1862.--Burnside's First Campaign.--Army of the Potomac in Three Divisions.--Advance from Warrenton to Falmouth.--General Stahel's Raid to the Shenandoah.--Laying Pontoons across the Rappahannock under Fire.--Battle of Fredericksburg.-- Daring Feats and General Heroism.--Death of General Bayard. --The Hospitals.--Sanitary and Christian Commissions.--Camp "Bayard."--Camp-Fires.--Winter Quarters.--Friendly Relations of Pickets.--Trading.--Pay-Day.--"Stuck in the Mud." 105 CHAPTER VIII. ORGANIZATION OF A CAVALRY CORPS. 1863.--General Hooker assumes Command of the Army of the Potomac.--Demoralization.--Reorganization.--A Cavalry Corps. --General George D. Stoneman in Command.--Death of Sergeant May.--Forests of the Old Dominion.--The Cavalryman and his Faithful Horse.--Scenes in Winter Quarters.--Kilpatrick.-- His Character.--Qualifications of the True Soldier.--A New Horse.--A Mulish Mule.--Kilpatrick's Colored Servants in Trouble.--Terrific Hail-Storm.--Major E. F. Cooke Honored. --Colonel Clarence Buel. 124 CHAPTER IX. REBEL CHIEFS AND THEIR RAIDS. 1863.--Rebel Raids by Stuart, Imboden, and Fitz-Hugh Lee.--John S. Mosby, Guerilla Chief.--His Character.--His Command.-- Daring and Plunder.--Aided by Citizens.--Condition of the Country Favorable for their Depredations.--Our Picket Lines too Light.--Attacks on Pickets at Herndon Station, Cub Run, and Frying-Pan Church.--Miss Laura Ratcliffe, Mosby's Informant.--Mosby at Fairfax Court House.--Capture of General Stoughton.--Fight at Chantilly.--Mosby lauded by His Chiefs. --Mosby beaten at Warrenton Junction.--Severely whipped at Greenwich, where he loses a Howitzer captured from Colonel Baker at Ball's Bluff. 143 CHAPTER X. CHANCELLORSVILLE AND STONEMAN'S RAID. 1863.--Review of the Army by the President.--Deserters Punished. --Sports and Pastimes.--Stoneman's First Move.--Storm.-- Reconnoissance to Warrenton.--Another Move.--Other Storms. --Catching "Rabbits."--Stoneman's Great Raid on Lee's Communications.--On the Virginia Central Railroad.-- Kilpatrick at Louisa Court House.--He Marches upon Richmond.--Bold Advance near the City.--Important Captures. --Retreat over Meadow Bridge.--Destructions.--Bushwhackers. --Happy Rencounter.--Safe Arrival at Gloucester Point.-- Public Prints.--Battle of Chancellorsville.--Heroism and Defeat.--Stonewall Jackson Falls.--Hooker Injured.--Retreat. --Orders. 161 CHAPTER XI. FROM YORKTOWN TO FALMOUTH.