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Mohun

by John Esten Cooke

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  1. 1Prologue
  2. 2Book I — Gettysburg
  3. 3II. — How I Became a Member of General Stuart’s Staff
  4. 4III. — Blue and Gray Phantoms
  5. 5IV. — Mohun and His Prisoner
  6. 6V. — Stuart
  7. 7VI. — Stuart’s Instinct
  8. 8VII. — The Ball Before the Battle
  9. 9VIII. — Fleetwood
  10. 10IX. — Mohun Faints at the Right Moment
  11. 11X. — The Slim Animal
  12. 12XI. — Nighthawk
  13. 13XII. — How Stuart Fell Back
  14. 14XIV. — Mosby Comes to Stuart’s Assistance
  15. 15XV. — The Supper Near Bucklands
  16. 16XVI. — An Honest Fop
  17. 17XVII. — Stuart Grazes Capture
  18. 18XVIII. — Drowsyland
  19. 19XIX. — Carlisle by Firelight
  20. 20XX. — The House Between Carlisle and Gettysburg
  21. 21XXI. — Fallen
  22. 22XXII. — Darke and Mohun
  23. 23XXIII. — Gettysburg
  24. 24XXIV. — The Army
  25. 25XXV. — The Wrestle for Round Top Hill
  26. 26XXVI. — The Charge of the Virginians
  27. 27XXVII. — The Great Moment of a Great Life
  28. 28XXVIII. — Unshaken
  29. 29Book II. — The Flower of Cavaliers
  30. 30II. — Back to the Rapidan
  31. 31III. — The Opening of the Hunt
  32. 32IV. — The Game A-Foot
  33. 33V. — The Chase
  34. 34VI. — The Ruse
  35. 35VII. — Stuart Caught in the Trap
  36. 36VIII. — General Meade’s “Eye-Teeth”
  37. 37IX. — What the Author Has Omitted
  38. 38X. — I Fall a Victim to Tom’s Ill-Luck
  39. 39XI. — I Overhear a Singular Conversation
  40. 40XII. — The Buckland Races
  41. 41XIII. — Two Scenes in December, 1863
  42. 42XIV. — Stuart’s Winter Quarters
  43. 43XV. — Lee’s “Ragged Regiments”
  44. 44XVI. — Hammer and Rapier
  45. 45XVII. — Fort Delaware
  46. 46XVIII. — The Uniform
  47. 47XIX. — The Note
  48. 48XX. — General Grant’s Private Order
  49. 49XXI. — “Virginia Expects Every Man to Do His Duty!”
  50. 50XXII. — What Occurred at Warrenton
  51. 51XXIII. — The Grave of Achmed
  52. 52XXIV. — A Night Bird
  53. 53XXV. — The Appointment
  54. 54XXVI. — Stuart Sings
  55. 55XXVII. — Mohun Rides
  56. 56XXVIII. — The Spy
  57. 57XXIX. — The Paper
  58. 58XXX. — Grant Strikes His First Blow
  59. 59XXXI. — The Report
  60. 60XXXII. — The Unseen Death
  61. 61XXXIII. — Breathed and His Gun
  62. 62XXXIV. — My Last Ride With Stuart
  63. 63XXXV. — “Soon With Angels I’ll Be Marching”
  64. 64XXXVI. — Yellow Tavern, May 11, 1864
  65. 65Book III. — Behind the Scenes
  66. 66II. — The “Doomed City”
  67. 67III. — I Dine With Mr. Blocque
  68. 68IV. — John M. Daniel
  69. 69V. — The Editor in His Sanctum
  70. 70VI. — An Editorial in the Examiner
  71. 71VII. — Under the Crossed Swords
  72. 72VIII. — Mr. X
  73. 73IX. — “Send Me a Copy — In Canada!”
  74. 74X. — The Way the Money Went
  75. 75XI. — The Pass
  76. 76XII. — The Grave of Stuart
  77. 77XIII. — The Cedars
  78. 78XIV. — The Situation
  79. 79XV. — Mohun Again
  80. 80XVI. — “Five Forks”
