CHAPTER XVII.
IN MEMPHIS AND UNDER THE FLAG.
Jeff.

Thompson and his Predictions .-- A Cry of Indignation .-- Memphis Humiliated .-- The Journalists in the Battle .-- The Surrender .-- A Fine Point of Law and Honor .-- Going on Shore .-- An Enraged Secessionist .-- A Dangerous Enterprise .-- Memphis and her Antecedents .-- Her Loyalty .-- An Amusing Incident .-- How the Natives learned of the Capture of Fort Donelson .-- The Last Ditch .-- A Farmer-Abolitionist .-- Disloyalty among the Women.--"Blessings in Disguise."-- An American Mark Tapley..