New York, May, 1911.


CONTENTS

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Chapter I[1]
Enlistment; Journey to Regiment; First Picket Duty; Raid to Fredericks Hall.
Chapter II[8]
Night after Battle of Cedar Mountain; Death of Captain Walters at Rapidan; Retreat from Rapidan; Battle at Brandy Station.
Chapter III[13]
Second Battle at Bull Run; Destruction of Seymour's Squadron; Death of Compton; A Wounded Soldier's Heroism; Fitz-John Porter's Message to Kilpatrick; Longstreet's Assault on Left of Pope's Army; To Alexandria to Refit.
Chapter IV[20]
Refitting at Ball's Cross Roads; Skirmishing around Centerville; Advance after Antietam; Soldier's Opinion on McClellan's being Superseded; Battle of Fredericksburg; Death of Bayard.
Chapter V[23]
Detailed at General Gregg's Headquarters; The Stoneman Raid.
Chapter VI[27]
Gettysburg Campaign; Battle at Brandy Station; Wounded at Stuart's Headquarters.
Chapter VII[33]
Battles at Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville.
Chapter VIII[42]
Crossing the Potomac; Scenes in Frederick and Liberty; Girls' Boarding School at New Windsor; March to Gettysburg.
Chapter IX[47]
Second and Third Days of Battle at Gettysburg; Gregg's Cavalry Engagement on the Right; Repulse of Stuart.
Chapter X[54]
Day Following the Battle at Gettysburg; Compelling Citizens to Assist in Burying the Dead; Scenes in Gettysburg; Nick Finding John Burns; Following up Lee's Army; Wounded Confederates Left Behind.
Chapter XI[58]
Return to Virginia; Crossing at Harper's Ferry; Battle at Shepherdstown; Confederate Prisoner Reporting the Condition of a Cousin in Confederate Army; Advance from Sulphur Springs to the Rapidan.
Chapter XII[62]
Transferred to General Kilpatrick's Headquarters; Battle on Retreat from Culpeper; Battle at Buckland's Mills; Granted a Furlough; Recommended for a Commission; Appointed a Second Lieutenant; Leaving General Kilpatrick.
Chapter XIII[71]
Joined 24th New York Cavalry at Auburn, N. Y.; Trip to Washington; At Camp Stoneman; March to Join Army of the Potomac; Experience at Battle of the Wilderness; First Sight of General Grant.
Chapter XIV[78]
At Spottsylvania; Finding Confederate Dead in Breastworks; Selected to Guide a Division to a Position for Night Assault; Sent to Washington for Ammunition.
Chapter XV[86]
Experience at North Anna and Cold Harbor; General Grant and Confederate Prisoner; Crossing the James; Assault on Works at Petersburg; Wounded; At Field Hospital; Journey to City Point and Seminary Hospital at Georgetown, D. C.; Removal to Dobbs Ferry; Convalescence.
Chapter XVI[96]
General D. McM. Gregg, General Kilpatrick, Colonel Henry C. Weir, General Walter C. Newberry, Colonel William C. Raulston, General L. G. Estes, General E. W. Whitaker, Captain Theodore F. Northrop.
Appendix A[103]
Appendix B[109]


ILLUSTRATIONS

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Henry C. Meyer[Frontispiece]
Corporal Henry E. Johns[6]
General Judson Kilpatrick[16]
Colonel Henry C. Weir[24]
General D. McM. Gregg[34]
General George A. Custer[48]
General E. W. Whitaker[62]
Captain Theodore F. Northrop[66]
General L. G. Estes[70]
Colonel W. C. Raulston[72]
General Walter C. Newberry[93]