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24 uation. I reveal my Identity. Astonishment and Joy of my Lover. Preparations for our Wedding. A very quiet Affair Proposed. The Wedding. A short Honeymoon. Departure of my Husband for the Front. My Apprehensions for his Health. My Apprehensions justified in the News of his Death in a Federal Hospital in Chatanooga. Once more a Widow 326

Altered Circumstances. The Result of two Years and a half Experience in Warfare. The Difference between the Emotions of a raw Recruit and a Veteran. Difficulties in the Way of deciding what Course it was best to pursue for the Future. I resolve to go to Richmond in Search of active Employment of some Kind. The Military Situation in the Autumn of 1863. Concentration of the Armies at Richmond and Chat anooga. Richmond safe from Capture. The Results of the Battle of Chickamauga. Rosecrans penned up in Chatanooga by Bragg. The Pinch of the Fight Approaching. Hopes of foreign Intervention. An apparently encouraging Condition of Affairs. I go to Richmond, and have Interviews with President Davis and General Winder. I am furnished by the Latter with a Letter of Recommendation, and start on a grand Tour through the Confederacy. Arrival at Mobile, and Meeting with old Army Friends 339

I receive a mysterious Note, requesting me to meet the Writer. I go to the appointed Place, and find an Officer of the Secret Service Corps, who wants me to go through the Lines with Despatches. I accept the Commission, and the next Day go to Meridian for the Purpose of com pleting my Arrangement and receiving my Instructions. A Visit to General Ferguson's Headquarters. Final Instructions from the Gen eral, who presents me with a Pistol. I start for the Federal Lines, and ride all Night and all the next Day. A rough and toilsome Journey. I spend the Night in a Negro's Cabin. Off again at three o'clock in the Morning with an old Negro Man for a Guide. We reach the Neigh borhood of the Federal Pickets, and I send my Guide back. I bury my Pistol in a Church. I am halted by a Picket-guard, and am taken to Moscow. A Cross-examination by the Colonel in Command. Satisfactory Result for Myself. On the Train for Memphis. Insulting Remarks from the Soldiers. A Major interferes for my Protection. Off for General Washburn's Headquarters 348

My Friend, the Lieutenant, concludes that he will make himself better acquainted with me. Indiscreet Confidences. Some of the Traits of