, 133

Edgar, John, 170

Fort Federal Hill, 112

Fort Steadman, 162

Five Forks Battle, 188

Gaines' Mill Battle, 20

Ginter, 217

Ghosts, 49

Graham, Daniel, 60

Gravelly Run Battle, 172

Grossman, Louis, 40

Harris, Wm., 135

Hatcher's Run Battle, 148

Hartshorn, 73

Hayden, Lieut., 73, 221

Hop, 135

Jones, Capt., 31

Kinsey, Capt., 73, 120

Kenedy, W. H. H., 224

M'Cullough, M. F., 31

M'Guire, J., 135

Miller, Ed., 182

Moreland, C. L., 63, 100

Mortars, 88

Mushrush, Benj., 27

North Ann River Battle, 62

Overdoff, 120

Petersburg, 85

Pattee, Col., 73, 85, 118, 179, 219

Peacock, Lieut., 118

Preston, Geo., 121

Quaker Road Battle, 171

Robbins, 215

Rowanty Creek Battle, 148

Running the Gauntlet, 90

Rutter, Wm., 85

Ramrods, 93

Stanley, John, 31, 69

Stewart, Joe, 25

Stewart, Capt., 22

Steen, David, 33

Shaffer, J., 68

Spotsylvania, 37

Walb, L. C., 204

Welden Railroad, 118

Welden Raid, 124

White, Allen, 31

White Oak Swamp Battle, 75

Wilderness Battle, 30

Woods, O'Harra, 22

Wright, Ernest, 218

Whisky, 140

INTRODUCTION.

I have long purposed the following work, designing to put in a form
somewhat permanent my recollections of experiences in the great war,
believing it may be a source of satisfaction to my children in later
years. Already many of those scenes begin to appear dim and dreamlike,
through the receding years, and many faces, once so clearly pictured in
memory as seen around the camp-fire, in the march, and on the field of
battle, have faded quite away. These things admonish me that what is
done must be done quickly.

In the following pages you will find the names of men otherwise unknown,
because their part in the great conflict was an humble one, yet none the
less grand and heroic. This is written during the brief and uncertain
intervals of leisure that may be caught up here and there amid the
pressing work of the pastorate. You will not, then, I trust, undervalue
it because of literary blemishes. It is _history_ as really as more
pretentious works. It is a specimen of the _minutiae_ of history, a story
of the war as seen by a private in the ranks, not by one who, as a
favored spectator, could survey the movements of a whole army at a
glance, and hence could, _must_,