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Introduction[13]
CHAPTER
I Battle of Manassas, July 21, 1861[23]
II After Manassas at Centerville[35]
III Reminiscences and Horses[45]
IV Sketches[53]
V Our National Hymn[61]
VI The Peninsula and Battle of Williamsburg, May 5, 1862[65]
VII Battle of Seven Pines, May 31, 1862[71]
VIII Battles of the Chickahominy, June 26 to July 2, 1862[76]
IX Rivalry and More Reminiscences[87]
X Second Battle of Manassas, August 29 and 30, 1862[94]
XI Battles of South Mountain (Boonsboro Gap) and Sharpsburg (Antietam), September 14 and 17, 1862[103]
XII Battle of Sharpsburg, Continued[110]
XIII Battle of Sharpsburg, Concluded[115]
XIV Our Personnel—Visitors[120]
XV The Staff[124]
XVI Events Preceding Fredericksburg[129]
XVII Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862[136]
XVIII After Fredericksburg—Reminiscences[143]
XIX To South Virginia for Supplies[150]
XX Preparing for Gettysburg[156]
XXI Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 2, 3, 1863[163]
XXII Gettysburg Aftermath[173]
XXIII In Virginia Again[179]
XXIV Longstreet to Reinforce Bragg[184]
XXV Battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863[188]
XXVI Chattanooga—Incidents[195]
XXVII The East Tennessee Campaign, November, 1863, to April, 1864[204]
XXVIII The East Tennessee Campaign, Continued[212]
XXIX At Home in Savannah—Sketches[220]
XXX Battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864[228]
XXXI Coincidences—Longstreet's Successor[240]
XXXII Battle of Spottsylvania C. H., May 10 and 12, and Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864[244]
XXXIII The siege of Petersburg June, 1864, to March, 1865[254]
XXXIV Longstreet's Return—Farewell to Lee[265]
Appendix[283]

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John W. Daniel