A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865 / being a record of the actual experiences of the wife of a Confederate officer

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	—Home life in a Southern harbor	1
II.	—How I met Dan Grey	12
III.	—The first days of the Confederacy	22
IV.	—The realities of war	38
V.	—I meet Belle Boyd and see Dick in a new light	51
VI.	—A faithful slave and a hospital ward	59
VII.	—Traveling through Dixie in war times	69
VIII.	—By flag of truce	83
IX.	—I make up my mind to run the blockade	91
X.	—I cross the country in an ambulance and the Pamunkey on a lighter	101
XI.	—The old order	113
XII.	—A dangerous masquerade	124
XIII.	—A last farewell	139
XIV.	—The little Jew boy and the provost’s deputy	144
XV.	—I fall into the hands of the enemy	150
XVI.	—The flower of chivalry	172
XVII.	—Prisoners of the United States	188
XVIII.	—Within our lines	211
XIX.	—My comrade General Jeb Stuart	230
XX.	—“Whose business ’tis To die”	244
XXI.	—Rescued by the foe	263
XXII.	—With Dan at Charlottesville	285
XXIII.	—“Into the jaws of death”	297
XXIV.	—By the skin of our teeth	315
XXV.	—The beginning of the end	330
XXVI.	—How we lived in the last days of the Confederacy	349
XXVII.	—Under the Stars and Stripes	365

A VIRGINIA GIRL IN THE CIVIL WAR

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