My Diary: North and South (vol. 2 of 2)
CHAPTER XX.
A Crimean acquaintance--Personal abuse of myself--Close firing--A reconnaissance--Major-General Bell--The Prince de Joinville and his nephews--American estimate of Louis Napoleon --Arrest of members of the Maryland Legislature--Life at Washington--War cries--News from the Far West--Journey to the Western States--Along the Susquehannah and Juniata--Chicago-- Sport in the prairie--Arrested for shooting on Sunday--The town of Dwight--Return to Washington--Mr. Seward and myself 341