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ing terms which, although they were finally ratified by his government, were at the time received with anger and indignation in the North. It was impossible, in the course of a single volume, to give even a sketch of the numerous and complicated operations of the war, and I have therefore confined myself to the central point of the great struggle--the attempts of the Northern armies to force their way to Richmond, the capital of Virginia and the heart of the Confederacy. Even in recounting the leading events in these campaigns, I have burdened my story with as few details as possible, it being my object now, as always, to amuse as well as to give instruction in the facts of history.
G. A. HENTY.
Contents
* Chapter 1. A Virginian Plantation.
* Chapter 2. Buying a Slave.
* Chapter 3. Aiding a Runaway.
* Chapter 4. Safely Back.
* Chapter 5. Secession.
* Chapter 6. Bull Run.
* Chapter 7. The Merrimac and the Monitor.
* Chapter 8. McClellan's Advance.
* Chapter 9. A Prisoner.
* Chapter 10. The Escape.
* Chapter 11. Fugitives.
* Chapter 12. The Bush-Whackers.
* Chapter 13. Laid Up.
* Chapter 14. Across the Border.
* Chapter 15. Fredericksburg.
* Chapter 16. The Search for Dinah.
* Chapter 17. Chancellorsville.
* Chapter 18. A Perilous Undertaking.
* Chapter 19. Free.
* Chapter 20. The End of the Struggle.
WITH LEE IN VIRGINIA: A STORY OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
CHAPTER I.
A VIRGINIAN PLANTATION.
"I won't have it, Pearson; so it's no use your talking. If I had my way you shouldn't touch any of the field hands. And when I get my way--that won't be so very long--I will take good care you sha'n't. But you sha'n't hit Dan."
"He is not one of the regular house hands," was the reply; "and I shall appeal to Mrs. Wingfield as to whether I am to be interfered with in the dis