R. P. Wilson, 5 U. S. C.
E. C. Taw, 67 N. Y.
J. H. York, 63 Ind.
W. J. Young, 111 Ill.
A. Young, 4 Pa. C.
T. P. Young, 4 Ky.
Aaron Zeigler, 7 Pa. V. R. C.
A. Zimm, 15 Iowa.
C. Zobel, 15 N. Y. A.
G. H. Hastings, 24 N. Y. In. Bt.

NAVAL OFFICERS.

W. E. H. Fintress, A. V. Lt.
Edw. L. Haines, Act. M.
J. F. D. Robinson, Act. M.
E. H. Sears, Ast. P. M.
Robt. M. Clark, Act. Ensg.
Simon Strunk, Act. Ensg.
E. W. Dayton, Act. Ensg.
Thos. Brown, Act. M. M.
Wm. H. Fogg, Act. M. M.
Chas. A. Stewart, Act. M. M.
Dan'l Ward, Act. M. M.
B. Johnson, 2 Act. Eng.
Jas. McCaulley, 2 Act. Eng.
Jno. B. Dick, 2 Act. Eng.
A. D. Renshaw, 3 Act. Eng.
Jno. Mee, 3 Act. Eng.
Ch. McCormick, 3 Act. Eng.
Sam. B. Ellis, 3 Act. Eng.
Henry K. Stever, 3 Act. Eng.
E. J. Robinson, Pilot.

INDEX.

CHAPTER I--Page 11.

Description of Plymouth, N. C.

CHAPTER II--Page 13.

The Battle of Plymouth--The Cavalry Pickets Driven In--Hoke Appears in our
Front with Eight Thousand Men--A Magnificent Artillery Duel--Four Days
Hard Fighting--Sinking of the Southfield and Defeat of the Fleet by the
Ram Albemarle.

CHAPTER III--Page 19.

A Description of the Battle Between the Albemarle and our Gun Boats--Death
of Captain Flusser--Captain French Cuts Loose from the Sinking Southfield
and Runs Away.

CHAPTER IV--Page 22.

Our Retreat Cut Off--A Perilous Reconnoissance by the Cavalry--Cavalry
Sent to Capture a Boat's Crew--Fleeing North Carolinians--Walking Back
into Prison Rather than to Skulk a Fight--Firing the Two Hundred Pounder
at the Ram--Squelching a Rebel Sharpshooter--A Furious Attack and Fearful
Slaughter--A Prisoner of War.

CHAPTER V--Page 32.

Marched Off Over the Battlefield a Prisoner--Among the Enemy's Dead and
Wounded--Evidences of our Deadly Work--The Rebs Go Gunning for
"Niggers"--The Johnnies Appropriating my Wardrobe--Massacre of the Colored
Troops--They are Drawn up into Line and Shot Down Like Dogs by order of
General Hoke--Caring for our Wounded and Burying our Dead.

CHAPTER VI--Page 36.

On the March--An Eighteen Mile March--Treated to a Drink of Our Own
Commissary at the End of the First Days March--Uniform Good Treatment by
our Captors--An Attempt to Escape Frustrated--March to Williamstown--The
Band at Foster's Mills Treats us to "Dixey"--Kind hearted Mrs. Piffin
Gives us All the Provisions She Had Cooked for Dinner--Hopes Some