TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of the book. Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. MY DIARY NORTH AND SOUTH. MY DIARY NORTH AND SOUTH. BY WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: BRADBURY AND EVANS, 11, BOUVERIE STREET. 1863. [_The right of Translation is reserved._] LONDON: BRADBURY AND EVANS PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE Down the Mississippi--Hotel at Vicksburg--Dinner--Public meeting--News of the progress of the war--Slavery and England--Jackson--Governor Pettus--Insecurity of life--Strong Southern enthusiasm--Troops bound for the North--Approach to Memphis--Slaves for sale--Memphis--General Pillow 1 CHAPTER II. Camp Randolph--Cannon practice--Volunteers--“Dixie”--Forced return from the South--Apathy of the North--General retrospect of politics--Energy and earnestness of the South--Firearms--Position of Great Britain towards the belligerents--Feeling towards the Old Country 22 CHAPTER III. Heavy Bill--Railway travelling--Introductions--Assassinations --Tennessee--“Corinth”--“Troy”--“Humbolt”--“The Confederate camp”--Return Northwards--Columbus--Cairo--The slavery question --Prospects of the war--Coarse journalism 41 CHAPTER IV. Camp at Cairo--The North and the South in respect to Europe-- Political reflections--Mr. Colonel Oglesby--My speech--Northern and Southern soldiers compared--American country-walks-- Recklessness of life--Want of cavalry--Emeute in the camp-- Defects of army medical department--Horrors of war--Bad discipline 63 CHAPTER V. Impending battle--By railway to Chicago--Northern enlightenment --Mound City--“Cotton is King”--Land in the States--Dead level of American society--Return into the Union--American homes--Across the prairie--White labourers--New pillager--Lake Michigan 77 CHAPTER VI. Progress of events--Policy of Great Britain as regarded by the North--The American Press and its comments--Privacy a luxury--Chicago--Senator Douglas and his widow--American ingratitude--Apathy in volunteering--Colonel Turchin’s camp 88 CHAPTER VII.