the extent of giving a brief
account of my service in the Army. Since then, members of my family and
a few personal friends have asked me to incorporate in this account
incidents that I recalled, some of which they had heard me relate,
asserting that they would be of interest to my grandchildren.

The following story is my attempt to accede to these requests. I am
naturally proud of having had the privilege of serving under the
Generals I have mentioned, and the story recited in the following pages
is in accordance with my recollection of events that occurred over
forty-five years ago.

HENRY C. MEYER.
NEW YORK, May, 1911.

CONTENTS

PAGE

CHAPTER I 1

Enlistment; Journey to Regiment; First Picket
Duty; Raid to Fredericks Hall.

CHAPTER II 8

Night after Battle of Cedar Mountain; Death of
Captain Walters at Rapidan; Retreat from
Rapidan; Battle at Brandy Station.

CHAPTER III 13

Second Battle at Bull Run; Destruction of Seymour's
Squadron; Death of Compton; A
Wounded Soldier's Heroism; Fitz-John Porter's
Message to Kilpatrick; Longstreet's Assault
on Left of Pope's Army; To Alexandria to
Refit.

CHAPTER IV 20

Refitting at Ball's Cross Roads; Skirmishing
around Centerville; Advance after Antietam;
Soldier's Opinion on McClellan's being Superseded;
Battle of Fredericksburg; Death of
Bayard.

CHAPTER V 23

Detailed at General Gregg's Headquarters; The
Stoneman Raid.

CHAPTER VI 27

Gettysburg Campaign; Battle at Brandy Station;
Wounded at Stuart's Headquarters.

CHAPTER VII 33

Battles at Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville.

CHAPTER VIII 42

Crossing the Potomac; Scenes in Frederick and
Liberty; Girls' Boarding School at New Windsor;
March to Gettysburg.

CHAPTER IX 47

Second and Third Days of Battle at Gettysburg;
Gregg's Cavalry Engagement on the Right;
Repulse of Stuart.

CHAPTER X 54

Day Following the Battle at Gettysburg; Compelling
Citizens to Assist in Burying the Dead;
Scenes in Gettysburg; Nick Finding John
Burns; Following