PRESS OF Fleet-McGinley Co. BALTIMORE Copyright, 1908 By L.W. HOPKINS Baltimore...

"Life is the mirror of the king and slave, 'Tis just what you are and do. Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you." I never thought that I should be guilty of writing a book. I did not, however, do this with malice aforethought. My son is responsible for whatever sin I may have committed in presenting this to the public. He and I have been good friends ever since we became acquainted, and he has always insisted upon my telling him all that I know. When he was

Loudoun County on the Potomac—John Brown's Raid—War Talk Among the Schoolboys—The Slave and His Master—Election of Lincoln—Secession —Schoolboys Preparing for the Coming Conflict—Firing on Fort Sumter—Union Army Crossing the Potomac....

Confederates Concentrating at Manassas—First Battle—The Wounded Horse—Rout of the Union Army—The Losses....

Long Rest—Each Side Recruiting Their Armies—McClellan in Command—His March on Richmond by the Way of the James River—Jackson's Brilliant Valley Campaign—The Battles Around Richmond—Seven Pines—Mechanicsville —Beaver Dam—Gaines' Mill—Fair Oaks—The Wounding of Gen. Jos. E. Johnston—McClellan's Defeat—The Spoils of the Battle....

The Battle of Cedar Run—Jackson's Flank Movement—McClellan Moves His Army Back to Washington—Second Battle of Manassas—The Defeat of Pope—His Retreat to the Defenses of Washington—The Captured Stores and Losses on Both Sides—Lee Crosses the Potomac Into Maryland—The Stragglers of Lee's Army—A Dinner Party—The Capture of Harper's Ferry—Battle of Antietam—Result of the Battle—Lee Recrosses the Potomac—Lee in a Trap....

McClellan Relieved of His Command—Burnside Commands the Union Army—The Two Armies at Fredericksburg—The Blue Ridge Mountain—The Author a Prisoner—Battle of Fredericksburg—Burnside's Defeat—Losses on Both Sides—The Armies in Winter Quarters—How They Spent the Winter—Company Q's Escapade—Raid Into West Virginia—Burnside Relieved—Hooker in Command—Hooker Crossing the Rappahannock—Jackson's Successful Flank Movement—His Mortal Wound—Hooker's Defeat—He Recrosses the River—Losses on Both Sides—Stonewa

Ninth of June at Brandy Station—Lee's Army En Route for Gettysburg—See Map—Stuart's March Around the Union Army—Lee Crosses the Potomac—The Union Army in a Parallel Line With Lee's—Crosses the Potomac Below Harper's Ferry—Hooker Relieved—Meade in Command of the Union Army—The Battle of Gettysburg—Lee's First Defeat—His Retreat—The Midnight's Thunder Storm—His Five Days' Rest on the North Bank of the Potomac—He Recrosses the River....

Both Armies Marching Back to the Rappahannock—Short Rest—Meade's Advance—Lee Retires to the Rapidan—Meade's Withdrawal From Lee's Front—Lee's Advance—Fighting Around Brandy Station—The Battle at Bristoe Station—The Union Army Retires Towards Washington—Lee Discontinues the Pursuit and Returns to the Rapidan River—In Winter Quarters—How the Winter Was Spent—Many of Lee's Soldiers Are Permitted to Return to Their Homes Under Care of Their Commanding Officers for a Vacation—Mosby Appears Upon the S

Grant in Command of the Union Army—Preparation for the Coming Struggle—Battle of The Wilderness—Strength of the Armies—Losses —Wounding of General Longstreet—Battle at Spotsylvania Court House—The Awful Slaughter—Sheridan's Raid on Richmond—Stuart's Cavalry in Pursuit—General Stuart's Death—Yellow Tavern—The Author Again a Prisoner....

Battle of Cold Harbor—Grant Again Repulsed—Death of Flournoy—Grant Crossing the James—Prison Life at Point Lookout—Parole of the Sick From the Hospitals—The Dreary Winter—Its Bright Side—How the Soldiers and the Citizens Spent It—Mosby's Men—The Long Siege—Battle of the Crater....

