| CHAPTER. | | PAGE |
| I. | Introductory | 9 |
| II. | On Duty as a Spy at the Rebel Capital, Montgomery, Alabama—Living in same Hotel with Jeff Davis and His Cabinet—Conspirators from Washington Interviewed—Bounty Offered by Confederates before a Gun Was Fired—Fort Sumter and Fort Pickens | 19 |
| III. | Pensacola, Florida—In Rebel Lines—Fort Pickens—Admiral Porter and the Navy | 28 |
| IV. | Crossing the Bay to Fort Pickens, etc. | 38 |
| V. | Rebel Newspapers—On Admiral Porter's Ship | 52 |
| VI. | Admiral Porter Saves the Boy's Life—Interview with the Rebel Flag-of-Truce Officers, Who Claim Him for a Victim—Scenes on Board a Man-of-War—Return Home by Sea—Reception in New York—Telegraph Acquaintances—New York Papers Record the Adventure in Full Page | 65 |
| VII. | Reporting to the Secretary of War, at Washington—Ordered on Another Scout to Virginia—In Patterson's Army, in Virginia, before the Battle of Bull Run | 80 |
| VIII. | A Night's Scout in Johnston's Army—Rebel Signals—Visitors from the Union Army Headquarters Report to Rebel Headquarters—General J. E. Johnston's Escape to Beauregard Reported to General Patterson—Fitz-John Porter Responsible for the First Battle of Bull Run, as He Was Cashiered for That of the Second Bull Run—An Important Contribution to the War History of the Time—The Story since Confirmed by the Century Historians of Lincoln, Secretaries Nicolay and Hay | 94 |
| 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 |
| XII. | Another Escape, etc. | 154 |
| 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 |
| XVII. | Richmond—A Close Shave | 227 |
| 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 |
| XX. | One Sunday in Richmond—Jeff Davis' and General Lee's Homes and Church—Recognized at Libby Prison—Visit to Texas Camp—A "Difficulty" Renewed—Thrilling Experience—A Night in Richmond with Texas Boys | 272 |
| XXI. | Maryland "Refugees"—Coercing into the Union in East Tennessee "Refugees"—Parson Brownlow Interviewed—A Happy Experience with Maggie Craig—The Battle of Mill Spring—First Union Victory as Seen from Inside the Rebel Army | 293 |
| XXII. | Cruelty of General Ledbetter—Another Narrow Escape—Ordered to Cumberland Gap—A Wearisome Journey—Arrived at the Gap—The Stolen Letter—Alone in the Darkness—The North Star—Day Dawn | 314 |
| XXIII. | Return Home from Cumberland Gap—Meeting with Parson Brownlow on His Trip to Washington | 339 |
| XXIV. | Arrival at Washington—Meets Hon. John Covode—J. W. Forney and Senators—Testimony Before Committee on the Conduct of the War—Remarkable Interviews with Secretary Stanton—A Visit to Mr. Lincoln, at Washington—The Telegraph Corps—Again Ordered to the Front, at Fredericksburg, Virginia | 356 |
| XXV. | Geno—Fredericksburg—A Chapter of War History not in The Century Papers | 377 |
| XXVI. | A Scout to Richmond Develops Important Information—No Force in Front of McDowell to Prevent his Co-operating with McClellan—The Secretary of War Responsible for the Failure of the Peninsula Campaign—Our Spy as a War Correspondent Antagonizes the War Department by Criticism in the Papers—Is Arrested on a Technicality and Sent a Special Prisoner to Old Capitol by the Secretary of War's Orders | 396 |
| XXVII. | Old Capitol Prison—Belle Boyd, the Rebel Spy, a Companion and Friend—A Disguised English Duke—Interesting Scenes and Experiences in this Famous State Prison—Planning to Escape Disguised as a Contraband—Released on Parole by Order of the Secretary of War | 412 |
| XXVIII. | Fired Out of Old Capitol Prison—"Don't Come Here Again!"—My Friend the Jew Sutler—Out in a New Rig—At the Canterbury Theatre | 431 |
| XXIX. | Life at Headquarters Army of Potomac—Some Startling Revelations as to the "True Inwardness," not to say Cussedness, of Our High Union Officials—Interesting Descriptions of Family Life at Headquarters—"Signals"—Ciphers—Again Volunteering for Secret Service Inside the Rebel Army—A Remarkable Statement about Burnside and Hooker—Introduction to General Meade—A Night on the Rappahannock Interviewing Rebel Pickets | 451 |
| XXX. | Conspiracies among Union Generals and Northern Politicians—The Defense of that Unappreciated Army, the Cavalry—Hooker and Dead Cavalrymen—Stoneman's Celebrated Raid to Richmond Truthfully Described, and Its Failure to Capture Richmond Accounted for—A Chapter on the "Secret Service" not Referred to in Official Reports or Current War History | 480 |
| XXXI. | Farewell to Fredericksburg—General Pleasonton—Cavalry Fighting at Brandy and Aldie—Looking after Stuart's Rebel Cavalry—A Couple of Close Calls—Chased by Mosby's Guerrillas—With Custer in Frederick, Md., the Day before the Battle, Flirting with the Girls | 510 |
| XXXII. | Sent to Find General Buford—A Hasty Ride—The Battle of Gettysburg—Cemetery Ridge—General Doubleday—General Hancock—The Second Day of the Battle | 519 |
| XXXIII. | Closing Chapter | 548 |
