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HISTORY
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History of the First Maine cavalry, 1861-1865. I Edward P. Tobie. Published by the First Maine caval association. Boston, Press of Emery & Hughes, 1887. xix, 732, ili p. front., pl., port. 23}"m. Introduction by Col. C. H. Smith. Eight companies of the First D. C. cavalry were recruited in Maine a later incorporated with the First Maine cavalry.
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1. Maine cavalry. 1st regt .. 1861-1865. 2. U. S .- Hist .- Civil war-Re mental histories .- Me cav .- 1st. 3. District of Columbia cavalry. 1st re 1863-1864. 4. U. S .- Hist .- Civil war-Regimental histories-D. C. cav 1st.
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COPYRIGHT, 1887, BY EDWARD P. TOBIE.
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TO
ALL THE COMRADES
WHO SERVED IN
THE GRAND OLD REGIMENT,
This Work
IS RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
BY THE HISTORIAN.
-PREFACE.
COMRADES : -- Halt a moment with me before you advance through the ensuing pages. Years ago, at the first gathering of the surviv- ing comrades of the grand old regiment after the muster-out, you did me the honor to select me as historian. After all these years I take pleasure in presenting the history for your inspection, feeling that if it pleases you, I can ask no greater reward. The committee appointed by you at the reunion at Skowhegan, 1886, to print the history, have done their work, and I fancy I can hear you say as with one voice, "They have done well."
My work has been long continued. Often have I met with discouragement so strong as to stop active operations for months, and again with such encouragement that labor was but pleasant pastime. The work has been done during the irregularly occurring spare moments of a busy life on a morning and evening newspaper, and if there be here and there a "touch of the newspaper," or if you now and then see evidences of haste in preparation, wonder not, but attribute it to the circumstances by which I have been surrounded ; and if you find errors, as you doubtless will, do not be surprised. The work I have enjoyed. It has been a pleasant change from daily duties, which I have welcomed; it has served to keep bright the memories of those stirring days until they have become a part of my very existence, without which I should be lonesome, indeed; it has, by being a change, served as a rest, even though it were of the same nature as my usual work; it has kept bright, also, memories of you, personally, and I have enjoyed the thought that I was striving to put on record the deeds of the brave men, my comrades - deeds which are a part of the history of the good old state of Maine and of our loved country.
The personal incidents, the stories of gallant deeds, you, com-
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rades, well know, are but a small portion of such that might be related of our regiment - that would have been related had they come to my knowledge. But they serve as illustrations of the life and spirit of the Union soldier and of the First Maine Cavalry man - as samples of the deeds and incidents of the service - and will, in the minds of each of you, call up memories of other incidents, of other deeds of heroism, of other noble sacrifices, which are now well-nigh forgotten, but which should be revived and their memory ever kept bright. If such incidents seem to come more often from certain companies, look upon this as not making these companies prominent, but as putting on record those things which are most familiar. I should have been glad to tell of other such deeds, had the storehouses of the comrade's memories been still more unlocked for me.
To you, comrades, and there are many of you, who have rendered assistance and encouragement, by forwarding papers and documents, by relating experiences, and by kind words, is due a good deal of whatever merit the history may have, and without your aid it would have been devoid of much of its life. To all, from the com- rade who prepared the foundation for more than half of the com- pany rosters, or sent me the muster-out roll of his company, or the monthly returns of the regiment, or furnished the completed roster of his company, to the comrade who gave me a single story of camp, or field, or prison experience, or the list of casualties in his company in some little skirmish, or his own record, or merely called to mind some almost forgotten incident of the service, - to each and all, I can only say I thank you, and all the comrades will thank you as I do, though they know not your names.
As you glance down the roster of your company and find there names you had not thought of for years in the hurry and bustle of every day life, and as these bring up the old scenes once more, thank the comrades of your company who assisted in their prepara- tion, who kindly hunted up the old rolls and diaries, and brought memory to bear upon them until they awoke to new life, and after the facts were gathered and arranged, kindly revised the rosters,
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that they might be made as correct and complete as possible after all these years.
Comrades, you may now proceed to inspect the work. If you take as much pleasure in reading your own history as I have in preparing it, I shall be more than satisfied.
God bless each and every comrade of the gallant First Maine Cavalry.
PAWTUCKET, R. I., September, 1877.
EDWARD P. TOBIE.
