From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America
CHAPTER I.
THE ANTE-BELLUM LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.
Birth--Ancestry--School-Boy Days--Appointment as Cadet at the United States Military Academy--Graduates of Historic Classes-- Assignment as Brevet Lieutenant--Gay Life of Garrison at Jefferson Barracks--Lieutenant Grant's Courtship--Annexation of Texas--Army of Observation--Army of Occupation--Camp Life in Texas--March to the Rio Grande--Mexican War 13