Chapter 1

THE WAR FOR THE UNION.--CONTEST BEGUN.

1861.--Enthusiasm of the North.--Washington Threatened.--Bull Run, and Its Lessons.--General Scott and the Cavalry.--Enlistment under Captain Buel.--The Harris Light Cavalry.--Leaving Troy, New York.--Captain A. N. Duffié.--Drilling and Fencing at Scarsdale, New York.--Bound for the Seat of War.--Philadelphia. --Baltimore.--Washington.--Camp Oregon. 19