Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword by John Y. Simon Acknowledgments Introduction
Part I. Missouri in 1861
Chapter 1 The Rush to the Ranks Chapter 2 An Unpleasant Page of History Chapter 3 Quiet and Good Order Are of All Things Desirable
Part II. New Madrid and Island No. 10
Chapter 4 The Conduct of the Troops Was Splendid
Part III. The Siege of Corinth Chapter 5 We Sauntered Along Slowly Chapter 6 Confederate Generals at Corinth Chapter 7 Federal Generals at Corinth Chapter 8 We Frittered Away Our Strength
Part IV. The Second Bull Run Campaign Chapter 9 Summoned East: I Was Most Reluctant to Leave Chapter 10 The Battle of Cedar Mountain: Always a Source of Regret Chapter 11 Leave Pope to Get Out of His Scrape
Part V. Miscellaneous Recollections Chapter 12 Abraham Lincoln Chapter 13 The Mexican War and Washington in 1861
Chapter 14 Prominent Confederates Chapter 15 West Pointers to the Front
Appendix A Postwar Correspondence between Pope and the Comte de Paris Pertaining to the Second Bull Run Campaign Appendix B Pope's Memoirs in the National Tribune
Notes Index
Maps Northern Missouri in 1861
New Madrid and Island No. 10
Northern Virginia in 1862
Illustrations Brigadier General John Pope, early 1862 / frontispiece Brigadier General John Pope, a postwar image