INTRODUCTION.
TWENTY-SIX years ago, our country was at the brink of ruin. One portion of it, misguided by sectional hatred and impelled by violent passions, openly and defiantly denounced the government and disregarded its authority. The other section contemplated the threatening situation in divided councils, but always with appalling apprehensions and bated breath. At length, the south, crazed by its solicitude for the safety of slavery, resolved to destroy the govern- ment, even though it should inevitably destroy itself at the same time, and in fulfilment of that resolve, fired the fatal shot at Sumter. Then divided councils in the north disappeared. "Sustain the Gov- ernment !" " Preserve the Union !" were the spontaneous exclama- tions of all. A zeal born only of upright intentions and reliance upon a just cause, took possession of and inspired our whole people. Men everywhere flew to arms, and women helped them to buckle on their armor. The cheering promise of a sacred prophecy became reversed, inasmuch as it may be said that they beat their ploughshares into swords, and their pruning hooks into spears ; neither did men learn peace any more.
In the midst of that loyal uprising, twelve hundred citizens of Maine took the oath to serve the United States of America honestly and faithfully against all its enemies whatsoever, and organized themselves into the First Maine Cavalry. In their patriotic zeal, they gave no heed to their pending sacrifices of home comforts and luxuries for the army blanket and the changeless army ration, nor, above all, to the surrender of their rights of independent speech and action, by their oath to obey the orders of their appointed superiors. They fulfilled the obligations of their oaths in full measure. They served as a regiment through the war, and did their full share to restore union and peace to the country. In the discharge of that duty, the life of the regiment was told in more than fourscore encounters with the enemy, and our loyal state of Maine filled vacancies as they occurred, until the roll was lengthened to nearly three times twelve hundred names. The regiment contained men of nearly every age and position in life. Many of them were smooth- faced schoolboys, who, as a rule, made the best soldiers. A larger
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number were middle-aged men in their full strength, who generally adapted themselves to their new duties and conditions less readily and successfully than their younger companions. There were also not a few, who, in that patriotic hour, disregarded not only old age, but even other infirmities that would have exempted them from bearing arms.
Among the boy soldiers referred to, there was one whose patri- otism was equalled only by his pluck. He was one of the first to enlist and the last to be mustered out. He shared every duty and honored every position that an enlisted soldier has a right to. He experi- enced in turn the allurements of army hospitals and the eager hospi- tality of rebel prisons. But he did not die - the only blemish upon his heroic record. In taste and appearance he was better fitted for an editor's chair or an author's study than to fill a trooper's saddle. He used a facile pencil, and with it combined the taste of the indi- vidual with the daily duties of the soldier. By the light of the camp- fire, after the day was done, he wrote out the incidents of camp life, campaigns, marches, and battles. Thus, as the days of four long years of war wore themselves out one by one, so the pages of his faithful diary gathered events of that eventful time, and folded them up one by one for future use.
At last the war ended, and the surviving remnant of the regiment was mustered out of service. Then to many there came another change in their habits of life hardly less severe than the former one. Some, indeed, have never recovered from the interruption of their business habits and pursuits, caused by those four years of war. During the first decade of peace, therefore, the soldiers of the war had to struggle for a living, and found but little time in which to talk over their war experiences. Those matters, by common con- sent, became the special theme of statesmen.
But at last, after twenty-two years of work and reflection in the enjoyment of peace, the author of that diary has found time to break its seal, and the stories therein contained are told by him in this volume. Any book of this character must necessarily suggest a great deal more than it can express. The victories of the war may be enumerated, but their grand results are immeasurable and inex- pressible. The expansion of free republican government on this continent, and the increase of population of our own country by tens of millions, and its wealth by thousands of millions, since the war, are facts that in themselves tax the imagination to properly
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conceive of. But immeasurably greater than these things are the sacred truths that bondmen were set free, the poor were lifted up, treason was rebuked, and the principles of the government estab- lished by our fathers were vindicated. On the other hand, the graves filled by the war may also be counted. But the promises and hopes and secrets that were buried in them, and the broken hearts and disappointments and sighs and sorrows that hover about them, can never be told or known.
