t Reconnoissance and Raid.
--Hard Fighting and Narrow Escape.--Needed Rest Received.--The
Paymaster.--Rebel Plan of Attack Foiled by a Citizen Informer.
--Suspicious Activity on Our Front. 298

CHAPTER XV.

CAPTURE OF THE AUTHOR.

1863.--Fight at James City.--Music of Retreat.--Fourth Cavalry
Fight at Brandy Station.--Critical Situation.--Kilpatrick
Undaunted.--Davies and Custer.--The Grand Charge.--The
Escape.--The Scene.--Subsequent Charges and Counter-charges.
--The Cavalry Routed.--The Rappahannock Recrossed in Safety.
--Infantry Reconnoissance to Brandy Station.--Comical Affair
at Bealeton Station.--Thrilling Adventure of Stuart.--His
Escape.--Battle of Bristoe.--Casualties.--Retreat Continued.
--Destruction of Railroad by the Rebels.--Kilpatrick at
Buckland Mills.--Unpleasant Surroundings.--Sagacity and
Daring.--The Author's Capture.--Fall, Insensibility, Change
of Scene.--The End.--Introduced to Prison Life. 327

List of Illustrations.

PAGE.

1. Portrait of the Author, Frontispiece.

2. Our Cavalry Leaders, 17

3. Cavalry Column on the March, 37

4. Night Attack on Falmouth Heights, 61

5. Burial of Captain Walters at Midnight, during Pope's
Retreat, 87

6. Federal and Rebel Pickets Meeting on the Rappahannock, 119

7. Cavalry Scouting Party Halting for the Night, 173

8. Cavalry Fight at Brandy Station, 215

9. The Cavalry Bivouac, 277

10. Cavalry Battle at Buckland Mills, Va., and Capture of
the Author, 323

[Illustration: OUR CAVALRY LEADERS.

Bayard-Davies-Gregg
Stoneman-Sheridan-Pleasonton
Buford-Kilpatrick-Custer

J.A. O'Neill,
N.Y.]

THREE YEARS IN THE FEDERAL CAVALRY.

CHAPTER I.

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.--Harris Light Cavalry.--Leaving Troy, New York.--
Captain A. N. Duffie.--Drilling an