CHAPTER VIII Personal Mention of Generals Sheridan, Wright, and Ricketts, and Mrs. Ricketts; also Generals Crook and Hayes--Battle of Opequon, under Sheridan, September 1864, and Incidents CHAPTER IX Battle of Fisher's Hill--Pursuit of Early--Devastation of the Shenandoah Valley (1864)--Cavalry Battle at Tom's Brook, and Minor Events CHAPTER X Battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864, with Comments thereon-- also Personal Mention and Incidents CHAPTER XI Peace Negotiations--Lee's Suggestion to Jefferson Davis, 1862-- Fernando Wood's Correspondence with Mr. Lincoln, 1862--Mr. Stephens at Fortress Monroe, 1863--Horace Greeley, Niagara Falls Conference, 1864--Jacquess-Gilmore's Visits to Richmond, 1863-4--F. P. Blair, Sen., Conferences with Mr. Davis, 1865--Hampton Roads Conference, Mr. Lincoln and Seward and Stephens and Others, 1865--Ord-Longstreet, Lee and Grant, Correspondence, 1865; and Lew Wallace and General Slaughter, Point Isabel Conference, 1865 CHAPTER XII Siege of Richmond and Petersburg--Capture and Recapture of Fort Stedman, and Capture of Part of Enemy's First Line in Front of Petersburg by Keifer's Brigade, March 25, 1865--Battle of Five Forks, April 1st--Assault and Taking of Confederate Works on the Union Left, April 2d--Surrender of Richmond and Petersburg, April 3d--President Lincoln's Visit to Petersburg and Richmond, and His Death CHAPTER XIII Battle of Sailor's Creek, April 6th--Capitulation of General Robert E. Lee's Army at Appomattox Court-House, April 9, 1865--Surrender of Other Confederate Armies, and End of the War of The Rebellion APPENDICES _A_ General Keifer Ancestry and Life before the Civil War Public Services in Civil Life Service in Spanish War _B_ Mention of Officers of the 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry _C_ Farewell Order of General Keifer in Civil War Casualties in Keifer's Brigade _D_ Correspondence between Generals Wright and Keifer Relating to Battle of Sailor's Creek _E_ Letter of General Keifer to General Corbin on Cuba _F_ List of Officers who Served on General Keifer's Staff in Spanish War _G_ Farewell Order of General Keifer in Spanish War ILLUSTRATIONS Major-General George Gordon Meade, U.S.A., August 18, 1864 Brigadier-General Wesley Merritt [From a photograph taken 1864.] Major-General Robert C. Schenck [From a photograph taken 1863.] Major-General Frank Wheaton [From a photograph taken 1865.] Brevet Brigadier-General J. Warren Keifer [From a photograph taken 1865.] Major-General William H. French [From a photograph taken 1863.] Map of Orange Grove Battle-Field, Mine Run, Va. [November 27, 1863.] Brevet Brigadier-General John W. Horn, Sixth Maryland Volunteers [From a photograph taken 1864.] Brevet Brigadier-General M. R. McClennan, 138th Pennsylvania Volunteers [From a photograph taken 1864.] Brigadier-General Joseph B. Carr [From a photograph taken since the war.] Colonel James W. Snyder, Ninth New York Heavy Artillery [From a photograph taken 1865.]