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CHAPTER Vli. 



On board the * General Lyttle ' — In Washington — Up-hill work- -Senator 

 Yates — Go with Groeben to New York — Governor Fentou — Governor 

 Gilmore of New Hampshire — Return lo Washington — Victory — 

 Receive the General's commission for Salni — Living at Corvin's in 

 Georgetown — Short sketch of war events — Characteristic of General 

 Grant — The assassination of Lincoln — Attempt against Secretary 

 Seward — Impression made by that catastrophe — The Funeral — 

 Andrew Johnson, the new President — Mr. Field, Assistant Secretary 

 of ^he Treasury — Returning to the war — Felix in Dalton, Georgia — 

 Arrival in Chattanooga — No trains — Get a locomotive — Riding on the 

 cow-catcher — A journey from Dalton to Cleveland — A fearful night in 

 the woods — Dangers of railway travelling — A narrow escape — I get a 

 baby of my sister's — Starting for Atlanta, Georgia — State of the 

 country — Our life in Atlanta — Leaving for Savannah — Fort Pulaski— 

 An excursion to Augusta — Dangers of the Savannah rivers — Ova- 

 steamer, the ' Fanny Lehr,' running on a snag — Sticking in the mud — 

 The alligators — Assistance arriving — Continue our journey — Coming 

 up with the 'Robert Lehr,' \thich strikes a snag and goes down — ■ 

 Returning to Savannah— End of the war — Going via Baltimore to 

 Washington — Living in Georgetown at Corvin's — Forming new plans 

 — Salm resolves to go to Mexico — Groeben is to go with him — I re- 

 main in Washington — Take a house in that city together with the 

 Corvins — Our life — Excursions — Colonel Moore — Leaving for Mexico 

 — Good-bye to President Johnson — On board the ' Manhattan ' — 

 Father Fisher — Arrival in liavannah — Surprise — Meeting balm — 

 Arrival in Vera Cruz. 



My husband accompanied me as far as Nashville, where we 

 met General Steedman and Colonel von Schrader, with his 

 wife. As I had to attend to some business connected with 

 my hospital, I stayed over Sunday in Nashville, and went with 

 General Steedman to the Sanitary Commission, from whom I 

 got all I wanted. On Tuesday, February 28th, I started for 

 Louisville, where I had to stay two days, feeling not well at all. 



