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CONTENTS

 

CHAPTER I.

 

Childhood—"Billy Bowlegs"—The Choctaws—Blowing up and burning of the steamboat Princess—Charloe and Katish—Throwing the lasso—Buck-jumpers

 

CHAPTER II.

— The home of a Louisiana aristocrat — Hospitality — The sugar-house — Appointed a midshipman — The only Southern man who could not whip ten Yankees — Religious mania — Fortress Monroe — Mexican pulque

Unlucky in love and lengthy

visits

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Show The habit of command Annapolis "Old Ironsides" remarkable leniency toward the midshipman's hereditary eneThe "Brood of the mies, the commandant and lieutenants Other heroes "Bill Pip," our first hero Constitution" Secession The bilged Skating on thin ice

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Navy

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disguise Captain Passing through the Union and ConfedMaynadier, U.S.A. Senator Wigfall and President Andrew Johnson erate lines President Jefferson Davis and Judah Montgomery, Alabama Tender services and sword to the Confederacy P. Benjamin The "Marseillaise" Declined with thanks of the United States

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CHAPTER V Arrive in

New Orleans — Brother Harry killed next morning in a duel

— Home-coming

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Baton Rouge

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Captain Booth, late U.S.A., finds use for me Lonely Volunteers " Give them a little more grape, Captain Bragg " Pensacola

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sloop-of-war

McRae

arrives at

VII

— Receive warrant —

Baton Rouge

Fail to get through as a midshipman and ordered to the McRae Attack on Federal fleet at the Head of the Passes the blockade

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