CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I.Off to the War[15]
II.First Days in Camp[34]
III.On to Washington[49]
IV.Our First Winter Quarters[60]
V.A Grand Review[71]
VI.On Picket along the Rappahannock[76]
VII.A Mud-March and a Sham-Battle[89]
VIII.How we got a Shelling[107]
IX.In the Woods at Chancellorsville[117]
X.The First Day at Gettysburg[128]
XI.After the Battle[152]
XII.Through "Maryland, my Maryland"[159]
XIII.Pains and Penalties[171]
XIV.A Tale of a Squirrel and Three
Blind Mice		[187]
XV."The Pride of the Regiment"[201]
XVI.Around the Camp-Fire[214]
XVII.Our First Day in "the Wilderness"[221]
XVIII.A Bivouac for the Night[235]
XIX."Went down to Jericho and fell
among Thieves"		[245]
XX.In the Front at Petersburg[257]
XXI.Fun and Frolic[272]
XXII.Chiefly culinary[290]
XXIII.Hatcher's Run[300]
XXIV.Killed, Wounded, or Missing?[305]
XXV.A Winter Raid to North Carolina[314]
XXVI."Johnny comes marching Home!"[324]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Page
[Ready for the Front]Frontispiece
[Vignette]8
[ The Company starts for the War]26
[Tailpiece]48
[In Winter-Quarters]62
[ Waiting to be Reviewed by the President]72
[Tailpiece]75
[ In a Dangerous Part of his Beat]84
[ The Quartermaster's Triumph]102
[Tailpiece]106
[ General Doubleday dismounts and Sights
the Gun]		112
[Tailpiece]116
[ A Surgeon writing upon the Pommel of his
Saddle an Order for an Ambulance]		118
[ A Skirmish after a Hard Day's March]140
[ At Close Quarters the First Day at
Gettysburg]		144
[On the March to and from Gettysburg]156
[Tailpiece]158
[ "I've got Him, Boys!"]168
[Drumming Sneak-Thieves out of Camp]172
[Tailpiece]186
[Tailpiece]213
[Christmas Eve around the Camp-Fire]216
[Sick]220
[A Scene in the Field-Hospital]228
[Army Badges]236
["General Grant can't have any of
this Water!"]		242
["Andy had bought the Sorrel for
Ten Dollars"]		254
["Better git off'n dat dar Mule!"]260
[Finding a Wounded Picket in a Rifle-Pit]262
[Scene among the Rifle-Pits before
Petersburg]		266
[The Magazine where the Powder
and Shells were stored]		270
["Fall in for Hard-Tack!"]292
[The Conflict at Daybreak in the Woods
at Hatcher's Run]		304
[Wrecking the Railway]316
[The Charge on the Cakes]326
[The Welcome Home]330

THE RECOLLECTIONS
OF
A DRUMMER-BOY.