US Civil War
At the outbreak of the American war, in common with many of my countrymen, I felt very indifferent as to which side might win; but if I had any bias, my sympathies were rather in favour of the North, on account of the dislike which an Englishman naturally feels at the idea of...
I had not time to visit the interior of the fort, but I saw the effect of the shell upon the outside. Those which fell in the sand did not burst. Only three men were wounded in...
2. Chapter 2I crossed over to Brownsville at 11.30, and dined with Colonels Luckett, Buchel, and Duff, at about one o'clock. As we were all colonels, and as every one called the other colon...
11. Chapter 11I had intended to have visited Mr Blake, an English gentleman for whom I had a letter, on his Combahee plantation, but Mr Robertson implored me to abandon this idea. Mr Robertso...
3. Chapter 3I walked ahead again with the Judge, who explained to me that he was a "senator," or member of the Upper House of Texas--"just like your House of Lords," he said. He gets $5 a-d...
16. Chapter 16Soon after passing through the toll-gate at the entrance of Gettysburg, we found that we had got into a heavy cross-fire; shells both Federal and Confederate passing over our he...
10. Chapter 10The woods on both sides of the road showed many signs of the conflicts which are of daily occurrence. Most of the houses by the roadside had been destroyed; but one plucky old l...
13. Chapter 13With regard to the black-flag-and-no-quarter agitation, he said people would talk a great deal, and even go into action determined to give no quarter; "but," he added, "I have y...
5. Chapter 5We passed through a well-wooded country--pines and post oaks--the road bad: crossed the river Trinity at 12 noon, and dined at the house of a disreputable looking individual cal...
17. Chapter 17I saw a most laughable spectacle this afternoon--viz., a negro dressed in full Yankee uniform, with a rifle at full cock, leading along a barefooted white man, with whom he had...
12. Chapter 12_13th June_ (Saturday).--Colonel Rice, aide-de-camp to General Beauregard, rode with me to "Secessionville" this morning. I was mounted on the horse which the General rode at Ma...
4. Chapter 4It was the custom for the outsiders to sit round the top of the carriage, with their legs dangling over (like mutes on a hearse returning from a funeral). This practice rendered...
1. Chapter 1At the outbreak of the American war, in common with many of my countrymen, I felt very indifferent as to which side might win; but if I had any bias, my sympathies were rather i...
14. Chapter 14_23d June_ (Tuesday).--Lawley and I went to inspect the site of Mr Mason's (the Southern Commissioner in London) once pretty house--a melancholy scene. It had been charmingly si...
7. Chapter 7The straggling of the Georgians was on the grandest scale conceivable; the men fell out by dozens, and seemed to suit their own convenience in that respect, without interference...
15. Chapter 15General Pickett commands one of the divisions in Longstreet's corps.[56] He wears his hair in long ringlets, and is altogether rather a desperate-looking character. He is the of...
9. Chapter 9[38] "LOSSES OF WILLIAM F. RICKS.--The Yankees did not treat us very badly as they returned from pursuing our men beyond Leighton (at least no more than we expected); they broke...
8. Chapter 8The garrisons of these forts complained of their being unhealthy, and I did not doubt the assertion. Before landing, we boarded two ironclad floating-batteries. The Confederate...
18. Chapter 18_12th July_ (Sunday).--The Pittsburg and Philadelphia Railway is, I believe, accounted one of the best in America, which did not prevent my spending eight hours last night off t...