During this time — from the election of Lincoln in November 1860, to the death of Lyon at Wilson's Creek on the loth of August 186i — occurred all the events that I have narrated in this volume; but I remained with General Price till the last year of the war, as adjutant-general and sometimes as chief of staff, of the commands that he held, except that for brief periods I was entrusted with special duties. I left him in the summer of 1864, in order to attend a meeting of the Confederate Congress, of which I was a member, and did not return to the army.