And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats In hopelessness I scanned the wreck, and then I went back to school. In June, 1865, a boy named John Sergeant Wise, a visitor at the home of his uncle, General Meade, in Philadelphia, was a witness of the triumphant return of the armies of the Union. He was regarded as such a mere child that he was not invited to the table when company came, but dined with the other children in the nursery. A little later, he sat in overalls and a straw hat fishing near the shores of the blue Chesapeake. In September, he was sent to school. In October, he was playing furiously on the scrub nine of his college baseball team. Two years later, he was admitted to the practice of law, and even then he had not attained his majority. It is incredible that this stripling was the same person as the young officer whose observations and career have been chronicled in these pages. Nor is it more difficult now for the reader than for the writer to realize that this narrative is aught but a dream. INDEX Abingdon, Va., 373, 381. 22. Accomack County, when formed, 15. 214. Albemarle County, 138. Alexander, colonel of artillery, 340. Allens of Tuckahoe, the, 139. Amelia Court House, 416. Anderson, Lieutenant-Colonel, 182, Anderson, Lieutenant-General, 330. Andrew, Governor John A., 134. Annamessex Creek, 18. Aqueduct, at Rio de Janeiro, 102. Arbuckle family, 29. Arlington, Lord, 18. Arlington plantation, 18. Blackstone family, 29. Army of Tennessee dissolves, 456, Blandford, church and cemetery, 356, 457. Arnold of Rugby, 246. Arthur, President Chester A., 239. Assassination of Lincoln, how re- Averill, General, raid by, 272. Bacchante, painting by Pauline Lau- Breathitt, Colonel, 340. Chamberlayne, Captain J. Hamp- Chapel Hill, N. C., 238. Chesapeake Bay, 10, 11, 22, 27, 40, Cherrystone Creek, 18. Breckinridge, General John C., 71, Chesconnessex Creek, 18, 27. 72, 288, 294, 401, 445, 450-453. Bricabrac, at Rolleston, 208. Brooke, Captain John M., 194, 195. Brown, General, of Freedmen's Bu- Brown, Old John, 75, 113, 136, 144; Browne family, 17. Chickahominy, 213, 214. Childhood at Only, 44-46, 52, 53. Captain H. A. Wise, Brownsville, seat of Upshur family, Christmas, 1-4, 7, 391. Burnside's expedition, 181-183. "Church Hill Cats," Richmond, 59. Clover Station, Va., 412. Cocke, Sylvester P., financier, 215, Cockes of Fluvanna, 139. Butlers, the old slave, the terror of Coehorn mortars at crater fight, small boys, 122. 352. Cold Harbor, 308. Cabell, Cadet Sergeant, 299, 302, Coles, Captain, killed at Roanoke, 306. Cabell, Mrs., mules of, 67. Cadet boxes from home, 283, 284. Campbell family, The, 239. Campbell, Miss, of Louisiana, 403. Captain Jenks" first heard, 441. Carrington, Major Isaac H., 409. Cateti, suburb of Rio de Janeiro, 1. 186, 187. Colonna, Cadet, 247-249. Colston, General R. E., 261, 268. Confederate prices, 392-394. Confederate reserves, 372, 391. Confederate traitors, 460, 461. Confederate wedding, a, 397. Confederates who were never Con- federates, 396. Congress, the ship, 198, 199. Cook, co-conspirator with John Cooks, of old time Virginia, un- Cooper, General Samuel, 175. Cornfield peas, the best friend of Corporal, promoted to, 284. Corps of cadets, first sight of, 101. There is no Drunkenness on Eastern Shore, 16. Craney Island, 164, 167, 196. 66 Brown, 130. Dale, Sir Thomas, 13. Dunlop, Mr. James, of Petersburg, Duryee, Colonel Abram, 110. Early, General Jubal A., 227-229, 66 "East Lynne," the play, 93. Edgar's battalion, 302. Ekeekes, Chief of Onancock, 27. Daingerfield, Mr., captured by John Elliott's salient, 346, 352, 353,357, 359, Dale's Gift, 13. Daniel, John M., 171, 177. Davis, President Jefferson, 175, 214, De Ruyter, Dutch admiral, anec- Devonshire, our folks from, 23. Dixie" first heard, 157. Dress of period, 1856-60, 66, 67. 66 Examiner," Falls of the James, 14. Fanatics, what they are, 49. Faulkner, Charles J., cadet and sen- Fighting among Richmond boys, 58. Fillmore, President Millard, 71. |