To the living of our dear old regiment, this history will be like a perpetual reunion. The reappearance of many faces that were familiar in the war, will cause us to forget for the moment the inroads of wrinkles and gray hairs wrought by nearly a quarter of a century that has elapsed. The delineations of deeds of gallantry, daring, and heroism, will rekindle the old war spirit that was in us. But more impressive than all else, the names of all, the dead and the living, marshalled in companies and battalions, will pass before us in silent but grand review.
The history will unquestionably possess interest for the general reader ; but comrades of the First Maine Cavalry, I think it has been prepared more especially for ourselves and our children, wherever they may be scattered throughout the world. In recognition of that purpose, and as an expresssion of our appreciation, esteem, and regard for the author, I call for three cheers, in the spirit and with the ring of Auld Lang Syne, for Tobie.
C. H. SMITH. FORT CLARK, TEXAS, July 16, 1887.
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CHAPTER I.
THE WINTER IN MAINE. PAGE
ORGANIZATION OF THE REGIMENT. - CHARACTER OF ITS MEN. - THE FIRST MAN. - THE FIRST LETTER FROM CAMP. - ROSTER OF OFFI- CERS AND MAKE-UP OF THE REGIMENT AT THE MUSTER-IN. - THE WINTER AT CAMP PENOBSCOT. - CAMP RUMORS. - LIFE IN TENTS DURING A MAINE WINTER. - SANITARY CONDITION OF THE MEN. - FUNERAL PROCESSIONS .- THAT "EXTRA BLANKET."-THE HORSES AND THEIR CARE. - DRILL, MOUNTED AND DISMOUNTED. - THE "SAILOR ON HORSEBACK." - THE RATIONS. - PAY-DAY. - THE TWENTY-TWO DOLLARS BOUNTY. - MORAL TONE OF THE REGI- MENT. - THE PROFANITY AND TEMPERANCE ORDERS. - DISCIPLINE. - RUNNING GUARD. - PLEASANT MEMORIES. - CHANGES IN THE OFFICERS. - ON THE WAY TO WASHINGTON. - ARRIVAL AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. - IN CAMP ON CAPITOL HILL. - THE FIRST DETAIL. - ARMED AND EQUIPPED. 1
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THE CAMPAIGN IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY.
GUARDING THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. - INCIDENTS AT MARTINSBURG. -- THE "INTOXICATION OF POWER." -UNDER GEN. BANKS. - THE FIRST DUTY IN PRESENCE OF THE ENEMY .- THE FIRST SKIRMISH AND THE FIRST CHARGE. - SKIRMISH NEAR STRAS- BURG. - BANKS' RETREAT. - PREPARING TO FIGHT. - "I CAME HERE TO FIGHT, CAPTAIN." - AN IMPORTANT SCOUTING EXPEDI- TION. - STUBBORN RESISTANCE TO ASHBY'S FORCE. - VALUABLE SERVICES OF THE FIRST MAINE BATTALION. - THE FIRST CASU- ALTY. - " THE MIDDLETOWN DISASTER." - A FEARFUL CHARGE. - ESCAPE OF THE BATTALION. - BATTLE OF WINCHESTER. - RE- TREAT ACROSS THE POTOMAC. - EXPERIENCES OF THE FIRST WOUNDED MAN. - A PRISON EXPERIENCE. - INCIDENTS OF THE DISASTER. - THE RETURN UP THE VALLEY. - MORE SKIRMISHING. -- THE BATTALION REJOINS THE REGIMENT
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CHAPTER III.
FIRST CAMPAIGN WITH THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
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DEPARTURE FROM WASHINGTON. - FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF VIRGINIA. - FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE. - WAR SCENES ALONG THE MARCH. - THE FIRST BIVOUAC. - A ROUGH INTRODUCTION TO CAMPAIGNING. - THE FIRST EXPEDITION. - FIRST EXPERIENCES IN FORAGING. - A MIDNIGHT RECONNAISSANCE. - A RIDE IN A PELTING RAIN. - THE FIRST RELIGIOUS SERVICES AT THE FRONT. - A QUEER TASTE TO MEAT AND MILK. - VIRGINIA THUNDER STORMS. - THE FIRST BURIAL IN THE "SACRED SOIL." - SUCCESSFUL RAID ON CUL- PEPPER. - "CAMP STANTON." - HEALTH OF THE MEN. - THE MARCH TO FREDERICKSBURG. - IN CAMP AT FALMOUTH. - REVIEW BY PRES. LINCOLN. - SHELTER TENTS. - ON THE MARCH AGAIN .- IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY. - CHARGE INTO WINCHESTER, AND' SURPRISE OF THE REBELS. - BACK TO MANASSAS. - CHERRIES! CHERRIES! - AT WEAVERVILLE. - ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM. - FOURTH OF JULY. - ARRIVAL OF LIEUT. COL. DOUTY'S BATTALION. - AT WARRENTON. - "NOT A GODLY GOOD MAN." -PICKETING, SCOUTING, ETC. - THE STAY AT WATERLOO 49
CHAPTER IN. THE CAMPAIGN UNDER POPE.
