| [CHAPTER I] |
| Learning to be a Soldier | [9] |
| Leaving Camp Lincoln for the front. At Baltimore, Maryland. Cantaloupes and Peaches. Annapolis, Maryland. Chesapeake Bayoysters. Assisting negroes to escape. Doing picket duty on the railroad. A Negro husking. Chaplain Ball arrives from Massachusetts.Assigned to the 2d Brigade, 2d Division, 9th Army Corps. |
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| [CHAPTER II] |
| The North Carolina Campaign | [27] |
| On shipbound. Burial at sea. At Hatteras Inlet. Battle of Roanoke Island. Battle of Newbern. Reading Johnnies’ loveletters. Athletics. Battle of Camden. Went to the relief of the 2d Maryland. |
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| [CHAPTER III] |
| In Virginia under General Pope | [53] |
| A ride in the Confederate doctor’s “One horse Chaise.” Living off the country. Learning the distance to GermaniaFord. The Second Battle of Bull Run. The Battle of Chantilly. |
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| [CHAPTER IV] |
| With McClellan in Maryland | [83] |
| The Barbara Fretchie Incident. The Battle of South Mountain. Death of General Reno. The Battle of Antietam. Clara Barton.President Lincoln visits the army. Visited a farmhouse very near a Confederate Camp. |
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| [CHAPTER V] |
| The Fredericksburg Campaign | [101] |
| A hard race for a pig. Chaplain Ball returns home. Picket duty along the river. The Battle of Fredericksburg. Burying the dead.Christmas revels with the Confederates. A band of horn-blowers. A raid on the sutler. A costume ball at Hotel de Ville. |
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| [CHAPTER VI] |
| Playing Soldier in Kentucky | [127] |
| Our breakfast at Baltimore. The trip west. The Reception at Mt. Sterling. Moved into the town. |
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| [CHAPTER VII] |
| The Campaign in Tennessee | [137] |
| We crossed the Cumberland Range. The patient mule. Seeing a railroad engine with a train of cars make a dive. The siege ofKnoxville. Will you lend me my Nigger Colonel. Re-enlistment. Recrossed the Mountains, returning to Kentucky on the way home, on ourre-enlistment furlough. |
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| [CHAPTER VIII] |
| Home on a Re-enlistment Furlough | [155] |
| The trip home. Reception at Worcester. The Social Whirl. We returned to Annapolis. |
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| [CHAPTER IX] |
| With Grant in Virginia | [159] |
| The Battle of the Wilderness. The Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse. Johnnies caught un-dressed. The Battle of Bethseda Church.The Johnnie who wanted to see the sun rise. Life in the trenches during the siege of Petersburg. Wounded. |
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| [CHAPTER X] |
| Life in the Hospital | [182] |
| That ride in the ambulance. Emory Hospital. The woman with my Mother’s name. The dreadful death rate. PresidentLincoln’s Second Inauguration. Booth’s Ride. Doing clerical work in Philadelphia. Discharged. |