Logan, Mary S. (Mrs. John A.) Reminiscences of a Soldier’s Wife; an Autobiography by Mrs. John A. Logan. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1913.

CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS — SOUTHERNERS THE MAJORITY AMONG THE SETTLERS — ABSENCE OF FREE SCHOOLS — POPULATION MAINLY AGRICULTURAL — WOMAN'S WORK ON THE FARM — PASTIMES AND HOLIDAYS — QUILTING-P ARTIES, CORN- HUSKINGS AND APPLE-PARINGS — '* TRAINING DAY" — FOURTH OF JULY AND CHRISTMAS — CHURCHES INFREQUENT — PRO- TRACTED MEETINGS AND REVIVALS — PROMINENT PREACHERS — DOCTOR BASCOM, THE FRIEND OF CLAY — PULPIT DEBATES ORGANIZATION OF THE CAMPBELLITE CHURCH — TEACHERS FROM MASSACHUSETTS — PROGRESS IN EDUCATION SINCE PIONEER DAYS — WIDE-SPREAD IGNORANCE 3 CHAPTER II THE WAR WITH MEXICO — MY FATHER ENLISTS FOR THE WAR — ELECTED CAPTAIN OF HIS COMPANY — ENCOUNTERS YOUNG LIEUTENANT JOHN A. LOGAN — AN INTIMACY FORMED AT ONCE — CROSSING THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT — TOO LATE FOR THE WAR — father's THREE YEARS IN CALIFORNIA — I AM SENT TO BOARDING-SCHOOL IN KENTUCKY — THE SISTERS AND THE SLAVES — GIRLISH ESCAPADES — VACATION EMPLOYMENTS GRADUATION — MARRIAGE AT SEVENTEEN TO PROSECUTING ATTORNEY LOGAN, TWELVE YEARS MY SENIOR — THE WEDDING — REMOVAL TO BENTON — EARLY HOUSEKEEPING — "fair week" — EXPERT EQUESTRIENNES — BIRTH OF MY TWO ELDEST CHILDREN AND DEATH OF MY FIRST-BORN 26 CHAPTER III "court week" at MURPHYSBORO — AIDING MY HUSBAND IN LEGAL ROUTINE — EMINENT PRACTITIONERS — BELLIGERENCE OF LITIGANTS — CHARACTERISTIC CASES — PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1856 — JOINT DISCUSSIONS DEMOCRATIC PARTY LARGELY IN THE MAJORITY — DOUGLAS AND POPULAR SOVER- EIGNTY — THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS CAMPAIGN OF 1 8 58 — MY HUSBAND ELECTED TO THE LEGISLATURE — MRS. DOUGLAS — LINCOLN AS SEEN BY AN OPPONENT — DOUGLAS'S STRONG SPEECH AT CLINTON — LINCOLN'S ILLNESS — MR. LOGAN's POLITICAL VIEWS MODIFIED BY LINCOLN'S LOGIC — A REPUBLICAN AFTER SUMTER 50 CHAPTER IV MR. LOGAN ELECTED TO THE THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS — THE JOURNEY TO WASHINGTON — RAILWAY TRAVEL IN 1859 — INSTALLED AT BROWN'S HOTEL — THE CAPITAL DOMINATED BY SLAVEHOLDERS — A CAB ADVENTURE — PRESIDENT BUCHANAN AND MISS LANE AT THE WHITE HOUSE — RECEPTION AT SENATOR Douglas's — re-election of Douglas to the Senate — HIS LOYALTY TO LINCOLN — ARRIVAL OF LINCOLN IN WASHINGTON — THE INAUGURATION — THE CRISIS AND CURRENT CONDITIONS — OUR FIRST STATE DINNER — GENERAL SOCIAL FESTIVITIES ON THE VERGE OF WAR — THE THEATRES — FIRING ON SUMTER — PUBLIC OPINION AT HOME — LOGAN'S STAND FOR THE UNION — HIS SPEECH AT MARION — ENLISTS "FOR THE war" AND RAISES A REGIMENT 70

