TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained: for example, breast-work, breastworks; gunboat, gun-boats; pic-nic; grewsome; trowsers; tragical; Hayti; rascality.
[Pg 98:] ‘in the caisons’ replaced by ‘in the caissons’.
[Pg 123:] ‘on a reconnoissance’ replaced by ‘on a reconnaissance’.
[Pg 123:] ‘be the heighth’ replaced by ‘be the height’.
[Pg 147:] Chapter heading ‘XXIII’ replaced by ‘XXXIII’.
[Pg 172:] ‘in the autum’ replaced by ‘in the autumn’.
[Pg 178:] ‘Spottsylvania C. H.’ replaced by ‘Spotsylvania C. H.’.