THE FALL OF 1861.
Position of Affairs. -- Disaster at Ball's Bluff. -- The News
in Washington. -- How President Lincoln received it. -- His
tenderness of Heart. -- Mr. Lincoln in his Springfield Home. --
His Temperance Principles. -- Poolsville. -- Colonel Baker's
Body. -- Slavery in Western Maryland. -- Visit to Eastern
Maryland. -- The "White Horse." -- Character of the Country. --
Our Host at Pamunkey. -- His Family. -- Visit to Annapolis. --
Aristocratic Pride. -- Secession in Washington. -- The Spirit
of Slavery in the Army. -- The Hutchinson Family and General
McClellan. -- Whittier's "Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott." --
Major Gould and his Scout. -- A Rebel Minister. -- Washington
Jail and its Inmates. -- Close of the Year. 30