Leave for Richmond--Ordered to Evansport, Va., to Blockade the 140 Potomac--Worthless Ammunition--Forces on the Maryland Shore--Constant Firing All Winter--Orders to Fall Back to Fredericksburg--"Come to Richmond Immediately"--Orders from Gen. Lee--New Berne Falls--Relieve Branch at Kinston--Ordered to Wilmington--Build Defenses--Fort Fisher Constructed--Col. William Lamb in Command--Running the Blockade--Whitworth Guns--July 17, 1862, Placed in Command of the Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia--Defend a Line from the Appomattox to Cape Fear--July 31, Shell Gen. McClellan's Army--Constructed Defenses of Petersburg--Battle of Fredericksburg--Pelham--President Calls for Me--Gen. Lee's Considerate Conduct--Gen. Foster at Tarboro, N. C.--He Interviews an Old Darky--Railroad Bridge at Goldsboro, N. C., Burned--Weak Defense Made--How I Got Supplies from Suffolk--Mrs. Johnston and Gen. Viele--Was Fannie Cooper a Spy?--Martial Law--Sidney Lanier--Flag of Truce Boats--Exchange of Prisoners CHAPTER XII. Telegram from Secretary of War--Go to Richmond--Declined Going 159 to Vicksburg--Gen. Longstreet--He Starts for Suffolk--Suffolk--Capture of a Fort and Garrison--No Report Made of the Capture--Statement of Lieut. George Reese--Longstreet Ordered to Join Lee--Dispatches--Battle of Chancellorsville--Withdraw from Suffolk--An Impertinent Note--Court of Inquiry Asked for and Refused--Possible Result Had Longstreet Obeyed Orders--Ten Dispatches to Longstreet--Orders to Report to Gen. Johnston CHAPTER XIII. Leave Petersburg for Jackson, Miss.--Visit Home--My Division 178 Composed of the Brigades of Gens. Maxey, Evans, and McNair--Extraordinary Correspondence between Gen. Johnston and President Davis--Movements to Attack Grant at Vicksburg--Fall of Vicksburg--Retreat to Jackson--Siege of Jackson--Visit Home--Negro Troops Surround the House--Narrow Escape--Vandalism--Johnston Takes Command of the Army of Tennessee--Polk in Command of Army of Mississippi--A Court of Inquiry That Was Not Held--My Division at Meridian--President Davis--Jackson Burned--Sherman's Advance on Meridian--Ordered to Mobile--Polk Crossing Tombigbee River--He Is Slow to Move--Go to Demopolis--Mr. Fournier--Sent to Lauderdale--Tuscaloosa--Montevallo--Reach Rome--Fight at Rome--Join Gen. Johnston at Cassville CHAPTER XIV.