141

XIII.--THE WINTER AT FALMOUTH 158

XIV.--THE WINTER AT FALMOUTH--CONTINUED 179

XV.--THE BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE 200

XVI.--THE BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE--CONTINUED 220

XVII.--THE MUSTER OUT AND HOME AGAIN 239

APPENDIX 251

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

After the lapse of more than forty years, I hardly hoped to be able to
publish pictures of all our officers, and have been more than pleased to
secure so many. The others, I regret to say, could not be obtained. The
youthful appearance of these officers will be remarked. All, I believe,
with the exception of Colonel Oakford were below thirty years, and most
between twenty and twenty-five.

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Colonel Frederick L. Hitchcock _Frontispiece_

The Monument _Facing title-page_

Groups of Captains 16

Group, Chaplain and Surgeons 22

Colonel Charles Albright 44

Colonel Vincent M. Wilcox 50

Colonel Richard A. Oakford 59

The Silenced Confederate Battery 62

The Sunken Road 71

Field Hospital 76

Groups of Lieutenants 120

Major Frederick L. Hitchcock 167

Don and I, and glimpse of Camp of Hancock's Division, Falmouth, Va. 171

Reunion 132d Regiment, P. V., 1891, on Battle-field of Antietam. 200

WAR FROM THE INSIDE

CHAPTER I

FIRST LESSONS; OR, DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE

I was appointed adjutant of the One Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment,
Pennsylvania Volunteers, by our great war Governor, Andrew G. Curtin, at
the solicitation of Colonel Richard A. Oakford, commanding the regiment,
my commission dating the 22d day of August, 1862. I reported for duty to
Colonel Oakford at Camp Whipple, where the regiment was then e