TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Volume I | |
| INTRODUCTION (1835-1853) | PAGE 1 |
BOOK I.—FIRST EXPERIENCES IN AMERICA | |
| CHAPTER I.—New York and Westward Ho (1853-1854) | 11 |
| CHAPTER II.—With Kinsfolk in Illinois (1854-1855) | 28 |
| CHAPTER III.—Legal Experiments (1855-1856) | 36 |
| CHAPTER IV.—Through Politics to Journalism (1856-1857) | 48 |
| CHAPTER V.—Correspondent and School-Teacher (1857-1858) | 68 |
BOOK II.—IN CIVIL-WAR TIME: BULL RUN | |
| CHAPTER VI.—The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) | 89 |
| CHAPTER VII.—The Pike's Peak Gold Fever (1858-1859) | 98 |
| CHAPTER VIII.—At Cherry Creek (1859) | 115 |
| CHAPTER IX.—From the Rockies to the Middle West (1859-1860) | 127 |
| CHAPTER X.—With Lincoln at Springfield (1860-1861) | 140 |
| CHAPTER XI.—At Washington in Sumter Days (1861) | 153 |
| CHAPTER XII.—Formation of the Federal Army (1861) | 176 |
| CHAPTER XIII.—Blackburn's Ford and Bull Run (1861) | 183 |
BOOK III.—IN CIVIL-WAR TIME: SHILOH | |
| CHAPTER XIV.—Kentucky in the Summer and Fall of 1861 | 203 |
| CHAPTER XV.—The Occupation of Nashville (1862) | 218 |
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