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eries: Wingfield's, Ross', Patterson's. Total number of guns, Artillery of the Third Corps, 83. Total number of guns, Army of Northern Virginia, 248. LIEUT.-GENERAL J. E. B. STUART'S CAVALRY CORPS. Brigadier-General Wade Hampton's Brigade. Brigadier-General Fitz Hugh Lee's Brigade. Brigadier-General W. H. F. Lee's Brigade, under Colonel Chambliss. Brigadier-General B. H. Robertson's Brigade. Brigadier-General William E. Jones' Brigade. Brigadier-General J. D. Imboden's Brigade. Brigadier-General A. G. Jenkins' Brigade. Colonel White's Battalion. Baker's Brigade. [NOTE.--The regimental roster of this Cavalry Corps is unfortunately unobtainable.] INDEX. [omitted] MESSRS. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS are publishing, under the general title of THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE CIVIL WAR a series of volumes, contributed at their solicitation by a number of leading actors in and students of the great conflict of 1861- '65, with a view to bringing together, for the first time, a full and authoritative military history of the suppression of the Rebellion. The final and exhaustive form of this great narrative, in which every doubt shall be settled and every detail covered, may be a possibility only of the future. But it is a matter for surprise that twenty years after the beginning of the Rebellion, and when a whole generation has grown up needing such knowledge, there is no authority which is at the same time of the highest rank, intelligible and trustworthy, and to which a reader can turn for any general view of the field--for a strong, vivid, concise by truly proportioned story of the great salient events. The many reports, regimental histories, memoirs, and other materials of value for special passages, require, for their intelligent reading, an ability to combine and proportion them which the ordinary reader does not possess. There have been no attempts at general histories which have supplied this satisfactorily to any large part of the public. Undoubtedly there has been no such narrative as would be especially welcome to men of the new generation, and would be valued by a very great class of readers;--and there has seemed to be great danger that the time would be allowed to pass when it would be possible to give to such a work the vividness and accuracy that come from personal recollection. These facts led to the conception of the present work. From every department of the Government, from
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