THE ARMY OF VIRGINIA. - GEN. POPE'S FAMOUS ORDERS. - HIS PLANS. -THE BOYS LEARNING TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. - DE- CIDEDLY UNPLEASANT SENSATIONS. - DECREASE IN THE NUMBERS OF THE REGIMENT. - REVIEW BY GEN. POPE. - " FORWARD !"-AT CULPEPPER. - BATTLE OF CEDAR MOUNTAIN. - UNDER FIRE FOR THE FIRST TIME. - MAGNIFICENT ARTILLERY DUEL. - A TRYING EXPERIENCE. - BIVOUAC ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE. - ARTILLERY FIRE IN THE NIGHT. - POPE'S RETREAT. - THE REGIMENT REAR GUARD FOR THE RETREATING ARMY. - FIRST BRANDY STATION FIGHT. - THE FIGHT AT WATERLOO. - A SKIRMISH IN A THUNDER STORM. - THE RAID ON CATLETT'S STATION. - BACKING AND FILL- ING. - SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN. - SCOUTING AND PICKETING DURING THE BATTLE. - BIVOUAC AT CENTREVILLE. - A COOL AMMUNITION TEAMSTER. - BACK TOWARD WASHINGTON. - SUFFER- INGS OF THE BOYS DURING THE RETREAT. - AN ENGLISH OPINION OF THE REGIMENT. - MUSTER-OUT OF THE BAND.
CHAPTER V. THE CAMPAIGN IN MARYLAND.
LEE'S ADVANCE INTO MARYLAND. - GEN. MCCLELLAN AGAIN IN COM- MAND OF THE ARMY. - THE REGIMENT AT ALEXANDRIA. - 1 RECONNORSANCE TO FAIRFAX. - THE WOUNDED ON THE BATTLE-
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FIELD OF BULL RUN. - BACK ACROSS THE POTOMAC. - A HOT, DUSTY MARCH INTO MARYLAND. - HEAVY DETAILS FROM THE REGIMENT. - CAMPAIGNING AMONG FRIENDS. - A SKIRMISH WITH FITZ HUGH LEE. - CHARGE INTO AND OCCUPATION OF FREDER- ICK. - COL. ALLEN APPOINTED MILITARY GOVERNOR OF THE CITY AND CAPT. SMITH PROVOST MARSHAL. - ON DUTY IN THE CITY. - ARRIVAL OF RECRUITS. - DUTIES OF MILITARY GOVERNOR AND PROVOST MARSHAL. - IMPORTUNITIES OF REBEL WOMEN TO AID REBEL PRISONERS. - THE MAINE BOYS AT PRAYER MEETING. - Co. G AT SOUTH MOUNTAIN. - COS. HI AND M AT ANTIETAM. - DEATH OF GEN. RENO. - CO. G AT BURNSIDE'S HEADQUARTERS . 90
CHAPTER VI. THE CAMPAIGN UNDER BURNSIDE.
GEN. MCCLELLAN RELIEVED BY GEN. BURNSIDE. - RESIGNATION OF COL. ALLEN. - CROSSING THE POTOMAC ON PONTOONS. - " ON TO RICHMOND" AGAIN. - CO. L ON DETAIL. - CO. F IN A SKIRMISH. - ONCE MORE AT WARRENTON. - AT SULPHUR SPRINGS. - FORAGING A FINE ART. - AT RAPPAHANNOCK STATION. - " GREASED HEEL." - FOR FREDERICKSBURG. - CAMPAIGNING IN A COLD STORM. - SHORT RATIONS AND FORAGE. - CO. K ON A RECONNAISSANCE. - BROOKS' STATION. - COLD SNOW STORM. - FALMOUTH. - COLD WEATHER AND SCANTY CLOTHING. - BAREFOOTED BOYS. - THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. - SUPPORTING A BATTERY. - BIV- OUAC UNDER FIRE. - DEATH OF GEN. BAYARD. - IN " WINTER QUARTERS' 99
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CHAPTER VII. THE WINTER AT CAMP BAYARD.
