the Wilderness--Return
to Army at Hanover Junction--Panic
at Night 212

XXV--Second Cold Harbor--Wounded--Return Home--Refugeeing
from Hunter 222

XXVI--Personal Mention of Officers and Men--Rockbridge
Artillery--Second Rockbridge Artillery 234

XXVII--Oakland--Return to Camp--Off Duty Again--The
Race from New Market to Fort Gilmore--Attack
on Fort Harrison--Winter-quarters
on the Lines--Visits to Richmond 260

XXVIII--Evacuation of Richmond--Passing Through
Richmond by Night--The Retreat--Battle of
Sailor's Creek--Battle of Cumberland
Church 274

XXIX--Appomattox 286

Appendix 293

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

General "Stonewall" Jackson _Frontispiece_

Captain William T. Poague, April, 1862--April, 1863 19

Gun from which was fired the first hostile cannon-shot
in the Valley of Virginia 25

Robert A. Gibson 40

Edward A. Moore, March, 1862 60

John M. Brown (war-time portrait) 80

William M. Willson (Corporal) 98

W. S. McClintic 120

D. Gardiner Tyler 140

R. T. Barton 158

B. C. M. Friend 180

Edward A. Moore, February, 1907 200

Edward H. Hyde (Color-bearer) 220

Randolph Fairfax 240

Robert Frazer 260

John M. Brown 280

Fac-simile of parole signed by General Pendleton 291

PREFACE

More than thirty years ago, at the solicitation of my kinsman, H. C.
McDowell, of Kentucky, I undertook to write a sketch of m