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CHAPTER XXIV

— Humiliated and sent to school — A — Call a commander " My man," and order him forward — Assault on Fort Harrison — General Lee appears — Repulsed — prove to be something of a on the

"Pride goeth before a fall"

war

realistic

college

battle-field

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sprinter

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CHAPTER XXV I

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become a passed midshipman Battery Semmes The Dutch Gap Canal Mortar pits and rifle pits' The lookout tower Trading with the enemy Pickett's famous division

finally

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— A from a monitor destroys my log hut — — An unexploded — General Lee spects battery — Costly result order to " give him a shot in minutes — Demonstration against City Point — Confederate ironclads badly hammered — "Savez" Read cuts boom across the river — A thunderous night 212 charges a rabbit

shell

Good marksmanship

shell

in-

of

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fifteen

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CHAPTER XXVI

— President Davis gives an im— Letter of Mrs. Jefferson Davis denying truth anecdote relating to President Buchanan, Mrs. — The Southern Joseph E. Johnston, and and

The Confederate "White House" promptu

lecture

on bridle

bits

of

herself

soldiers

dance, flirt, and marry, oblivious of the signs that the "debacle" draws near 220 girls

CHAPTER XXVII

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Ordered to accompany Mrs. Davis and party south No Pullman cars in those days President Davis bids his family good-bye Insolent deserters insult Mrs. Davis at Charlotte, North Carolina A Hebrew gentleman gives her shelter Midshipmen guarding the Confederacy's gold escort her to Abbeville, South Carolina President Davis and his Cabinet at Abbeville 228

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CHAPTER XXVIII

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President Davis departs from Abbeville I carry communication to General Fry at Augusta, Georgia United States troops occupy Abbeville. We bury the silver chests Paroled at Washington,

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— Accompany Mr. Trenholm to Columbia, where he — Mr. Wagner, of Fraser, Trenholm & Co., pays to avoid arrest in Charleston, and Mr. Trenholm arrested in Co— Mrs. King hides the gold lumbia — Placed in the common under the Federal commander's nose — General Gillmore, U.S.A., Georgia

buys a home

is

jail

treats

Mr. Trenholm magnanimously

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