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Morgan, James Morris. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917 Morgan, James Morris. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. CHAPTER I Childhood — "Billy Bowlegs" — The Choctaws — Blowing upland burning of the steamboat Princess — Charloe and Katish — Throwing the lasso — Buck-jumpers 1 CHAPTER II Unlucky in love — The home of a Louisiana aristocrat — Hospitality and lengthy visits — The sugar-house — Appointed a midshipman — The only Southern man who could not whip ten Yankees— Religious mania — Fortress Monroe — Mexican pulque . 11 CHAPTER III Annapolis — "Old Ironsides" — The habit of command — Show remarkable leniency toward the midshipman's hereditary enemies, the commandant and lieutenants — The "Brood of the Constitution" — "Bill Pip," our first hero — Other heroes — Skating on thin ice — The bilged — Secession 21 CHAPTER IV Out of the United States Navy — Complete disguise — Captain Maynadier, U.S.A. — Passing through the Union and Confederate lines — Senator Wigfall and President Andrew Johnson — Montgomery, Alabama — President Jefferson Davis and Judah P. Benjamin — Tender services and sword to the Confederacy — Declined with thanks — The "Marseillaise" 34 CHAPTER V Arrive in New Orleans — Brother Harry killed next morning in a duel — Home- coming in Baton Rouge 41 CHAPTER VI Volunteers — Lonely — Captain Booth, late U.S.A., finds use for me — Pensacola — " Give them a little more grape, Captain Bragg " 44 CHAPTER VII The sloop-of-war McRae arrives at Baton Rouge — Receive warrant as a midshipman and ordered to the McRae — Fail to get through the blockade — Attack on Federal fleet at the Head of the Passes — Heroes until a newspaper " Mahan " discovered that we ought to have towed the whole Federal fleet up to New Orleans in triumph 51 CHAPTER VIII The McRae made flagship of the Mississippi flotilla — Commodore Hollins — Appointed aide-de-camp to the commodore — Island No. 10 — New Madrid — The Swamp Fox of Missouri — Masked batteries — Wanted to challenge a major — U.S. ironclads pass Island No. 10 — Stung — New Madrid and Island No. 10 evacuated — "Savez" Read administers a lesson in discipline to the volunteers — Gunboats pretty badly cut up by shore bat- teries — Go back to New Orleans — Fort Jackson under heavy bombardment from Porter's mortar fleet — Commodore Hollins relieved from his command — Farragut passes the forts — Death of Captain Huger and sinking of the McRae 60 CHAPTER IX Farragut's fleet at New Orleans — Mob threatens to kill his officers who demand the surrender of the city — Farragut threatens to destroy the city if a hair of their heads is hurt — Pierre Soule's hypnotic fore-finger saves the critical situation — I take to the swamp — The "Irreconcilable Home Guard" — Reach General Lovell's camp at Amite — Reach Norfolk in time for the evacuation — Richmond — The battle between the U.S. Ironclads Galena, Monitor, 1 and Naugatuck and Drewry's Bluff batteries — Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks) — Seven Days' Battle . 75 CHAPTER X Charleston — Commodore Ingraham — CS. Ironclad Chicora — The looting of my home in Baton Rouge — George Hollins dies of yellow fever — The Honorable George A. Trenholm — Naval officers " never unbutton their coats " — Ordered abroad . 89 CHAPTER XI Run through the U.S. blockading fleet — Out of our reckoning — Bermuda — Blockade-runners throw money into the street — Commodore Wilkes's famous ship San Jacinto gives us a scare — Halifax — Sail for England in company with some of Her Majesty's Life Guardsmen 98 CHAPTER XII Liverpool — London — Visit " Hill Morton," near Rugby — Ordered to the C.S.S. Alexandra — Snubbed — Ordered to Paris — Ordered to London — Birthday properly celebrated — Damn the Marquis of Westminster and lose my only friend — Meet several Mr. Grigsons 106 CHAPTER XIII White Haven — The active tug Alar — Meet the Japan, which turns out to be the Confederate cruiser Georgia — Ushant Island — Break neutrality laws, and away to sea — Hoist Confederate flag, but don't use it much — Capture our first prize, the clipper ship Dictator — Treatment of prisoners — Cape Verde Islands — Narrow escape from U.S.S. Mohican — Crew of Dictator ship with us — Chasing ships 113 CHAPTER XIV The Doldrums — Water-spouts — Bahia — Meet the Alabama — Changing of the Confederate flag — Corsairos — Brazilian ball — Midshipman Anderson makes a pillow out of Captain Semmes — U.S.S. Niagara and Mohican on our trail — " Does he want his pretty paint spoiled? " — Refused permission to depart after 4 P.M. — Brazilian battery fires one shot as we pass out . .124 CHAPTER XV "Tempest in a teapot" — Capture clipper ship George Griswold of New York — Burn bark Good Hope of Boston — Funeral at sea — Bark Seaver goes to assistance of the Good Hope and is captured — Transfer prisoners to the Seaver 133 CHAPTER XVI Barren island of Trinidad — The natural monument — Surf five hundred feet high — Battle in the air between frigate bird and sailor lad — Capture of splendid ship Constitution loaded with coal and missionaries — Georgia, by mistake, fires into the Constitution — Capture of ship City of Bath — Despoiled of $16,000 of our hard-earned wealth by trick of skipper's wife — Learn of the death of "Stonewall" Jackson — The Cape of Good Hope . 