pedition to Pohick Church.-Severe orders against forag-

ing.- Protests and arrests.-Sixteenth moves camp.-

Franklin's division

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60-73

CHAPTER VII

WINTER QUARTERS

Instructions in Tactics and Army Regulations.-Captain Stetson

repeats commands.-Educated officers in Franklin's divi-

sion.-Adjutant Bicknell's description of a good soldier.—

A soldier who doubted his captain's courage.-Army re-

viewed at Bailey's Cross Roads.-Election of major.-An-

other execution.—Chaplain Millar.-Efforts to abolish pro-

fanity.-Erroneous opinion as to military men.-Welcoming

the New Year

74-87

CHAPTER VIII

MARCHES PRELIMINARY TO THE CAMPAIGN OF 1862

Fairfax Seminary Hospital.-Promotion of Colonel Davies and

Captain Howland.-"Useless to instruct tall officers."-

First Division, First Army Corps.-March to Fairfax and

return. Catlett's Station.-Apple blossoms and snow fall-

ing.-"May burn split timber, but not rails.”—Captain

Parker's letters.-Embark for the Peninsula.-Colonel How-

land's letters.-Debark at head of York River.

CHAPTER IX

BATTLE OF WEST POINT, VIRGINIA

[W. R. VOL. XI.]

Presentiments.-Companies F and G resist Hood's Brigade.-

Summary treatment.-Cause of it learned in 1869.-A Mason

in distress.-Extract from Hood's "Advance and Retreat."-

A Texan saved Hood by killing Corporal Love .

CHAPTER X

FROM THE PAMUNKEY TO THE CHICKAHOMINY

[W. R. VOL. XI.]

McClellan commends conduct in battle.-White House.-Organ-
ization of Fifth and Sixth Corps.-March to the Chicka-
hominy.-Fourth Corps crosses the River.-Mechanicsville.
-Captain John Smith and Pocahontas.-Captain Gibson
and Dr. Gaines's Mill.-A recruit who wished he was a baby.

88-95

96-103

-Unfavorable position of the Army.-Secretary of War's

order.-Battle of Fair Oaks.-Casualties.-Barney's letter.

-Osborn's Battery.-Slocum's Division crosses the Chicka-

hominy

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104-116

CHAPTER XI

THE BATTLE OF GAINES'S MILL

[W. R. VOL. XI.]

Ordered to extend right wing north of Richmond.-Stanton's

dispatch of June 26.- Extract from Dabney's Life of

Stonewall Jackson.-McClellan's order to quartermaster at

White House.-Slocum's Division goes to the support of

Porter. Twentieth North Carolina captures section of Ed-

wards's Battery.-Porter's account of its recapture by the

Sixteenth.-Comte de Paris's reference to the incident.-Con-

duct of the North Carolina regiment recalls the praise paid

their grandfathers.-Member of North Carolina regiment

writes of the incident forty-two years after the battle.-Ex-

periences on the firing line.-Colonel Howland and his war

horse "Old Scott."-Casualties.-Extract from "War Pict-

ures from the South"

CHAPTER XII

FROM THE CHICKAHOMINY TO THE JAMES

[W. R. VOL. XI.]

Battles of Garnett's Farm, Peach Orchard and Savage's Station.

-Leaving the wounded at Savage's Station.-Corporal

Durkee's letter.-Surgeon Stevens's account of destruction of

munitions and supplies.-Battle of White Oak Swamp.-

Destruction of pontoon train by Captain McMahon and the

pioneer corps of the Fifth Vermont.-Difficulty of protecting

poultry under artillery fire.-Battle of Glendale.-Firing

line incidents.-Bicknell's account of the withdrawal of the

brigade from a position of which the enemy held three sides.

-The army on the bank of the James.-Extract from Mc-

Clellan's "Own Story"

117-129

130-141

CHAPTER XIII

HARRISON'S LANDING

The Sixteenth's losses in change of base.-Seaver's letter to
Colonel Howland.—Returned from hospital.-President Lin-

coln visits the army.-Harrison Bar letter.-"Would out-

flank your company at both ends."-Colonel rejoins the

regiment. Slocum's promotion.-A promotion which did

not materialize.-Army withdrawn from the Peninsula on

advice of General Halleck.-What it cost to return it later

to this same place.

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142-151

CHAPTER XIV

LEAVING THE PENINSULA

Crossing the Chickahominy on pontoon bridge.-Williamsburg.-

Colonial capital.-College of William and Mary.—The Alma

Mater of great men.-Phi Beta Kappa. First insane asylum

in America. First steps taken leading to independence.—

Washington and Jefferson as suitors.-Yorktown.—Surren-

der of the British flags in 1781 recalled by Ensign Wilson's

grandson, adjutant of the Sixteenth.-Newport News to Al-

exandria.-Sixteenth's losses on the Peninsula

CHAPTER XV

THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC BROKEN UP

Third and Fifth Corps join Pope.-Sixth Corps advances to Cen-

treville.-Taylor's Brigade engaged.-Slocum's division

checks retreat.-Retires to Centreville.-Ovation to General

Kearny.-Kearny killed.—Action and comments of Generals

R. E. Lee, Longstreet and Fitzhugh Lee.-General Hawkes's

account of Kearny's death.-Kearny in Northern New York.