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CHAPTER V CAIRO, ILLINOIS, IN 1 86 1 — THE IMPORTANT STRATEGIC POINT IN THE WEST — "king COTTON " — THE RIVER STEAMERS — A FORLORN RENDEZVOUS — DISCOMFORTS AND HARDSHIPS — RAW RECRUITS THE GENERAL RULE — DEPARTURES FOR THE FRONT PATHETIC SCENES — SOL's LETTER FROM HOME — A SECOND ARMY COMPOSED OF VISITORS — SICKNESS IN THE CAMP — A JOURNEY NORTH FOR SUPPLIES PROVES A GREAT SUCCESS — LOGAN PERSUADES THREE MONTHS' MEN TO RE-ENLIST — "FORWARD, march!" at last — ONLY A FORAGING EXPEDITION — THE BATTLE OF BELMONT — ARRIVAL OF THE DEAD AND WOUNDED AT CAIRO — HOSPITAL SCENES — GENERAL GRANT IN COMMAND 101 CHAPTER VI MORE TROOPS AT CAIRO — EXPEDITION UP THE TENNESSEE AND THE CUMBERLAND — ARRIVAL OF TRANSPORTS — FALL OF FORT HENRY — SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF FORT DONELSON — COLONEL LOGAN SEVERELY WOUNDED — I SUCCEED IN GETTING TO THE FRONT — FIND MY HUSBAND AT GRANT'S HEADQUARTERS — THE battle-field's TRAGIC STORY — WE REACH HOME — LOGAN REJOINS HIS COMMAND AS BRIGADIER-GENERAL — SHILOH — LOGAN'S ADVICE FATALLY REJECTED BY HALLECK — JOIN MY HUSBAND AT MEMPHIS — GENERAL McPHERSON — ILLNESS OF GENERAL LOGAN — INVESTMENT OF VICKSBURG — LOGAN'S CHARGE — BLOWING UP FORT HILL — FIRST IN THE CAPTURED CITY — POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 1863 — CONTRABANDS IN ILLINOIS — I BEFRIEND ONE AND CIRCUMVENT THE "golden circle" — FURLOUGHS AFTER THE FALL OF VICKSBURG — POLITICAL CAMPAIGN — ATLANTA — DEATH OF MCPHERSON — EXPLANATION OF GENERAL LOGAN'S FAILURE TO RETAIN COMMAND OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE — RECONCILIATION BETWEEN SHERMAN AND LOGAN 121 CHAPTER VII BATTLES OF RESACA AND DALLAS — GENERAL LOGAN WOUNDED AGAIN — KENESAW MOUNTAIN — DEATH OF McPHERSON — LOGAN IN COMMAND — WINS THE BATTLE OF ATLANTA PASSED OVER BY SHERMAN FOR CONTINUANCE IN COMMAND OF ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE — GENERAL HOWARD SUCCEEDS — SUBSEQUENT RECONCILIATION OF SHERMAN AND LOGAN — THE CORKHILL BANQUET — POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 1864 — LOGAN TAKES THE STUMP AT LINCOLN'S REQUEST — HIS POWERFUL INFLUENCE — RE-ELECTION OF LINCOLN — ORDERED TO REPORT TO GRANT AT CITY POINT 154 CHAPTER VIII CHRISTMAS AT CARBONDALE — GENERAL LOGAN ORDERED TO RELIEVE THOMAS — BATTLE OF NASHVILLE — LOGAN MAGNANIMOUSLY RETURNS TO HIS CORPS — THE MARCH THROUGH THE CAROLINAS — GOLDSBORO AND BENTONVILLE — FALL OF PETERSBURG AND RICHMOND — ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN — Lee's surrender — LOGAN REINSTATED IN COMMAND OF ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE — GRAND REVIEW OF THE UNION ARMY AT WASHINGTON — RETURN HOME OF THE VOLUNTEERS — BIRTH OF JOHN A. LOGAN, JR. — RESIGNATION OF GENERAL LOGAN — ELECTED CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE — A

