The Secret Service. / The Field, The Dungeon, and The Escape by Albert D. Richardson

I. THE SECRET SERVICE.
Going South in the Secret Service. Instructions from the Managing Editor. A Visit to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. Nashville, Tennessee. Alabama Unionists. How the State was Precipitated into the Rebellion. Reaching Memphis. Abolitionists Mobbed and Hanged. Brutalities of Slavery.
In Memphis. How the Secessionists Carried the Day. Aims of the Leading Rebels. On the Railroad. A Northerner Warned. An Amusing Dialogue. Talk about Assassinating President Lincoln. Arrival in New Orleans. Hospitality from a Stranger. An Ovation to General Twiggs. Braxton Bragg. The Rebels Anxious for War. A Glance at the Louisiana Convention.
Association with Leading Secessionists. Their Hatred of New England. Admission to the Democratic Club. Abuse of President Lincoln. Sinking Buildings, Cellars and Walls Impossible. Cemeteries above Ground. Monument of a Pirate. Canal Street. The Great French Markets. Dedication of a Secession Flag in the Catholic Church. The Cotton Presses. Visit to the Jackson Battle-ground. The Creoles. Jackson's Head-Quarters. A Fire in the Rear. A Life Saved by a Cigar. A Black Republican Flag. Vice-President Hamlin a Mulatto. Northerners leaving the South.
How Letters were Written and Transmitted. A System of Cipher. A Philadelphian among the Rebels. Probable fate of a Tribune Correspondent, if Discovered. Southern Manufactures. A Visit to a Southern Shoe Factory. Where the Machinery and Workmen came from. How Southern Shoes were Made. Study of Southern Society. Report of a Slave Auction. Sale of a White Woman. Girls on the Block. Husbands and Wives Separated. A most Revolting Spectacle. The Delights of a Tropical Climate.
A Northerner among the Minute Men. Louisiana Convention. A Lively Discussion. Boldness of the Union Members. Another Exciting Discussion. Secessionists Repudiate their Own Doctrines. Despotic Rebel Theories. The Northwest to Join the Rebels. The Great Swamp. A Trip through Louisiana. The Tribune Correspondent Invited to a Seat in the Mississippi Convention.
The Mississippi State-House. View of the Rebel Hall. Its General Air of Dilapidation. A Free-and-Easy Convention. Southern Orators. The Anglo-African Delegate. A Speech Worth Preserving. Familiar Conversation of Members. New Orleans Again. Reviewing Troops. New Orleans Again. Hatred of Southern Unionists. Three Obnoxious Northerners. The Attack on Sumter. Rebel Bravado.
Abolition Tendencies of Kentuckians. Fundamental Grievances of the Rebels. Sudden Departure from New Orleans. Mobile. The War Spirit High. An Awkward Encounter. "Massa, Fort Sumter has gone Up." Bells Ringing. Cannon Booming. Up the Alabama River. A Dancing Little Darkey. How to Escape Suspicion. Southern Characteristics and Provincialism. Visit to the Confederate Capital. At Montgomery, Alabama. Copperas Breeches vs. Black Breeches. A Correspondent under Arrest.
A Journey Through Georgia. Excitement of the People. Washington to be Captured. Apprehensions about Arming the Negroes. A Fatal Question. Charleston. Looking at Fort Sumter. A Short Stay in the City. North Carolina. The Country on Fire. Submitting to Rebel Scrutiny. The North Heard From. Richmond, Virginia. The Frenzy of the People. Up the Potomac. The Old Flag Once More. An Hour with President Lincoln. Washington in Panic. A Regiment which Came Out to Fight. Baltimore under Rebel Rule. Pennsylvania. The North fully Aroused. Uprising of the whole People. A Tribune Correspondent on Trial in Charleston. He is Warned to Leave. His Fortunate Escape
II. THE FIELD.
Sunday at Niagara Falls. View from the Suspension Bridge. The Palace of the Frost King. Chicago, a City Rising from the Earth. Mysteries of Western Currency. A Horrible Spectacle in Arkansas. Patriotism of the Northwest. Missouri. The Rebels bent on Revolution. Nathaniel Lyon. Camp Jackson. Sterling Price Joins the Rebels. His Quarrel with Frank Blair. His Personal Character. St. Louis in a Convulsion. A Nashville Experience. Bitterne