--Declaration of War.--Thiers opposes it.--The United States asked to protect Germans in France.--Fish's Instructions.--Assent of French Government...

Election in France.--Terms of Peace.--Germans enter Paris.--Their Martial Appearance.--American Apartments occupied.--Washburne remonstrates.--Attitude of Parisians.--The German...

Mistakes.--Affair at Mansfield.--Peach Hill.--Freaks of the Imagination.--After Peach Hill.--General William Dwight.--Retreat to Pleasant Hill.--Pleasant Hill.--General Dick Tay...

Balloons.--Large Number dispatched.--Small Number lost.--Worth. --Carrier-pigeons.--Their Failure.--Their Instincts.--_Times_ "Agony Column."--Correspondence.--Letters to Besieg...

T. W. Sherman.--Contrabands.--Defenses of New Orleans.--Exchange of Prisoners.--Amenities in War.--Port Hudson.--Reconnoissance in Force.--The Fleet.--Our Left.--Assault of May...

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. Adam...

Major-general Franklin.--Sabine Pass.--Collision at Sea.--March through Louisiana.--Rebel Correspondence.--"The Gypsy's Wassail." --Rebel Women.--Rebel Poetry.--A Skirmish.--Sal...

New Orleans.--Custom-house.--Union Prisoners.--The Calaboose. --"Them Lincolnites."--The St. Charles.--"Grape-vine Telegraph." --New Orleans Shop-keepers.--Butler and Soulé.--Th...