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INTRODUCTORY.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. Departure from Cork

CHAPTER II. Arrival at New York

CHAPTER III. St. Patrick’s day

CHAPTER IV. Streets and shops in New York

CHAPTER V. Off to the railway station

CHAPTER VI. A state dinner at the White House

CHAPTER VII. Barbers’ shops

CHAPTER VIII. New York Press

CHAPTER IX. Dinner at General Scott’s

CHAPTER X. Preparations for war at Charleston

CHAPTER XI. Scenes on board an American steamer

CHAPTER XII. Portsmouth

CHAPTER XIII. Sketches round Wilmington

CHAPTER XIV. Southern volunteers

CHAPTER XV. Slaves, their masters and mistresses

CHAPTER XVI. Charleston; the Market-place

CHAPTER XVII. Visit to a plantation

CHAPTER XVIII. Climate of the Southern States

CHAPTER XIX. Domestic negroes

CHAPTER XX. By railway to Savannah

CHAPTER XXI. The river at Savannah

CHAPTER XXII. Slave-pens

CHAPTER XXIII. Proclamation of war

CHAPTER XXIV. Mr. Wigfall on the Confederacy

CHAPTER XXV. The River Alabama

CHAPTER XXVI. Visit to Forts Gaines and Morgan

CHAPTER XXVII. Pensacola and Fort Pickens

CHAPTER XXVIII. Bitters before breakfast

CHAPTER XXIX. Judge Campbell

CHAPTER XXX. The first blow struck

CHAPTER XXXI. Carrying arms

CHAPTER XXXII. Up the Mississippi

CHAPTER XXXIII. Ride through the maize-fields

CHAPTER XXXIV. Negroes—Sugar-cane plantations

CHAPTER XXXV. War-rumours, and military movements

CHAPTER XXXVI. Visit to Mr. M‘Call’s plantation

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