Chapter 3

PREPARATIONS FOR ACTIVE SERVICE.

1861.--First Advance.--"Contrabands," their Hopes and Treatment. --Union Ranks Filling Up.--Promotion.--Foraging and its Obstacles.--Scouting and its Aim.--Senator Harris visits the Command.--Ball's Bluff.--Recruiting Service.--Interesting Incidents.--Camp Palmer.--"Contrabands" at Work.--Drilling near Arlington Heights.--Colonel George D. Bayard.--Fight at Drainesville. 39