CONTENTS
[Introduction by Capt. Robert E. Lee, Jr]
[Introduction by Henry St. George Tucker ]
- [—Washington College—Lexington—Virginia Military Institute ]
- [—Entering the Service—My First Battle—Battle of Kernstown ]
- [—The Retreat—Cedar Creek—General Ashby—Skirmishes—McGaheysville ]
- [—Swift Run Gap—Reorganization of the Battery—Wading in the Mud—Crossing and Recrossing the Blue Ridge—Battle of McDowell—Return to the Valley ]
- [—Bridgewater—Luray Valley—Front Royal—Following General Banks—Night March—Battle of Winchester—Banks's Retreat ]
- [—Capturing Federal Cavalry—Charlestown—Extraordinary March ]
- [—General Jackson Narrowly Escapes Being Captured at Port Republic—Contest Between Confederates and Federals for Bridge over Shenandoah ]
- [—Battle of Port Republic]
- [—From Brown's Gap to Staunton—From Staunton to Richmond—Cold Harbor—General Lee Visits His Son in the Battery ]
- [—General Jackson Compliments the Battery—Malvern Hill—My Visit to Richmond ]
- [—From Richmond to Gordonsville—Battle of Cedar Run—Death of General Winder—Deserters Shot—Cross the Rappahannock ]
- [—Capture of Railroad Trains at Manassas Junction—Battle with Taylor's New Jersey Brigade—Night March by Light of Burning Cars]
- [—Circuitous Night March—First Day of Second Manassas—Arrival of Longstreet's Corps ]
- [—The Second Battle of Manassas—Incidents and Scenes on the Battlefield ]
- [—Battle of Chantilly—Leesburg—Crossing the Potomac ]
- [—Maryland—My Day in Frederick City]
- [—Return to Virginia—Investment and Capture of Harper's Ferry ]
- [—Into Maryland Again—Battle of Sharpsburg—Wounded—Return to Winchester—Home]
- [—Return to Army—In Winter-quarters Near Port Royal ]
- [—Second Battle of Fredericksburg—Chancellorsville—Wounding and Death of Stonewall Jackson ]
- [—Opening of Campaign of 1863—Crossing to the Valley—Battle at Winchester with Milroy—Crossing the Potomac ]
- [—On the Way to Gettysburg—Battle of Gettysburg—Retreat. ]
- [—At "The Bower"—Return to Orange County, Virginia—Blue Run Church—Bristow Station—Rappahannock Bridge—Supplementing Camp Rations]
- [—Battle of Mine Run—March to Frederick's Hall—Winter-quarters—Social Affairs—Again to the Front—Narrow Escape from Capture by General Dahlgren—Furloughs—Cadets Return from New Market—Spottsylvania and the Wilderness—Return to Army at Hanover Junction—Panic at Night ]
- [—Second Cold Harbor—Wounded—Return Home—Refugeeing from Hunter ]
- [—Personal Mention of Officers and Men—Rockbridge Artillery—Second Rockbridge Artillery ]
- [—Oakland—Return to Camp—Off Duty Again—The Race from New Market to Fort Gilmore—Attack on Fort Harrison—Winter-quarters on the Lines—Visits to Richmond ]
- [—Evacuation of Richmond—Passing Through Richmond by Night—The Retreat—Battle of Sailor's Creek—Battle of Cumberland Church]
- [—Appomattox ]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[General "Stonewall" Jackson ]
[Captain William T. Poague, April, 1862—April, 1863]
[Gun from which was fired the first hostile cannon-shot in the Valley of Virginia ]
[Robert A. Gibson ]
[Edward A. Moore, March, 1862 ]
[John M. Brown (war-time portrait) ]
[William M. Willson (Corporal) ]
[W. S. McClintic ]
[D. Gardiner Tyler]
[R. T. Barton ]
[B. C. M. Friend ]
[Edward A. Moore, February, 1907]
[Edward H. Hyde (Color-bearer) ]
[Randolph Fairfax ]
[Robert Frazer ]
[John M. Brown ]
[Fac-simile of parole signed by General Pendleton ]
PREFACE
More than thirty years ago, at the solicitation of my kinsman, H. C. McDowell, of Kentucky, I undertook to write a sketch of my war experience. McDowell was a major in the Federal Army during the civil war, and with eleven first cousins, including Gen. Irvin McDowell, fought against the same number of first cousins in the Confederate Army. Various interruptions prevented the completion of my work at that time. More recently, after despairing of the hope that some more capable member of my old command, the Rockbridge Artillery, would not allow its history to pass into oblivion, I resumed the task, and now present this volume as the only published record of that company, celebrated as it was even in that matchless body of men, the Army of Northern Virginia.
E. A. M.