PREPARATIONS FOR ACTIVE SERVICE. 1861.--First Advance.--"Contrabands," their Hopes and Treatment. --Union Ranks Filling Up.--Promotion.--Foraging and its Obstacles.--Scouting and its Aim.--Senator Harris visits the Command.--Ball's Bluff.--Recruiting Service.--Interesting Incidents.--Camp Palmer.--"Contrabands" at Work.--Drilling near Arlington Heights.--Colonel George D. Bayard.--Fight at Drainesville. 39 CHAPTER IV. THE ADVANCE TO THE RAPPAHANNOCK. 1862.--"All quiet along the Potomac."--Preparations.--Army of the Potomac Moves!--Capture of the "Quaker Guns" at Centreville. --Return to Defences.--Guerillas.--Their Attacks and Stratagems. --The Bovine Foe.--Picketing: how it is done.--Sufferings.-- McClellan to the Peninsula.--Virginia Weather and the People. --General Augur's Advance to the Rappahannock.--Lieutenant Decker's Bravery and Death.--Night Charge on Falmouth Heights. --Fredericksburg Surrenders.--How Citizens regard us.--Guarding a Train to Thoroughfare Gap.--Fight and Captures at Flipper's Orchard.--Shenandoah Valley.--The Fifth New York Cavalry, First Ira Harris' Guard.--Death of Turner Ashby.--Strange Cavalry Tactics.--Personal Bravery of Captain Hammond.--End of the Peninsular Campaign. 49 CHAPTER V. POPE'S CAMPAIGN IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA. 1862.--Kilpatrick at Beaver Dam.--Captain John S. Mosby.--Return of the Raiders.--Complimentary Orders.--The Harris Light at Anderson's Turnout.--Rebel Account of the Scare.--General John P. Hatch, his Misfortunes and Justification.-- Reconnoissances.--Battle of Cedar Mountain.--Hospital at Culpepper.--General Stuart in Close Quarters.--His Adjutant- General Captured.--Death of Captain Charles Walters.--Pope driven back and waiting for Reinforcements.--Kilpatrick's Fight at Brandy Station.--Waterloo Bridge.--Bristoe Station. --Manassas Junction.--Battle of Groveton.--Second Bull Run. --Chantilly and Death of Kearny.--General Pope resigns. 72 CHAPTER VI. REBEL INVASION OF MARYLAND. 1862.--Result of Pope's Campaign.--Rest and Recruit at Hall's Hill.--"My Maryland;" Its Invasion.--Offensive Policy of the Rebellion.--Pennsylvania and the Whole Country Aroused. --Battle of South Mountain.--Harper's Ferry.--Colonel Miles. --His Treachery and Death.--Bloody Battle of Antietam.-- Drilling Recruits.--The Harris Light again at the Front.--At Chantilly.-- Sudley Church.--Leesburg.--McClellan again Relieved from Command. 95 CHAPTER VII. McCLELLAN SUCCEEDED BY BURNSIDE.