shby.--Strange
Cavalry Tactics.--Personal Bravery of Captain Hammond.--End
of the Peninsular Campaign. 49

CHAPTER V.

POPE'S CAMPAIGN IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA.

1862.--Kilpatrick at Beaver Dam.--Captain John S. Mosby.--Return
of the Raiders.--Complimentary Orders.--The Harris Light at
Anderson's Turnout.--Rebel Account of the Scare.--General
John P. Hatch, his Misfortunes and Justification.--
Reconnoissances.--Battle of Cedar Mountain.--Hospital at
Culpepper.--General Stuart in Close Quarters.--His Adjutant-
General Captured.--Death of Captain Charles Walters.--Pope
driven back and waiting for Reinforcements.--Kilpatrick's
Fight at Brandy Station.--Waterloo Bridge.--Bristoe Station.
--Manassas Junction.--Battle of Groveton.--Second Bull Run.
--Chantilly and Death of Kearny.--General Pope resigns. 72

CHAPTER VI.

REBEL INVASION OF MARYLAND.

1862.--Result of Pope's Campaign.--Rest and Recruit at Hall's
Hill.--"My Maryland;" Its Invasion.--Offensive Policy of
the Rebellion.--Pennsylvania and the Whole Country Aroused.
--Battle of South Mountain.--Harper's Ferry.--Colonel Miles.
--His Treachery and Death.--Bloody Battle of Antietam.--
Drilling Recruits.--The Harris Light again at the Front.--At
Chantilly.-- Sudley Church.--Leesburg.--McClellan again
Relieved from Command. 95

CHAPTER VII.

McCLELLAN SUCCEEDED BY BURNSIDE.

1862.--Burnside's First Campaign.--Army of the Potomac in Three
Divisions.--Advance from Warrenton to Falmouth.--General
Stahel's Raid to the Shenandoah.--Laying Pontoons across
the Rappahannock under Fire.--Battle of Fredericksburg.--
Daring Feats and General Heroism.--Death of General Bayard.
--The Hospitals.--Sanitary and Christian Commissions.--Camp
"Bayard."--Camp-Fires.--Winter Quarters.--Friendly Relations
of Pickets.--Trading.--Pay-Day.--"Stuck in the Mud." 105

CHAPTER VIII.

ORGANIZATION OF A CAVALRY CORPS.

1863.--General Hooker assumes Command of the Army of the
Potomac.--Demoralization.--Reorganization.--A Cavalry Corps.
--General George D. Stoneman in Command.--Death of Sergeant
May.--Forests of the Old Dominion.--The Cavalryman and his
Faithful Horse.--Scenes in Winter Quarters.--Kilpatrick.--
His Character.--Qualifications of the True Soldier