more. The trip west. The Reception at
Mt. Sterling. Moved into the town.

CHAPTER VII

THE CAMPAIGN IN TENNESSEE 137

We crossed the Cumberland Range. The patient mule. Seeing
a railroad engine with a train of cars make a dive. The
siege of Knoxville. Will you lend me my Nigger Colonel.
Re-enlistment. Recrossed the Mountains, returning to Kentucky
on the way home, on our re-enlistment furlough.

CHAPTER VIII

HOME ON A RE-ENLISTMENT FURLOUGH 155

The trip home. Reception at Worcester. The Social Whirl. We
returned to Annapolis.

CHAPTER IX

WITH GRANT IN VIRGINIA 159

The Battle of the Wilderness. The Battle of Spotsylvania
Courthouse. Johnnies caught un-dressed. The Battle of
Bethseda Church. The Johnnie who wanted to see the sun rise.
Life in the trenches during the siege of Petersburg. Wounded.

CHAPTER X

LIFE IN THE HOSPITAL 182

That ride in the ambulance. Emory Hospital. The woman with
my Mother's name. The dreadful death rate. President Lincoln's
Second Inauguration. Booth's Ride. Doing clerical work in
Philadelphia. Discharged.

CHAPTER I

LEARNING TO BE A SOLDIER

Leaving Camp Lincoln for the front. At Baltimore, Maryland. Cantaloupes
and Peaches. Annapolis, Maryland. Chesapeake Bay oysters. Assisting
negroes to escape. Doing picket duty on the railroad. A Negro husking.
Chaplain Ball arrives from Massachusetts. Assigned to the 2d Brigade, 2d
Division, 9th Army Corps.

During the winter of 1860 and 1861 there was great uneasiness felt in the
North. The South, through the democratic party, had been the ruling
section of the country most of the time since the establishment of the
Republic, but at the time of the election in the autumn of 1860 a northern
political party had won. That party was not only a northern party, but it
was an abolition party. The election of an abolition president, Mr.
Lincoln, by the North, was at once regarded as a menace to the slave
holding interests of the South, which section at once began to make
preparations to withdraw from the Union. As the spring months passed and
Mr. Lincoln, the new president, took his seat, secession was more and more
talked about. Soon the 6th Massachusetts Regiment was attacked in
Baltimore. Fort Sumter in Cha