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CHAPTER XXIX Mr. Trenholm and others Pulaski

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of Mr. Davis's Cabinet imprisoned in Fort hurried trip to New Orleans to engage coun-

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Study (?) law I get married General Daniel E. Sickles orders Mr. Trenholm's home returned to him I become a sel

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widower Yellow fever saves fated Evening Star

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CHAPTER XXX usual success — Better success — Charles Astor Bristed " Man a gregarious animal" — Drayton Hall — Discovery the phosphate rocks — Visit Philadelphia — Go on the New York Yacht Club cruise — General McClellan — General W. Hancock views

Try cotton-planting with the

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following the hounds

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the yacht race

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CHAPTER XXXI

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Hurried Receive a commission as captain in the Egyptian Army trip to Egypt with nineteen other ex-Union and Confederate Alexandria Call an Oriental bluff Cause small officers In panic in hotel by opening windows during the "kempsine" American officers in Presented to the Khedive uniform Letters of President Davis and General R. E. Khedive's army 266 Lee

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CHAPTER XXXII The Egyptian Army — Eunuchs important beings — Polyglots — Anecdote (from court gossip) about the two Schnieders — Adventuresses — The permanent Secretary — The bounding horse and cut His Highness — Napoleon gets me Napoleon — Did trouble about being too fresh with a Princess, a flower, and out a dainty lace handkerchief — The Khedive orders a wedding to amuse the Empress Eugenie — Divorce — Harems (pronounced in

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Egyptian Army splendidly drilled in manual of arms and tactics Sham battle American officers dine with the Effendina Marriage of the Feast of the Dosse Napoleon disgraces me Sailing on Offend Arabi Bey and am sent to Rosetta Nile Rosetta A deserted palace See ghosts the great canal Accept hospitality of an Armenian which turn out to be lepers

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