Around Richmond--Seven Pines--Mechanicsville
--Beaver Dam--Gaines' Mill--Fair Oaks--The Wounding of Gen. Jos.
E. Johnston--McClellan's Defeat--The Spoils of the Battle.

CHAPTER IV.

FROM SEVEN PINES TO ANTIETAM.

The Battle of Cedar Run--Jackson's Flank Movement--McClellan Moves
His Army Back to Washington--Second Battle of Manassas--The Defeat
of Pope--His Retreat to the Defenses of Washington--The Captured
Stores and Losses on Both Sides--Lee Crosses the Potomac Into Maryland--The
Stragglers of Lee's Army--A Dinner Party--The Capture of
Harper's Ferry--Battle of Antietam--Result of the Battle--Lee Recrosses
the Potomac--Lee in a Trap.

CHAPTER V.

FROM ANTIETAM TO CHANCELLORSVILLE.

McClellan Relieved of His Command--Burnside Commands the Union Army--The
Two Armies at Fredericksburg--The Blue Ridge Mountain--The
Author a Prisoner--Battle of Fredericksburg--Burnside's Defeat--Losses
on Both Sides--The Armies in Winter Quarters--How They Spent the
Winter--Company Q's Escapade--Raid Into West Virginia--Burnside
Relieved--Hooker in Command--Hooker Crossing the Rappahannock--Jackson's
Successful Flank Movement--His Mortal Wound--Hooker's Defeat--He
Recrosses the River--Losses on Both Sides--Stonewall Jackson's
Death--The South in Tears--Ode to Stonewall Jackson by a Union
Officer.

CHAPTER VI.

FROM CHANCELLORSVILLE TO GETTYSBURG.

Ninth of June at Brandy Station--Lee's Army En Route for Gettysburg--See
Map--Stuart's March Around the Union Army--Lee Crosses the
Potomac--The Union Army in a Parallel Line With Lee's--Crosses the
Potomac Below Harper's Ferry--Hooker Relieved--Meade in Command of
the Union Army--The Battle of Gettysburg--Lee's First Defeat--His
Retreat--The Midnight's Thunder Storm--His Five Days' Rest on the
North Bank of the Potomac--He Recrosses the River.

CHAPTER VII.

FROM GETTYSBURG TO THE WILDERNESS.

Both Armies Marching Back to the Rappahannock--Short Rest--Meade's
Advance--Lee Retires to the Rapidan--Meade's Withdrawal From Lee's
Front--Lee's Advance--Fighting Around Brandy Station--The Battle at
Bristoe Station--The Union Army Retires Towards Washington--Lee
Discontinues the Pursuit and Returns to the Rapidan River--In Winter
Quarters--How the Winter Was Spent--Many of Lee's Soldiers Are Permitted
to Return to Their Homes Under Care of Their Commanding
Officers for a Vacation--Mosby Appears Upon the Scene.

CHAPTER VIII.

FROM THE WILDERNESS TO JAMES RIVER.

Grant