Evacuation of Richmond—Retreat of Lee's Army Towards Appomattox—Lee's Surrender—After the Surrender—Some War Stories—The Faithful Slave....

Their Number—Losses—Rover's Tricks—A Mighty Jaw—Her Capture—Horses in Battle—Friendship Between Horse and Rider—Wagon Horses—Artillery Horses—Cavalry Horses—Men Sleep on Their Horses—Horses for Breastwork—Seventy-five Thousand Black Beauties—Monument for Lee's Horses—A Pathetic Poem. GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, Who preceded Gen. Robert E. Lee in command of the Army of Northern Virginia...

From Harper's Ferry to Bull Run. "O war, thou hast thy fierce delight, Thy gleams of joy intensely bright; Such gleams as from thy polished shield Fly dazzling o'er the battle-field." Is there a boy in all this wide land, North or South, who would not like to hear what a boy has to say of his experience as a private soldier in the Confederate Army from 1861 to 1865, serving for the most part in Stuart's Cavalry of Lee's army? Men have told their story, and graphically told it from a man's standp

From Bull Run to Seven Pines. "Only a boy! and his father had said He never could let his youngest go; Two already were lying dead Under the feet of the trampling foe." As the advance guard of the Federal army entered Alexandria, Va., on the south side of the Potomac, a Confederate flag was seen floating from the roof of a hotel kept by one Jackson. Col. Elsworth, commanding the advance force, hauled it down. Jackson shot him dead, and was in turn killed by Elsworth's soldiers. This, I believe,

From Bull Run to Seven Pines (Continued). "You have called us and we're coming, by Richmond's bloody tide To lay us down, for freedom's sake, our brothers' bones beside." The several battles around Richmond in the spring of 1862, viz., Seven Pines, Mechanicsville, Beaver Dam, Malvern Hill, Gaines' Mill, I have grouped under the head of Seven Pines. The fall and winter months following the battle of Bull Run were spent for the most part by both sides in recruiting their armies and getting ready f

From Seven Pines to Antietam. "On that pleasant morn of early fall, When Lee marched over the mountain wall." "Over the mountains, winding down, Horse and foot into Frederick town." A part of Pope's army, under Banks, had been pushed forward as far as Cedar Run, about half way between Manassas and Gordonsville. Jackson met this force and scattered it like chaff, and then moved rapidly toward Manassas. He did not move in a straight line, but made a detour to the left, and by rapid marches placed

From Antietam to Chancellorsville. "Two armies covered hill and plain, Where Rappahannock's waters Ran deeply crimsoned with the stain Of battle's recent slaughters." After resting a while at Winchester Lee's army began its march leisurely back toward Richmond, and took up a position near Fredericksburg, a point about half way between Washington and Richmond. McClellan was relieved of his command, and Gen. Burnside took his place and gathered a large army in front of Fredericksburg on the Rappah

From Gettysburg to the Wilderness. "But who shall break the guards that wait Before the awful face of Fate? The tattered standards of the South Were shrivelled at the cannon's mouth, And all her hopes were desolate." The main army marched slowly back up the valley, crossing at the various gaps east of Winchester, and occupied a position on the south bank of the Rapidan, a branch of the Rappahannock. The cavalry under Stuart took the east side of the Blue Ridge and marched in a parallel line with

From James River to Petersburg. "Down on the left of the Rebel lines, Where a breastwork stands on a copse of pines, Before the Rebels their ranks can form, The Yankees have carried the place by storm." I think it was about the 12th of May when Grant began his march from Spottsylvania, and it was, I think, the 3rd of June when he made another attempt at Cold Harbor to enter Richmond by breaking through Lee's army, and another desperate battle was fought, but the losses were not so great as they

AN AFTER-THOUGHT. The Horses. "Here lies the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there rolls not the breath of his pride. The foam of his gasping lies white on the turf, And as cold as the spray of the rock-beaten surf." I do not mean to intimate by the headline of this chapter that I forgot the horses of Lee's army. They were on my mind all through the story, but it was not until the manuscript was in the hands of the printer that the thought came to me that they should have a chapt