Once more at Bloomsbury—Surprising fidelity of negroes—Stories of escape—Federal soldiers who plundered old estates—Mulberry partly in ruins—Old Colonel Chesnut last of the grand seigniors—Two classes of sufferers—A wedding and a funeral—Blood not shed in vain 384 INDEX 405 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE MRS. JAMES CHESNUT, JR. _Frontispiece_ From a Portrait in Oil. Reproduced by courtesy of the owner, Mr. David R. Williams, of Camden, S. C. A PAGE OF THE DIARY IN FACSIMILE xxii THE OLD BAPTIST CHURCH IN COLUMBIA, S. C. 4 Here First Met the South Carolina Secession Convention. VIEW OF CHARLESTON DURING THE WAR 22 From an Old Print. FORT SUMTER UNDER BOMBARDMENT 38 From an Old Print. A GROUP OF CONFEDERATE GENERALS 94 Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, Albert Sidney Johnston, “Stonewall” Jackson, John B. Hood, and Pierre G. T. Beauregard. MULBERRY HOUSE, NEAR CAMDEN, S. C. 128 From a Recent Photograph. A GROUP OF CONFEDERATE WOMEN 148 Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Mrs. Francis W. Pickens, Mrs. Louisa S. McCord, Miss S. B. C. Preston, Mrs. David R. Williams (the author’s sister Kate), Miss Isabella D. Martin. ANOTHER GROUP OF CONFEDERATE GENERALS 230 Robert Toombs, John H. Morgan, John C. Preston, Joseph B. Kershaw, James Chesnut, Jr., Wade Hampton. THE DAVIS MANSION IN RICHMOND, THE “WHITE HOUSE” OF THE CONFEDERACY 264 Now the Confederate Museum. MRS. JAMES CHESNUT, SR. 310 From a Portrait in Oil by Gilbert Stuart. Reproduced by courtesy of the owner, Mr. David R. Williams, of Camden, S. C. MRS. CHESNUT’S HOME IN COLUMBIA IN THE LAST YEAR OF THE WAR 314 Here Mrs. Chesnut entertained Jefferson Davis. RUINS OF MILLWOOD, WADE HAMPTON’S ANCESTRAL HOME 350 From a Recent Photograph. A NEWSPAPER “EXTRA” 380 Issued in Chester, S. C., and Announcing the Assassination of Lincoln. COL. JAMES CHESNUT, SR. 390 From a Portrait in Oil by Gilbert Stuart. Reproduced by courtesy of the owner, Mr. David R. Williams, of Camden, S. C. SARSFIELD, NEAR CAMDEN, S. C. 402