Reports to Major-General McPherson--Instructions--Disguise-- Starts for Vicksburg--Changes his route--Reports to General Denver--Acquaintance with a cotton-buyer--Plan to make money-- Visits guerrilla Sol. Street--The arrangement consummated-- Visit to General Price--Arrival at Jackson--Robbed of his field-glasses--Introduction to President Davis--Visit to Vicksburg--Visit to Edwards' Station--Meets his bear-hunting comrades--Visits Black River bridge--Robbed of his horse--The return--Reports to General McPherson--Reports to General Grant 217 CHAPTER XX. Return to Mississippi--Instructions--Visit to Troy--Movement of cavalry--Reports to General Denver--Is arrested--Federal cavalry driven back--Is released--Visits Greenwood--Journey to the Mississippi River--The perilous crossing--Again arrested-- Interview with Gen. Prentiss--Takes the oath of allegiance-- Meets a friend--Makes his escape--Reports to Gen. Grant 233 CHAPTER XXI. Return to the regiment--The Henry rifle--The march from Milliken's Bend--The tug of war--The army crosses the Mississippi--Capture of Port Gibson--Battle of Raymond--Amusing Capture--The charge on Jackson--Battle of Champion Hills--The rebel courier--Sharp- shooting--The gallant charge--The march to Vicksburg--The place besieged 245 CHAPTER XXII. First sharp-shooting at Vicksburg--Silences two guns--The rifle- pit--Shoots a Carolinian--The Carolinian's comrade--Outshoots a squad of sixteen--The defiant rebel--Shoots for Gens. McPherson and Logan--Beats the Parrot rifles--Joke on the Adjutant-General --Visit to Admiral Porter--The French spy--The disclosures-- Capture of a rebel dispatch--The fate of the spy 259 CHAPTER XXIII. Sent for by General Grant--Instructions--Crosses Black River-- Is captured by rebel cavalry--Sent to General DeVieu--The interview--Passes as Johnston's spy--The attempt to escape--The pursuit--Fired at by Federal pickets--Again fired at by the enemy--The pursuers driven back--Again fired at by Federal pickets--The alarm--Reports to General Osterhaus--Reports to General Grant 275 CHAPTER XXIV. Visit to Chickasaw Landing--Surrender of Vicksburg--Visit to the city--The paroled Major--The Yankee trick--Returns to Vicksburg--Made detective--Is sent to Yazoo City--Attends a guerrilla organization--Makes them a speech--Returns to Vicksburg 286 CHAPTER XXV. Taken sick with the ague--Encounters his Satanic Majesty--The Devil afraid of General Grant--Expedition to Bogue Chitto Creek--Captures a rebel Colonel--Enlists as a veteran--Makes a speech to the soldiers 295 CHAPTER XXVI.