Category: Biographies
_More than He Bargained for--The War Fever and How it Affected the Boys--A Disbanded Cavalryman--Going to School in Uniform--Cousin Tom from Shiloh?--Running Away to Enlist--The Draft--In the Griswold Cavalry--Habeas Corf used._
T rained the day the third battalion of the First Massachusetts cavalry arrived at Warrenton, Va., and it rained for three days, almost without a let-up, after we, reached our d...
10. CHAPTER X._Butler s Advance on the South Side--How the Massachusetts Major-General Escaped Hanging--Returning to Grant's Army--The Fight at Hawes's Shop--A Dying Confederate's Last Reques...
9. CHAPTER IX._Sheridans Raid--Turning Out Lively--Crossing the North Anna--Massa Linkum's Sojers--The Tables Turned--The Name of Mother--A Yankee's Benediction--Pushing On Front Beaver Dam--...
13. CHAPTER XIII._Grant's Spring Opening--By the Left Flank Again--Sheridan at Five Forks--The Fall of Richmond and Petersburg--A Dangerous Ride--How Jeff Davis faced the Yankees--Chasing Lee up...
3. CHAPTER III._The Buglers' Drill--Getting Used to the Calls--No Ear for Music--A Visitor from Home--A Basket full of Goodies--Taking Tintypes--A Special Artist at the Battle of Bull Run--Hor...
2. CHAPTER II._The War Fever Again--Going to a Shooting Match--Over the Mountains to Enlist--A Question of Age--Sent to Camp Meigs--The Recruit and the Corporal--The Trooper's Outfit--A Cartl...
1. CHAPTER I._More than He Bargained for--The War Fever and How it Affected the Boys--A Disbanded Cavalryman--Going to School in Uniform--Cousin Tom from Shiloh?--Running Away to Enlist--The...
5. CHAPTER V._General Grant as Commander-in-chief with the Army of the Potomac--How Grant Fought His Men--Not a Retreating 'Man--The Overland Campaign--The Grand Finale--After the War--The O...
7. CHAPTER VII._The very Man Grant Wanted--Sheridan at the Head of the Cavalry--Lively Times in the Wilderness--Falling Back--Little Phil to the Rescue--A Close Call for the Doctors--The First...
6. CHAPTER VI.N winter quarters kitchens were erected and men were detailed from each company to act as cooks. It was easy enough to find soldiers who would sing out “here!” when the first se...
8. CHAPTER VIII.T daybreak we expected to renew the Battle of the Wilderness--if the rebels did not pitch into us again during the night. The enlisted men of our company held a council of war b...
14. CHAPTER XIV.HE news of the assassination of Lincoln reached us at Burkesville Junction--the crossing of the Richmond and Danville and the Southside railroads--April 15, 1865. The terrible i...
12. CHAPTER XII._Doleful Tales by Deserters from Lee's Army--President Lincoln's Visit to the Front--A Memorable Meeting--The Fort Steadman Assault--Lincoln on Horseback--At the Head of the Col...
11. CHAPTER XI.HAD stood the fatigues of the campaign thus far without once answering sick call, but in the latter part of July I began to feel “de misery in de bowels,” as the contrabands des...
15. CHAPTER XV.ERE at Arlington Heights the squadron of the First Massachusetts Cavalry, Companies C and D, commanded by Capt. E. A. Flint, and on duty at headquarters Army of the Potomac, was...