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RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE OVER THE EARLY SIXTIES — DEATH OF MY MOTHER .... 183 CHAPTER IX ORGANIZATION OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC — HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT — DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES — GENERAL LOGAN ELECTED COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF — SUBSIDIARY SOCIETIES — DISAFFECTION OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON — TRANSFER OF Booth's REMAINS TO BALTIMORE — JOHNSON'S ATTEMPT TO REMOVE STANTON — IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT — LOGAN ONE OF THE HOUSE MANAGERS — SOCIAL WASHINGTON DURING THE WINTER, 1867-8 — DICKENS'S READINGS — RECEPTION AT THE GRANTS' — ELECTION OF PRESIDENT GRANT — COUNTING THE ELECTORAL VOTE — COLFAX AND SENATOR WADE — THE WINTER OF 1 868-9 — STATE DINNERS AT THE WHITE HOUSE — ORIGIN OF DECORATION DAY DUE TO GENERAL LOGAN 214 CHAPTER X INAUGURATION OF GRANT — THE RECEPTION AND INAUGURAL BALL — CHOICE OF THE CABINET — THE CUBAN QUESTION — CLAMOR AGAINST THE MILITARY ELEMENT — BLAINE ELECTED SPEAKER — INSTANCE OF HIS MARVELLOUS MEMORY AND QUICKNESS — GENERAL LEE AT THE WHITE HOUSE — APPOINTMENT TO OFFICE OF LONGSTREET, MOSBY, AND OTHER CONFEDERATES — REFURNISHING THE WHITE HOUSE — INTIMACY BETWEEN LOGAN AND GRANT — THE RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEM — PUBLIC SCANDALS — ENORMOUS CORRESPONDENCE OF GENERAL LOGAN — SENATOR CHRISTIANCY'S MARRIAGE — CABINET MEMBERS AND THEIR WIVES 247 CHAPTER XI MOOTED REMOVAL OF THE CAPITAL TO SAINT LOUIS — IMPROVE- MENT OF WASHINGTON A RESULT OF THIS MOVEMENT — REDUCING THE ARMY TO A PEACE BASIS — SHERMAN's HOSTILITY TO Logan's measure — a congressional scandal — Logan CHECKMATES BUTLER — DEATH OF GENERAL THOMAS — HONORS TO THE MEMORY OF GENERAL RAWLINS — GENERAL LOGAN'S VICTORIOUS CAMPAIGN FOR THE SENATORSHIP AND MY SHARE IN IT — REMOVAL TO CHICAGO — THE GREAT FIRE — CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE MILITARY COMMITTEE — THE ABBOTT- RANSOM CASE — ■ WHITE HOUSE NEW YEAR'S RECEPTION, 1872 SUBSEQUENT SOCIAL FESTIVITIES — DEATH OF MRS. BELKNAP AND OF OUR ADOPTED DAUGHTER KATE LOGAN 276 CHAPTER XII PARTY OPPOSITION TO THE PRESIDENT'S RENOMINATION IN 1872 — LOGAN'S SERVICES TO GRANT IN CONGRESS — HOSTILITY OF SUMNER AND SCHURZ — THE CREDIT MOBILIER SCANDAL — ENTERTAINMENT OF THE JAPANESE EMBASSY — REPUBLICAN CONVENTION AT PHILADELPHIA — GRANT AND WILSON NOMINATED — ILLNESS OF MY FATHER — JOURNEY TO UTAH — BISHOP DUSENBERRY OF THE MORMON CHURCH — THE '72 CAMPAIGN — THE LIBERAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION — NOMINATION OF HORACE GREELEY — MR. GREELEY'S BEREAVEMENT, DEFEAT, ILLNESS, AND DEATH — GRANT's SECOND INAUGURATION — THE NEW CABINET — DEATH OF MY FATHER .... 304