WINTER QUARTERS. - UNPLEASANT SURROUNDINGS. - WINTER DUTIES IN THE FIELD. - MILITARY METHOD OF DOING WORK. - PICKET DUTY ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK. - A VISITOR FROM THE NINTHI VIRGINIA CAVALRY. - REBEL DESERTERS, CONTRABANDS, ETC. - PLEASURES OF PICKET DUTY. - FATIGUE DUTY AT BELLE PLAIN. - CAMP DUTY. - ORGANIZATION OF THE MULE TRAIN. - EXCELLENT RATIONS. - BOXES FROM HOME. - DESERTERS PUN- ISHED. - FORAGING EXPEDITION ON A LARGE SCALE. - REVIEW BY THE PRESIDENT. - CARE OF THE HORSES. - HEALTH AND SPIRITS OF THE MEN. 107
CHAPTER VIII. THE CAMPAIGN UNDER GEN. HOOKER.
ORGANIZATION OF THE CAVALRY CORPS. - ROSTER OF OFFICERS AT THE OPENING OF THE SPRING CAMPAIGN, 1863. - FIRST PRACTICAL USE OF THE CAVALRY FORCE. - STONEMAN'S RAID. - CHARGE INTO
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LOUISA COURT HOUSE. - COS. B AND I MEET THE ENEMY. - DE- STROYING PROPERTY. - SUCCESSFUL STRATAGEM. - ACTUAL WORK OF THE RAID BEGUN. - EXPEDITION TO BURN A BRIDGE. - GAL- LANT AND SUCCESSFUL EXPLOIT. - ON THE BACK TRACK. - GLOOMY NIGHT RIDES. - SWIMMING THE RAPPAHANNOCK. - SCOUTING AND PICKETING AGAINST GUERILLAS. - THE FIGHT AT BRANDY STATION. - FIRST CAVALRY CHARGE OF THE REGIMENT. - REORGANIZATION OF THE BRIGADE. - A RACE FOR MARYLAND. - BATTLE AT ALDIE. -DEATH OF COL. DOUTY AND CAPT. SUMMAT. - BATTLE AT MID- DLEBURG. - ADVENTURE OF CAPT. CHADBOURNE. - BATTLE AT UPPERVILLE. - AGAIN IN MARYLAND. - IN PENNSYLVANIA . . . 122
CHAPTER IX. THE CAMPAIGN UNDER MEADE.
LEE'S ARMY IN NORTHERN STATES. - CHANGE OF COMMANDERS ARMY OF POTOMAC. - VALUABLE SERVICES OF THE CAVALRY. - GETTYS- BURG. - ACROSS THE POTOMAC AGAIN. - SKIRMISH AT CHARLES- TOWN. - THE FIGHT AT SHEPARDSTOWN. - AGAIN SOUTHWARD BOUND. - ONCE MORE ON THE BACK TRACK. - COVERING THE RETREAT. - RECONNAISSANCE TO LITTLE WASHINGTON AND SPER- RYVILLE. - ANOTHER FIGHT AT BULL RUN. - SOUTHWARD AGAIN. -SKIRMISH AT RAPPAHANNOCK STATION. - PICKETING THE RAP- PAHANNOCK. - PLEASANT CAMPAIGNING. - THE CAMPAIGN IN THE WILDERNESS. - SKIRMISH WITH THE SECOND CORPS. - ATTACK IN THE REAR. - END OF THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN. - COVERING THE RETREAT. - DUTIES OF ORDERLIES 176
CHAPTER X. THE WINTER OF 1863-4.
