. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . affect your interests, some one said to him inquiringly. I am ruined, voila tout / was the rejoinder—and this was soon confirmed. This debonair little gentleman was one of the greatest favorites of our warsociety in Richmond. His cheerfulness, his wit, his exquisite courtesy, madehim friends everywhere; and although his nicety of dress, after the patternof the boulevardier fini of Paris, was the subject of much wonderment to thepopulace when he first appeared upon the streets, it
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . affect your interests, some one said to him inquiringly. I am ruined, voila tout / was the rejoinder—and this was soon confirmed. This debonair little gentleman was one of the greatest favorites of our warsociety in Richmond. His cheerfulness, his wit, his exquisite courtesy, madehim friends everywhere; and although his nicety of dress, after the patternof the boulevardier fini of Paris, was the subject of much wonderment to thepopulace when he first appeared upon the streets, it did not prevent him fromjoining the volunteers before Richmond when occasion called, and roughing itin the trenches like a veteran. His cheerful endurance of hardship during afreezing winter of camp life became a proverb in the army later in the siege. For a time nothing was talked of but the capture of New Orleans. Of themidshipman, my brother, we heard that on the day previous to the taking ofthe forts, after several days bombardment by the United States fleet under VOL. II. 29 442 RICHMOND SCENES IN RICHMOND FROM THE MANCHESTER SIDE OF THE JAMES. Flag-Officer Farragut, he had been sent in charge of ordnance and desertersto a Confederate vessel in the river; that Lieutenant R— -, a friend of his, on the way to report at Fort Jackson during the hot shelling, had invited thelad to accompany him by way of a pleasure trip ; that while they were cross-ing the moat around Fort Jackson, in a canoe, and under heavy fire, a thir-teen-inch mortar-shell bad struck the water near, half filling their craft; and that, after watching the fire from this point for an hour, C had pulled back again alone, against the Mississippi current, under fire for a mile and ahalf of the way—passing an astonished alligator who had been hit on thehead by a piece of shell and was dying under protest. Thus ended a tripalluded to by C twenty years later as an example of juvenile foolhardiness. Aboar
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