of Members.--New Orleans Again.--Reviewing Troops.--New Orleans Again.--Hatred of Southern Unionists.--Three Obnoxious Northerners.--The Attack on Sumter.--Rebel Bravado. CHAPTER VII. 91 Abolition Tendencies of Kentuckians.--Fundamental Grievances of the Rebels.--Sudden Departure from New Orleans.--Mobile.--The War Spirit High.--An Awkward Encounter.--"Massa, Fort Sumter has gone Up."--Bells Ringing.--Cannon Booming.--Up the Alabama River.--A Dancing Little Darkey.--How to Escape Suspicion.--Southern Characteristics and Provincialism.--Visit to the Confederate Capital.--At Montgomery, Alabama.--Copperas Breeches _vs._ Black Breeches.--A Correspondent under Arrest. CHAPTER VIII. 105 A Journey Through Georgia.--Excitement of the People.--Washington to be Captured.--Apprehensions about Arming the Negroes.--A Fatal Question.--Charleston.--Looking at Fort Sumter.--A Short Stay in the City.--North Carolina.--The Country on Fire.--Submitting to Rebel Scrutiny.--The North Heard From.--Richmond, Virginia.--The Frenzy of the People.--Up the Potomac.--The Old Flag Once More.--An Hour with President Lincoln.--Washington in Panic.--A Regiment which Came Out to Fight.--Baltimore under Rebel Rule.--Pennsylvania.--The North fully Aroused.--Uprising of the whole People.--A _Tribune_ Correspondent on Trial in Charleston.--He is Warned to Leave.--His Fortunate Escape II.--THE FIELD. CHAPTER IX. 125 Sunday at Niagara Falls.--View from the Suspension Bridge.--The Palace of the Frost King.--Chicago, a City Rising from the Earth.--Mysteries of Western Currency.--A Horrible Spectacle in Arkansas.--Patriotism of the Northwest.--Missouri.--The Rebels bent on Revolution.--Nathaniel Lyon.--Camp Jackson.--Sterling Price Joins the Rebels.--His Quarrel with Frank Blair.--His Personal Character.--St. Louis in a Convulsion.--A Nashville Experience.--Bitterness of Old Neighbors.--Good Soldiers for Scaling Walls.--Wholesome Advice to Missouri Slaveholders CHAPTER X. 141 Cairo, Illinois.--A Visit from General McClellan.--A little Speech-making.--Penalty of Writing for _The Tribune_.--A Unionist Aided to Escape from Memphis by a Loyal Girl.--The Fascinations of Cairo.--The Death of Douglas.--A Clear-headed Contraband.--A Review of the Troops.--"Not a Fighting Nigger, but a Running Nigger."--Capture of a Rebel Flag CHAPTER XI. 151 Missouri Again.--The Retributions of Time.--A Railroad Reminiscence.--Jefferson City.--A Fugitive Governor.--"Black