IX. Reporting to General Bank's Headquarters for Duty--The Life of Jeff Davis Threatened--Captured at Harper's Ferry--Interesting Personal Letters Corroborating the Supposed Death of the "Boy Spy" 114
X. At Beauregard's Headquarters--On Duty at Manassas 125
XI. Important Documents Intercepted at Manassas, which Established the Fact that the Rebel Army had no Intention, and Were not Able to Advance after Manassas--The Rebel Army Demoralized by Success, and Twenty-five Per Cent. Absent from Epidemic--On the Field after the Battle--Observation Inside Rebel Camps--Talking with Richmond by Wire--Captured by Rebel Picket in Sight of the Signal Lights at Georgetown College 134
XIII. One More Escape--"Yanking" the Telegraph Wires--"On to Richmond!"--A Close Shave 166
XIV. On to Richmond--A Night of Terror--A Ghastly Find in the Woods--Attacked by Bloodhounds--Other Miraculous Escapes--First Visit to Fredericksburg--A Collection Taken up in a Church in Virginia for the "Boy Spy"--Arrives in Richmond 178
XV. Sick In Richmond--Concealed by a Colored Boy and Unable to Move--An Original Cipher Letter Sent Through the Blockade to Washington that Tells the Whole Story in a Few Words--Meeting with Maryland Refugees--The "Boy Spy" Serenaded--"Maryland, My Maryland"--Jeff Davis' Office and Home--A Visit to Union Prisoners at Libby Prison, etc. 195
XVI. Richmond--Hollywood--Jeff Davis--Breckinridge--Extra Billy Smith--Mayor, Governor, etc. 214
XVIII. Richmond on an Autumn Morning--A Group of Good Looking Soldiers--Jeff Davis Passes By--The Battle of Ball's Bluff--Richmond Newspapers 238
XVIII. A Narrow Escape--Recognized by Texas Friends at a Richmond Theatre--Personnel of the Maryland Battery--Refugees from Ireland--Camp Lee, near Richmond--Our Captain--Lieutenant Claiborne, of Mississippi--Our Section Drills--Horses for Our Use in Town and Adjoining County--Visits of Ladies--Capitola--Popularity of Refugees--The Entertainment for Marylanders--Tableau--Jeff Davis Strikes the Chains from the Enslaved Maryland Beauty 245
XIX. Richmond, Fall 1861--Daily Visits to the War Office, Mechanics Hall--Evenings Devoted to Visits in Town--Mixed up with Maryland Ladies--Fort Pickens Opens Fire on Pensacola Batteries--General Winder, of Maryland--Jeff Davis Inaugurated President--Shake Hands with Jeff Davis 261