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BUILDING WINTER QUARTERS AT BEALTON. - RE-ENLISTMENTS. - EX- PEDITION TO LURAY. - CROSSING THE BLUE RIDGE. - A SPLENDID PICTURE. - SNOW ON THE MOUNTAINS. - AT LURAY. - DESTRUC- TION. - OVER THE MOUNTAINS AGAIN. - DESTRUCTION AT SPERRY- VILLE. - ANOTHER EXPEDITION. - SEVERE COLD, BAD ROADS, AND INTENSE SUFFERING. - CAPT. TAYLOR'S ENCOUNTER WITH MOSEBY'S MEN. - WINTER QUARTERS IN EARNEST. - COMFORT- ABLE HABITATIONS. - DUTIES OF THE WINTER. - RECONNOIS- SANCE TO PIEDMONT. - VETERAN FURLOUGHS. - RECRUITS. - GUERILLAS. - THE " DAHLGREN RAID." -INSIDE THE FORTIFI- CATIONS OF RICHMOND. - THE ATTACK. - FIRST MAINE TO THE RESCUE. - BRILLIANT CHARGE OF CO. F. - FIGHTING IN THE DARK. - DEATH OF COL. DAHLGREN. - A NIGHT IN THE SWAMP. -SURROUNDED. - ANOTHER CHARGE. - KILPATRICK'S ASSAULT ON RICHMOND. - THE BIVOUAC WITHIN SIX MILES OF RICHMOND. - HALF AN HOUR'S FIGHTING BY THE LIGHT OF THE CAMP- FIRES. - DRIVEN OUT OF CAMP. - CHARGE OF COS. A AND E AT
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OLD CHURCH. - INSIDE OUR LINES AGAIN. - AT YORKTOWN. - RESULTS OF THE EXPEDITION. - A MINOR EXPEDITION. - BACK TO CAMP. - " GOOD-BY" WINTER QUARTERS . 221
CHAPTER XI.
FIRST CAMPAIGN UNDER SHERIDAN.
CHANGE IN COMMANDERS. - WHO IS GEN. SHERIDAN ? - ROSTER OF OFFICERS AT THE OPENING OF THE SPRING CAMPAIGN, 1864. - THE CAMPAIGN COMMENCED. - GEN. MEADE'S ADDRESS TO THE ARMY. -A FEW DAYS ON THE LEFT OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. - IN THE "WILDERNESS" AGAIN. - SKIRMISHIING. - FIGHT AT TODD'S TAVERN. - SUCCESSFUL CHARGE UPON INFANTRY. - SHERIDAN'S RAID TO RICHMOND. - THE FIGHT AT BEAVER DAM STATION. - LIEUT. COL. BOOTHBY FATALLY WOUNDED. - FIGHT AT GROUND SQUIRREL BRIDGE. - INSIDE THE FORTIFICATIONS OF RICHMOND. -HEAVEN'S ARTILLERY JOINS IN THE FRAY. - FIGHTING HOME GUARDS. - OUT OF THE TRAP. - GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH SHERI- DAN. - THE SOUNDS OF SHELLS FROM UNION GUNBOATS. - BRIDGE BUILDING. - " AT HOME" AGAIN. - GEN. GRANT'S REPORT OF THE RAID. - SERVICE'S OF A SEPARATE DETACHMENT OF THE REGI- MENT IN MAY . 247
CHAPTER XII.
SECOND CAMPAIGN UNDER SHERIDAN. .
ON THE ADVANCE AGAIN. - THE FIGHT AT HAWES' SHOP. -. MAIL DELIVERED ON THE BATTLE-FIELD. - THE FIGHT AT COAL HARBOR. -DEATH OF CHAPLAIN BARTLETT. - SHERIDAN'S RAID TOWARD GORDONSVILLE. - FORAGING ON FOOT. - THE FIGHT AT TREVIL- LIAN STATION. - A LIVELY ARTILLERY DUEL. - VISIT TO LOUISA COURT HOUSE. - ON THE BACK TRACK. - A WEEK OF HOT, DUSTY, TIRESOME MARCHING. - SPOTTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE A MONTH AFTER THE BATTLE. - FIGHT AT WHITE HOUSE LANDING. - FIRST DAY'S REST FOR NEARLY TWO MONTHS. - THE FIGHT AT ST. MARY'S CHURCH. - INTENSE HEAT. - THE DAY WITH THE LED HORSES. - " AT HOME" AGAIN . 275
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CHAPTER XIII. FIRST CAMPAIGN AROUND PETERSBURG.
