Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General....

THE EPISODE OF BALL'S BLUFF: AND ITS CONSEQUENCES TO SOME OF US. This subject, like many of the periods of the Civil War, has been often described, and is familiar to the passing generation, but has, I believe, never before been placed upon your records, nor by an eye witness. Therefore, I venture to present it here. The Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, in which I had the honor to be a First Lieutenant and Adjutant, left Boston in the Autumn of 1861, for active service wit

MILITARY RECORD OF WRITER. Lieutenant and Adjutant, July 1, 1861 Lieutenant-Colonel, Aug. 30, 1862 Colonel, July 13, 1864 Colonel by Brevet for conduct in the battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania, Virginia Brigadier-General by Brevet for conduct in the battles on the Weldon, Richmond Virginia BATTLES IN WHICH THE WRITER PARTICIPATED. Names of battles as authorized by the War Department to be borne on the Battle Flags of the regiments engaged. SERVICE. Twentieth Massachusetts Vol. Infantry