XXII. Captain Colburne re-enforces the Ravenels in Time to aid them in running away 303
XXIII. Captain Colburne covers the Retreat of the Southern Labor Organization 319
XXIV. A desperate Attack and a successful Defense 333
XXV. Domestic Happiness in spite of adverse Circumstances 346
XXVI. Captain Colburne describes Camp and Field Life 360
XXVII. Colonel Carter makes an Astronomical Expedition with a dangerous Fellow-traveler 371
XXVIII. The Colonel continues to be led into Temptation 385
XXIX. Lillie reaches the Apotheosis of Womanhood 401
XXX. Colonel Carter commits his first ungentlemanly Action 414
XXXI. A Torture which might have been spared 427
XXXIII. Lillie devotes herself entirely to the Rising Generation 459
XXXIV. Lillie's Attention is recalled to the Risen Generation 473
XXXV. Captain Colburne as Mr. Colburne 489
MR. EDWARD COLBURNE BECOMES ACQUAINTED WITH MISS LILLIE RAVENEL.
It was shortly after the capitulation of loyal Fort Sumter to rebellious South Carolina that Mr. Edward Colburne of New Boston made the acquaintance of Miss Lillie Ravenel of New Orleans.
An obscure American author remarks in one of his rejected articles, (which he had the kindness to read to me from the manuscript) that every great historical event reverberates in a very remarkable manner through the fortunes of a multitude of private and even secluded individuals. No volcanic eruption rends a mountain without stirring the existence of the mountain's mice. It was unquestionably the southern rebellion which brought Miss Ravenel and Mr. Colburne into interesting juxtaposition. But for this gigantic political upturning it is probable that the young lady would never have visited New Boston where the young gentleman then lived, or, visiting it and meeting him there, would have been a person of no necessary importance in his eyes. But how could a most loyal, warm-hearted youth fail to be interested in a pretty and intelligent girl who was exiled from her home because her father would not be a rebel?
New Boston, by the way, is the capital city of the little Yankee State of Barataria. I ask pardon for this geographical impertinence of introducing a seventh State into New England, and solemnly affirm that I do not mean to disturb thereby the congressional balance of the republic. I make the arrangement with no political object, but solely for my private convenience, so that I may tell my story freely without being accused of misrepresenting this private individual, or insulting that public functionary, or burlesquing any self-satisfied community. Like Sancho Panza's famous island of the same name, Barataria was surrounded by land, at least to a much greater extent than most islands.
