Description of a Battle -- The 2d Ohio (Colonel Harris) at Perryville -- Major-General McCook's Report -- Major-General Rousseau's Report -- Sketch of Major-General A. McD. McCook. CHAPTER IV 47 Looking for the Body of a Dead Nephew on the Field of Murfreesboro -- The 6th Ohio at Murfreesboro -- The Dead of the 6th -- The 36th Indiana -- Putting Contrabands to Some Service -- Anxiety of Owners to Retain their Slaves -- Conduct of a Mistress -- "Don't Shoot, Massa, here I Is!" -- Kidd's Safeguard -- "Always Been a Union Man" -- Negroes Exhibiting their Preference for their Friends. CHAPTER V 57 Cutting Down a Rebel's Reserved Timber -- Home again -- Loomis and his Coldwater Battery -- Secession Poetry -- Heavy Joke on an "Egyptian" Regiment. CHAPTER VI 64 General Turchin -- Mrs. General Turchin in Command of the Vanguard of the 19th Illinois -- The 18th Ohio at Athens -- Children and Fools always Tell the Truth -- Picket Talk -- About Soldiers Voting -- Captain Kirk's Line of Battle. CHAPTER VII 70 Comic Scenes -- Importation of Yankees -- Wouldn't Go Round -- Major Boynton and the Chicken -- Monotony of Camp-Life -- Experience on a Scouting Expedition -- Larz Anderson, Esq., in Camp -- A Would-be Secessionist Caught in his Own Trap -- Guthrie Gray Bill of Fare for a Rebel "Reception" -- Pic Russell among the Snakes. CHAPTER VIII 80 Fun in the 123d Ohio -- A Thrilling Incident of the War -- General Kelley -- Vote under Strange Circumstances -- Die, but never Surrender. CHAPTER IX 87 Our Hospitals -- No Hope -- A Short and Simple Story -- A Soldier's Pride -- The Last Letter -- Soldierly Sympathy -- The Hospitals at Gallatin, and their Ministering Angels. CHAPTER X 99 Sports in Camp -- Anecdote of the 63d Ohio and Colonel Sprague -- Soldier's Dream of Home -- The Wife's Reply. CHAPTER XI 107 The Atrocities of Slavery -- The Beauties of the Peculiar Institution -- A few Well-substantiated Facts -- Visit to Gallatin, Tennessee. CHAPTER XII 124 General Schofield -- Colonel Durbin Ward -- Colonel Connell -- Women in Breeches -- Another Incident of the War -- Negro Sermon. CHAPTER XIII 135 Letter from Cheat Mountain -- the Women of the South -- Gilbert's Brigade.