140 CHAPTER XVII Simon's Town — The Alabama had just sailed from the port — Two of the Georgia's engineers, the boatswain, gunner, and several seamen get "cold feet" and leave us — Our first lieutenant, Mr. Chapman, ordered to Europe — Visit the city of Cape Town — Skippers of burned ships not friendly and disposed to start a rough-house — H. M. troopship Himalaya — "Dixie" — Exciting experience with Malay fishermen — Albatross and Cape 2 pigeons — Meet the tea fleet — Also the U.S.S. Vanderbilt — Myriads of fish follow the Georgia making the ocean at night appear to be in flames 147 CHAPTER XVIII The prize Bold Hunter, abandoned and on fire, runs down and seriously damages the Georgia — Mirage at night — Peak of Teneriffe — Santa Cruz — Battle with a Frenchman — Rescue French brig Diligente — Captain Maury ill — Sailors get at the spirit- room — Mutiny 156 CHAPTER XIX Cherbourg — Letters from home tell of the deaths of my two brothers, captains in Stonewall Jackson's corps — French fleet arrives to keep us in order — Great storm and loss of flagship's launch and crew — Impressive military pageant at funeral — Captain Maury relieved from the command of the Georgia. The C.S.S. Rappahannock — Kearsarge and Tuscarora waiting for us outside . .165 CHAPTER XX Leave Cherbourg — Storm off Cape Trafalgar — Coast of Morocco — Anchor in the open sea near the Great Desert — Caravans — Moors bring fish — Ancient Moor swims to the ship — We return visits and are kicked into the sea — We bombard the troglodytes — Give up hope that the Rappahannock will meet us — Weigh anchor and have a narrow escape from shipwreck and falling into the hands of the Moors 172 CHAPTER XXI Bordeaux — U.S.S. Niagara and Sacramento wait outside for us — Two fine sloops-of-war intended for the Confederacy lay near, but beyond our reach — Escape from the United States men-of-war — Liverpool — A hero at last — Georgia put out of commission — Georgia captured by U.S.S. Niagara — Last of the Georgia — Men-of-war, privateers, and pirates 180 CHAPTER XXII Paris — Alabama sunk by Kearsarge — Havre — Southampton — Ordered to return to the Confederacy — Halifax — Sail for Bermuda and passengers mistake us for pirates — St. George's, Bermuda — Take passage in the blockade-runner Lillian — Chased by U.S.S. Shenandoah and have narrow escape running through blockading fleet off Wilmington 187 CHAPTER XXIII Shells dropping in the grass-grown streets of Charleston, South Carolina — Mr. Trenholm is Secretary of the Confederate Treasury — Columbia — Mr. Trenholm's beautiful villa — Go to Richmond and ask the millionaire Secretary for the hand of his daughter — Mrs. Trenholm calls on Mrs. (?) Stephens 197 CHAPTER XXIV "Pride goeth before a fall" — Humiliated and sent to school — A realistic war college — Call a commander " My man," and order him forward — Assault on Fort Harrison — General Lee appears on the battle-field — Repulsed — I prove to be something of a sprinter 204 CHAPTER XXV I finally become a passed midshipman — Battery Semmes — The Dutch Gap Canal — Mortar pits and rifle pits' — The lookout tower — Trading with the enemy — Pickett's famous division charges a rabbit — A shell from a monitor destroys my log hut — Good marksmanship — An unexploded shell — General Lee inspects battery — Costly result of order to " give him a shot in fifteen minutes ' ' — Demonstration against City Point — Confed- erate 3 ironclads badly hammered — "Savez" Read cuts boom across the river — A thunderous night 212 CHAPTER XXVI The Confederate "White House" — President Davis gives an impromptu lecture on bridle bits — Letter of Mrs. Jefferson Davis denying truth of anecdote relating to President Buchanan, Mrs. Joseph E. Johnston, and herself — The Southern soldiers and girls dance, flirt, and marry, oblivious of the signs that the "debacle" draws near 220 CHAPTER XXVII Ordered to accompany Mrs. Davis and party south — No Pullman cars in those days — President Davis bids his family good-bye —Insolent deserters insult Mrs. Davis at Charlotte, North Carolina — A Hebrew gentleman gives her shelter — Midshipmen guarding the Confederacy's gold escort her to Abbeville, South Carolina — President Davis and his Cabinet at Abbeville . 228 CHAPTER XXVIII President Davis departs from Abbeville — I carry communication to General Fry at Augusta, Georgia — United States troops occupy Abbeville. We bury the silver chests — Paroled at Washington, Georgia — Accompany Mr. Trenholm to Columbia, where he buys a home — Mr. Wagner, of Fraser, Trenholm & Co., pays to avoid arrest in Charleston, and Mr. Trenholm is arrested in Columbia — Placed in the common jail — Mrs. King hides the gold under the Federal commander's nose — General Gillmore, U.S.A., treats Mr.
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