Secrets of the Late Rebellion, Now Revealed for the First TimeFreese, Jacob R.
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Secrets of the Late Rebellion, Now Revealed for the First Time
Freese, Jacob R.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
Cotton and Gold Markets in 1863--What They Indicated--Great Divorce
Trial--Arguments on Both Sides--First Confederate Loan--By whom
Taken--Arrival in New York of Lord Brew-erton--His Conference with
President McLane--Goes to Baltimore, and whom he Meets--Then on
to Washington--Scene in Ben. Beveridge's Saloon--Then to English
Embassy--Remains with Lord Lyons--Concludes to go South--How he
Goes--His Disguise--Hiding in Negro Hut--Midnight Ride Behind a
Blind Mule, in a Two-wheel Dirt Cart--How he Gets Through the Union
Lines--Arrival in Richmond--Stops with President Davis--Grand Ball at
Executive Mansion in Honor of Lord Brewerton--The Dresses of, and
who Present--Trip Through Confederate States--His Report to President
Davis--Returns to Washington--Attends President Lincoln's Levee with
Confederate Officer--Reports to Philadelphia and New York Cotton
Rings--Returns to England--Other English Lords in the Confederate
States--Sons of Peers in the Confederate Army--All After the Gold
Nuggets
CHAPT VI. IN TIGHT PLACES AND OUT SHREWDNESS PULLING THE WIRES.
Other Incidents in Running the Land Blockade--Mr. Danger-field a
Passenger--His Strange Experiences--Mr. Willis a Passenger, and
his Experiences--One of the Conductors Arrested as a Spy--How he
Escapes--Senator Johnson in a Bad Fix--How he Got Out--No Ill-will
Towards Perpetrators
CHAPT VII. PRISONERS, HOW USED AND HOW ABUSED. CRAFT AND CRUELTY
PROMPTING THE ACTORS.
Bounty Jumpers, by whom and how Encouraged--Richmond Diplomacy, and how
Put in Practice--Bounty Jumpers Specially Well Treated--Treatment
of Other Union Prisoners at Libby Prison--At Castle Thunder--At
Salisbury--At Ander-sonville--Related by an Eye-Witness
CHAPT VIII. GUERILLAS ON THE WAR-PATH. CUNNING AND DUPLICITY PROMPTING
THE ACTORS. DESTRUCTION IN THE BACKGROUND.
"Moseby's Cavalry," how Organized and how Operated--Startling Facts
Never Before Published--Four Persons Bound with Chains, and then
Burned with Storehouse and Contents--Stealing of a Horse from
Lieutenant-Colonel Phillips--A "Dunk-ard" Murdered for his
Money--Paymaster Tilletson Gobbled Up--Six Union Officers about to
be Hung by Moseby's Guerillas, and how Saved--Three Officers Stripped
Naked, and Turned Out to Perish--How Rescued--Murder of
Cavalry Prisoners After Surrender--Grant and Sheridan's Plan of
Retribution--Terrible Results
CHAPT IX. WHAT BECAME OF SLAVES DURING AND AFTER THE WAR. THE ALMIGHTY
DOLLAR PROMPTING THE ACTORS. "WE NEBER SEED'em ANY MORE."
Number of Slaves Before the War--Number After--What Became of them
During and After the War--Droves to Texas--Shiploads to Brazil and
Cuba--How the Trade was Carried On--Kidnapping After the War--Northern
and Southern Consciences
CHAPT X. THE CONFEDERACY AS SEEN FROM WITHIN. PRIDE, PASSION, AND WANT
IN THE BACKGROUND.
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