Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/campcourtsiegen00hoffiala Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). A detailed transcriber's note can be found at the end of the book. CAMP COURT AND SIEGE A Narrative of Personal Adventure and Observation During Two Wars 1861-1865 1870-1871 by WICKHAM HOFFMAN Assistant Adj.-Gen. U. S. Vols. and Secretary U. S. Legation at Paris London Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington Crown Buildings, 188 Fleet Street. 1877 Dedication. TO THE HON. E. B. WASHBURNE, MINISTER OF THE U. S. AT PARIS, THESE PAGES ARE CORDIALLY DEDICATED, IN ADMIRATION OF THE STERLING QUALITIES OF MANHOOD DISPLAYED BY HIM DURING THE DARK DAYS OF THE SIEGE AND COMMUNE, AND IN RECOLLECTION OF MANY PLEASANT HOURS PASSED TOGETHER DURING AN OFFICIAL CONNECTION OF NEARLY SIX YEARS. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Hatteras.--"Black Drink."--Fortress Monroe.--General Butler. --Small-pox.--"L'Isle des Chats."--Lightning.--Farragut.--Troops land.--Surrender of Forts Page 11 CHAPTER II. New Orleans.--Custom-house.--Union Prisoners.--The Calaboose. --"Them Lincolnites."--The St. Charles.--"Grape-vine Telegraph." --New Orleans Shop-keepers.--Butler and Soulé.--The Fourth Wisconsin.--A New Orleans Mob.--Yellow Fever 23 CHAPTER III. Vicksburg.--River on Fire.--Baton Rouge.--Start again for Vicksburg. --The _Hartford_.--The Canal.--Farragut.--Captain Craven.--The _Arkansas_.--Major Boardman.--The _Arkansas_ runs the Gauntlet--Malaria 35 CHAPTER IV. Sickness.--Battle of Baton Rouge.--Death of Williams.--"Fix Bayonets!"--Thomas Williams.--His Body.--General T. W. Sherman. --Butler relieved.--General Orders, No. 10.--Mr. Adams and Lord Palmerston.--Butler's Style 47 CHAPTER V. T. W. Sherman.--Contrabands.--Defenses of New Orleans.--Exchange of Prisoners.--Amenities in War.--Port Hudson.--Reconnoissance in Force.--The Fleet.--Our Left.--Assault of May 27th.--Sherman wounded.--Port Hudson surrenders 59 CHAPTER VI. Major-general Franklin.--Sabine Pass.--Collision at Sea.--March through Louisiana.--Rebel Correspondence.--"The Gypsy's Wassail." --Rebel Women.--Rebel Poetry.--A Skirmish.--Salt Island.--Winter Climate.--Banks's Capua.--Major Joseph Bailey 74 CHAPTER VII. Mistakes.--Affair at Mansfield.--Peach Hill.--Freaks of the Imagination.--After Peach Hill.--General William Dwight.--Retreat to Pleasant Hill.--Pleasant Hill.--General Dick Taylor.--Taylor and the King of Denmark.--An Incident 87 CHAPTER VIII.