On shipbound. Burial at sea. At Hatteras Inlet. Battle of Roanoke Island. Battle of Newbern. Reading Johnnies' love letters. Athletics. Battle of Camden. Went to the relief of the 2d Maryland. CHAPTER III IN VIRGINIA UNDER GENERAL POPE 53 A ride in the Confederate doctor's "One horse Chaise." Living off the country. Learning the distance to Germania Ford. The Second Battle of Bull Run. The Battle of Chantilly. CHAPTER IV WITH MCCLELLAN IN MARYLAND 83 The Barbara Fretchie Incident. The Battle of South Mountain. Death of General Reno. The Battle of Antietam. Clara Barton. President Lincoln visits the army. Visited a farmhouse very near a Confederate Camp. CHAPTER V THE FREDERICKSBURG CAMPAIGN 101 A hard race for a pig. Chaplain Ball returns home. Picket duty along the river. The Battle of Fredericksburg. Burying the dead. Christmas revels with the Confederates. A band of horn-blowers. A raid on the sutler. A costume ball at Hotel de Ville. CHAPTER VI PLAYING SOLDIER IN KENTUCKY 127 Our breakfast at Baltimore. The trip west. The Reception at Mt. Sterling. Moved into the town. CHAPTER VII THE CAMPAIGN IN TENNESSEE 137 We crossed the Cumberland Range. The patient mule. Seeing a railroad engine with a train of cars make a dive. The siege of Knoxville. Will you lend me my Nigger Colonel. Re-enlistment. Recrossed the Mountains, returning to Kentucky on the way home, on our re-enlistment furlough. CHAPTER VIII HOME ON A RE-ENLISTMENT FURLOUGH 155 The trip home. Reception at Worcester. The Social Whirl. We returned to Annapolis. CHAPTER IX WITH GRANT IN VIRGINIA 159 The Battle of the Wilderness. The Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse. Johnnies caught un-dressed. The Battle of Bethseda Church. The Johnnie who wanted to see the sun rise. Life in the trenches during the siege of Petersburg. Wounded. CHAPTER X LIFE IN THE HOSPITAL 182 That ride in the ambulance. Emory Hospital. The woman with my Mother's name. The dreadful death rate. President Lincoln's Second Inauguration. Booth's Ride. Doing clerical work in Philadelphia. Discharged. CHAPTER I LEARNING TO BE A SOLDIER Leaving Camp Lincoln for the front. At Baltimore, Maryland. Cantaloupes and Peaches. Annapolis, Maryland. Chesapeake Bay oysters. Assisting negroes to escape. Doing picket duty on the railroad. A Negro husking. Chaplain Ball arrives from Massachusetts. Assigned to the 2d Brigade, 2d Division, 9th Army Corps.