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CHAPTER XIII PROSPERITY IN COLORADO — THE "MORNING STAR" MINE AND ITS FINALE — GENERAL LOGAN FROZEN OUT — THE CHICAGO STRIKES OF 1873 — OPENING OF THE "GRAND PACIFIC" HOTEL — MY NEW year's RECEPTION — OUR NEIGHBORS, THE JONESES, LEITERS, MEEKERS, BROSSES, STONES, MARSHALL FIELDS, PULLMANS, AND OTHERS — THE VIRGINIUS MASSACRE — THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA REORGANIZED — THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU INVESTIGATION — LEADERS OE THE SENATE, ANTHONY, CONK.LING, HAMLIN, CARPENTER, MORTON, CAMERON, SHERMAN, THURMAN, GORDON, ALLISON, AND OTHERS — NELLIE GRANT'S ELABORATE WEDDING AT THE WHITE HOUSE — WEDDING OF COLONEL FREDERICK D. GRANT IN CHICAGO 327 CHAPTER XIV KING KALAKAUA IN WASHINGTON — THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION AT PHILADELPHIA — PUBLICATION OF GENERAL SHERMAN'S "memoirs" — HIS CRITICISMS OF LOGAN AND BLAIR — NEW year's RECEPTION AT THE WHITE HOUSE — THE WHISKEY- RING SCANDALS — REPUBLICAN CONVENTION OF 1876 AT CINCINNATI — BLAINE's defeat and NOMINATION OF HAYES AND WHEELER — THE GRANGER MOVEMENT DEFEATS GENERAL LOGAN FOR SENATOR — JUDGE DAVID DAVIS — THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION — MARRIAGE OF OUR DAUGHTER — MRS. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, HER ADMIRABLE CHARACTER AND MANAGEMENT AS MISTRESS OF THE WHITE HOUSE — REV. DR. J. P. NEWMAN 349 CHAPTER XV GENERAL LOGAN RETURNED TO THE SENATE — STRIKING VICTORY AFTER EXCITING CAMPAIGN — RECEPTION GIVEN TO US BY THE LEGISLATURE AND CITIZENS OF SPRINGFIELD — MEMBERSHIP OF THE SENATE IN 1879 — THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN — NUMEROUS CANDIDATES — ATTACK OF LOWE, OF ALABAMA, ON GENERAL LOGAN — HIS SUBSEQUENT APOLOGY — RETURN OF GENERAL GRANT FROM HIS WORLD-TOUR — RECEPTIONS AT GALENA AND CHICAGO — BANQUET OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE — GRANT A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT — OPPOSITION OF BLAINE AND OTHERS — THE FITZ-JOHN PORTER CASE AND GENERAL LOGAN'S PART IN IT — THE ILLINOIS CONVENTION OF 1880 CONTROLLED BY LOGAN — GARFIELD's NOMINATION AT CHICAGO — GENERAL LOGAN'S LOYAL WORK IN THE FOLLOWING CAMPAIGN 371 CHAPTER XVI Inauguration of General Garfield — rupture between the administration and senator Conkling — assassination of the president — admirable character of president Arthur's entertainments — visit of French and German officers — Garfield memorial meeting of congress — campaign of 1884 — NOMINATION OF BLAINE AND LOGAN — ACTIVITY OF GENERAL LOGAN ON THE STUMP — HIS RETURN TO the senate — enthusiastic reception at San Francisco — Death of general Logan, December 26, 1886 — funeral honors paid to him — marriage of our son — I go to Europe — our stay in Berlin and subsequent European travel — a second trip abroad — death of Major John a. Logan, Jr., in the Philippines — statues of general Logan — recent activities 409 Index 453

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