tough Fighting. How Beauregard and Johnston rallied their Men. The Contest for the Possession of the Plateau. Bee and Bartow Killed.
Arrival of Kirby Smith with Re-enforcements. The Victory Won.
Application for Promotion. Return to Richmond, 95
CHAPTER VIII.
AFTER THE BATTLE.
Erroneous Ideas about the War. Some of the Effects of the Battle of Bull Run. The Victory not in all Respects a Benefit to the Cause of the Confederacy. Undue Elation of Soldiers and Civilians. Rich mond Demoralized. A Quarrel with a drunken Officer. An Insult Resented. I leave Richmond. Prospect of another Battle. Cutting a Dash in Leesburg. A little Love Affair. Stern Parents. A clan destine Meeting. Love's young Dream. Disappointed Affections. In front of the Enemy once More. A Battle expected to come off. . 107
CHAPTER IX.
THE BATTLE OF BALL'S BLUFF.
An Appetite for Fighting. The Sensations of the Battle-field. My sec ond Battle. The Conflict at Ball's Bluff. My Arrival at General Evans's Headquarters. Meeting an old Acquaintance. Hospitalities of the Camp. The Morning of the Battle. Commencement of the Fight. A fierce Struggle. In Charge of a Company. A suspicious Story. Bob figures as a Combatant. Rout of the Enemy. The Fed erals driven over the Bluff into the River. I capture some Prisoners. A heart-rending Spectacle. Escape of Colonel Devens, of the Fif teenth Massachusetts Regiment, by swimming across the River. Sink ing of the Boats with the wounded Federals in Them. Night, and the End of the Battle 115
CHAPTER X.
FIRST EXPERIENCES AS A SPY.
Reaction after the Excitements of a Battle. The Necessity for mental and bodily Occupation. I form a new Project. War as we imagine it, and as it Is. Fighting not the only Thing to be Done. The Dreams of Youth, and the Realities of Experience. The Secret of Success. The Difficulties which the Confederate Commanders experienced in obtain ing Information of the Movements of the Enemy. What a Woman can do that a Man Cannot. A Visit to Mrs. Tyree. The only Way of keeping a Secret. I assume the Garments of my own Sex again as a Disguise. Getting across the Potomac at Night. Asleep in a Wheat- btack. A suspicious Farmer. A Friend in Need. Maryland Hospitality. Off for Washington 126
CHAPTER XI.
IN WASHINGTON.
Inside the Enemy's Lines. Arrival at the Federal Capital. Renewing an Acquaintance with an old Friend. What I found out by a judicious
