Preface
Contents
Illustrations
CHAPTER I WASHINGTON IN THE FIFTIES
CHAPTER II PRESIDENT PIERCE'S INAUGURATION
CHAPTER III ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT BUCHANAN
CHAPTER IV SOCIAL LIFE DURING BUCHANAN'S ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER V GAY SOCIAL LIFE IN WASHINGTON
CHAPTER VI CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL LIFE IN 1858 LEADERS IN SOCIETY
CHAPTER VII THE THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS
CHAPTER VIII MEMORABLE DAYS IN THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY
CHAPTER IX RAPID PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT THE SOUTH
CHAPTER X VIRGINIA AGAIN THE BATTLE-GROUND
CHAPTER XI LIFE AT THE OAKS
CHAPTER XII BULL RUN AND FAIR OAKS
CHAPTER XIII THE SEVEN DAYS' BATTLES
CHAPTER XIV THE WINTER OF 1861
CHAPTER XV GUARDING THE BLACKWATER
CHAPTER XVI VICISSITUDES OF THE WAR
CHAPTER XVII A HOMELESS WANDERER
CHAPTER XVIII THE SIEGE OF PETERSBURG
CHAPTER XIX BEHIND LEE'S LINES
CHAPTER XX ARRIVING AT EXTREMITIES
CHAPTER XXI A WINTER OF WANT
CHAPTER XXII THE EVACUATION OF PETERSBURG
CHAPTER XXIII RICHMOND SURRENDERS
CHAPTER XXIV SHERIDAN'S OCCUPATION OF PETERSBURG
CHAPTER XXV WOE TO THE VANQUISHED!
CHAPTER XXVI STARTING LIFE ANEW
CHAPTER XXVII THE FIRST "DECORATION DAY"
CHAPTER XXVIII VIRGINIA IN THE EARLY DAYS OF PEACE
FOOTNOTES
Title: Reminiscences of Peace and War
Author: Sara Agnes Rice Pryor
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GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE ON "TRAVELLER."
From a photograph by Miley, Lexington, Va.
Reminiscences
of
Peace and War
BY
MRS. ROGER A. PRYOR
AUTHOR OF "THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON AND HER TIMES"
REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1904, 1905,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1904. Reprinted December, 1904; March, 1905.
New edition, with additions, September, 1905; April, 1908.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO THE MEMORY OF
My Son
WILLIAM RICE PRYOR, M.D.
WHO GAVE TO SUFFERING HUMANITY ALL THAT
GOD HAD GIVEN HIM