TRIP TO THE BLACKWATER TO ASSIST KAUTZ. - LIGHT HOUSE POINT. -ON PICKET AT THE GURLEY FARM. - PICKET SKIRMISH. - A FEINT ON THE RIGHT. - A TRIP ACROSS THE APPOMATTOX AND THE JAMES. - SKIRMISHES AT MALVERN HILL. - ANOTHER MOVE- MENT ON THE RIGHT. - A FUNNY LITTLE FIGHT. - A MAIL ON THIE SKIRMISH LINE. - THE FIGHT AT DEEP BOTTOM. - Cor. GREGG WOUNDED .- A SERIOUS FIGHT ON PICKET .- RETURN OF COL. SMITH. - BACK ACROSS THE RIVER. - SKIRMISH BY MOONLIGHT. - THE FIGHT AT REAMS' STATION. - A COUPLE OF WEEKS OF PICKET. - ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MEN
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CHAPTER XIV.
CAMPAIGNS OF THE FIRST DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CAVALRY. PAGE "BAKER'S CAVALRY." - ITS ORIGIN. - REGIMENTAL ORGANIZATION. - HENRY'S RIFLES. - KAUTZ'S FIRST RAID. - FIGHT AT NOTTAWAY BRIDGE. - RETURN TO CITY POINT .- ANOTHER RAID. - ASSIGNED TO GEN. BUTLER'S DEPARTMENT. - TO BERMUDA HUNDRED. - IN FORTIFICATIONS. - UNDER ARTILLERY FIRE .- AN ATTACK AND A REPULSE. - ADVANCE ON PETERSBURG. - MOUNTED AT LAST. - SECOND ADVANCE ON PETERSBURG. - WILSON'S RAID. - FIGHT AT ROANOKE BRIDGE. - FIGHT AT STONY CREEK. - FIGHT AT REAMS' STATION. - FIGHT AT SYCAMORE CHURCH. - TRANSFER TO THE FIRST MAINE CAVALRY . 320
CHAPTER XV. SECOND CAMPAIGN AROUND PETERSBURG.
THE NEW BRIGADE. GEN. SMITH COMMANDING. - LIEUT. COL. CILLEY COMMANDING THE REGIMENT. - DEPARTURE OF THE ORIGINAL MEN FOR HOME. - THE FIGHT ON THE BOYDTON PLANK ROAD, OR THE "BULL PEN." - DRILLING, PICKETING, AND RECONNOI- TRING. - VOTING FOR PRESIDENT. - IN WINTER QUARTERS ON THE JERUSALEM PLANK ROAD. - THE FIGHT AT STONY CREEK. - THE RAID TO BELLEFIELD. - THE CHAPEL. - THE RECONNOISSANCE TO HATCHER'S RUN, AND THE FIGHT. - A DECIDEDLY DISAGREE- ABLE NIGHT. -- THE PROMPT ADVANCE OF GEN. GRANT'S RAIL- ROAD. - SIX OR SEVEN WEEKS OF QUIET LIFE. - THE ATTACK ON FORT STEADMAN . 358
CHAPTER XVI. THE LAST GRAND CAMPAIGN.
ROSTER OF OFFICERS, MARCH 20, 1865. - LEAVING WINTER QUARTERS. - WELCOME BACK TO SHERIDAN. - THE FIGHT AT DINWIDDIE COURT HOUSE. - A DAY OR TWO OF COMPARATIVE REST. - ACROSS THE SOUTH SIDE RAILROAD. - PETERSBURG CAPTURED, RICHMOND EVACUATED, AND THE REBEL ARMY FLEEING. - THE PURSUIT. - AT JEFIRESVILLE. - FIRST CHARGE ON LEE'S TRAIN. - FIGHT AT SAILDE'S CREEK. -- SECOND AND SUCCESSFUL CHARGE ON LEE'S TRAIN. - SKIRMISH AT BRIERY CREEK. - CHARGE INTO FARMVILLE. --- FORAGING MADE EASY. - THE NIGHT BEFORE APPO- MATTOX. - THE MORNING AT APPOMATTOX. - SURRENDER OF GEN. LEE. - ON THE BACK TRACK. - DEATH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. - IN CAMP NEVE PETERSBURG. - LAST EXPEDITION OF THE FIRST MAINE CAVALRY. - HONORS TO GALLANT OFFICERS. - LAST CAMP OF THE FIRST MAINE CAVALRY. - TAKING CARE OF THE PEOPLE. -CAVALRY MIN TERNLD SCHOOLMASTERS, - MUSTER-OUT. - THE RETURN HOME. ~ CONCLUSION
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