  81. 81XVII. — General Davenant
  82. 82XVIII. — Two Men and a Woman
  83. 83XIX. — The Murder
  84. 84XX. — The Knife
  85. 85XXI. — The Chain of Evidence
  86. 86XXII. — The Trial
  87. 87XXIII. — What the Letter Contained
  88. 88XXIV. — “Blood”
  89. 89XXV. — The Blue Serpent
  90. 90XXVI. — The House Near Monk’s Neck, and Its Owner
  91. 91XXVII. — Starvation
  92. 92XXVIII. — Birds of Prey
  93. 93XXIX. — Darke’s Past Life
  94. 94XXX. — Stabbed “Not Murdered”
  95. 95XXXI. — The Two Papers
  96. 96XXXII. — A Pistol-Shot
  97. 97XXXIII. — Preston Hampton
  98. 98XXXIV. — I Am Captured
  99. 99XXXV. — Face to Face
  100. 100XXXVI. — The Curse
  101. 101Book IV. — The Phantoms
  102. 102II. — Nightmare
  103. 103III. — Lee’s Miserables
  104. 104IV. — The Blandford Ruins
  105. 105V. — Les Fortunés
  106. 106VI. — On the Banks of the Rowanty
  107. 107VII. — The Stuart Horse Artillery
  108. 108VIII. — “Charge! Stuart! Pay Off Ashby’s Score!”
  109. 109IX. — Mohun — His Third Phase
  110. 110X. — Amanda
  111. 111XI. — Deep Under Deep
  112. 112XII. — How the Moment at Last Came
  113. 113XIII. — Fonthill
  114. 114XIV. — “Lord of Himself, That Heritage of Woe”
  115. 115XV. — The Storm
  116. 116Act I
  117. 117XVII. — The Will
  118. 118XVIII. — The Marriage
  119. 119XIX. — Wedding Arrangements
  120. 120XX. — The Cup of Tea
  121. 121XXI. — The Foils
  122. 122XXII. — While Waiting for Midnight
  123. 123XXIII. — The Result of the Signal
  124. 124XXIV. — What Took Place in Fifty Minutes
  125. 125XXV. — Going to Rejoin Mortimer
  126. 126XXVI. — Afterward
  127. 127XXVII. — Mohun Terminates His Narrative
  128. 128Book V — The Dead Go Fast
  129. 129II. — The Men Who Ruined the Confederacy
  130. 130III. — My Last Visit to John M. Daniel
  131. 131IV. — Garroted
  132. 132V. — The Cloaked Woman
  133. 133VI. — The Heart of a Statesman
  134. 134VII. — Secret Service
  135. 135VIII. — By Flag-of-Truce Boat
  136. 136IX. — To and Fro in the Spring of ‘65
  137. 137X. — Aegri Somnia — March, 1865
  138. 138XI. — I Visit General Fitzhugh Lee
  139. 139XII. — By a Fire in the Woods
  140. 140XIII. — Drinking Tea Under Difficulties
  141. 141XIV. — Mr. Alibi
  142. 142XV. — From Five Forks to Petersburg
  143. 143XVI. — Lee’s Last Great Blow
  144. 144XVII. — The Wrestle for the White Oak Road
  145. 145XVIII. — The Bridegroom
  146. 146XIX. — The Ceremony
  147. 147XX. — What Occurred at “Five Forks,” on the Night of March 31, 1865
  148. 148XXI. — Five Forks
  149. 149XXII. — “The Line Has Been Stretched Until It Has Broken, Colonel”
  150. 150XXIII. — What I Saw From the Grave of Stuart
  151. 151XXIV. — The Retreat
  152. 152XXV. — Hunted Down
  153. 153XXVI. — The Last Council of War of the Army of Northern Virginia
  154. 154XXVII. — The Night Before the Surrender
  155. 155XXVIII. — The Last Charge of the Old Guard
  156. 156XXIX. — The Surrender
  157. 157Epilogue

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