-Correspondence between Halleck and McClellan.—Presi-

dent Lincoln assigns McClellan to command the defences of

the capital

CHAPTER XVI

152-156

157-166

THE MARYLAND CAMPAIGN INCLUDING THE BATTLE OF CRAMPTON'S PASS

[W. R. VOL. XIX.]

General Lee's plans and operations of his army until capture of
Harper's Ferry.-General McClellan pursued the enemy in
three columns.-Movements of the Sixth Corps.—Battle of
Turner's Pass fought by the First and Ninth Corps.-Battle
of Crampton's Pass fought by the Sixth Corps.-Seaver's
letter to Colonel Howland.-Walling's letter.-Captains
Parker, Curtis and Lieutenant Barney rejoin the regiment
from hospital.-Ambulance corps reorganized.-Captain

Hopkins's Letter.-Visit to Confederate Hospital.-Inter-

viewed a soldier from North Carolina and one from Georgia.

-Resemblance to a namesake.-Marching to Battle of

Antietam .

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167-178

CHAPTER XVII

THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM

[W. R. VOL. XIX.]

-

General Lee places his forces in position at Sharpsburg. — The

order in which McClellan's army corps came to the field

at Antietam.—Major Joseph M. Knap.-Burnside's delay

at Antietam Bridge.-Charge of the Sixth Corps prevented

by protest of Sumner.-The hesitation of Burnside and fail-

ure to send the Sixth Corps forward turned what might have

been a victory into a drawn battle.-Casualties.-Colonel

W. B. Goodrich.-General George S. Greene.-Captain

L. L. Buck

CHAPTER XVIII

ON THE BATTLEFIELD AT NIGHT

The picket line.-The resting soldiers.-Carrying wounded to
the surgeons.-A Delawarean brought in.-Incident recalled
twenty years after.-The widow's son.-Regretted he could
not die under the flag he fought for.—A lesson in toleration.—
Father McAtee.-Under a blanket with a dead Confederate.
-Lieutenant Colonel Stetson's noble conduct.-Major
Palmer's letter to Judge Stetson .

179-191

192-197

CHAPTER XIX

THE ARMY AT BAKERSVILLE

[W. R. VOL. XXI.]

Letters of Walling and Stone.-President Lincoln's visit.-Colonel

Howland resigns. His character and soldierly qualities.—

Colonel Bartlett's promotion.-Last election in the Sixteenth.

-Elections violate the principles of military system.-Father

McAtee conducts religious services.—Opinions of a bigot.—

Injustice of orders dropping wounded men.—Illustrated in

case of Sergeant Winslow.-Author commissioned lieutenant

colonel One Hundred and Forty-second New York.-Slocum

promoted to the command of the Twelfth Corps.-Walling's

letter describing march to Warrenton.-General McClellan

superseded in command of the Army of the Potomac by

General Burnside

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198-216

CHAPTER XX

THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG

[W. R. VOL. XXI.]

Location of the army.-McClellan's opinion of its condition.-

Burnside's plan of campaign disapproved by Halleck.-

Another assented to by the President.-Further changes

without approval of the President.-Three Grand Divisions

organized.-March to Falmouth.-Belle Plain.-White Oak

Church.-Burnside disapproves request of Hooker and

Sumner to cross the Rappahannock.-Battle of Fredericks-

burg.-Burnside reports the condition of his army.-His

attempts to engage the enemy and failures.-Assumed com-

mand reluctantly. Did the best he could.-Failure not

chargeable to subordinates.

CHAPTER XXI

HOOKER IN COMMAND

[W. R. VOL. XXV.]

President Lincoln's letter.-Condition of the army.-Reorgani-

zation and salutary reforms.-Corps badges.-Submitted

plans of campaign to the President.—Instructions to cavalry

commander.-President reviews the army.-Hooker submits

plan for campaign.-A soldier's equipments.-Operations

delayed by rains.-The President's misgivings.

CHAPTER XXII

THE BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE

[W. R. VOL. Xxv.]

217-225

Advance of the cavalry.-Concentrating the Fifth, the Eleventh,
the Twelfth Corps, and Pleasonton's Cavalry at Chancellors-
ville.-Hooker assumes command at Chancellorsville.-
Issues orders to advance to Tabernacle Church.-When the
troops were in sight of the position, ordered back.-Protest
of corps commanders against withdrawal.-A good position
abandoned for a bad one.-Awaits an attack.-Enemy march
across his front for three hours.-Overwhelm his right wing.
-One-half of his army fighting.-Other half awaiting orders

226-232