up Lee's Army; Wounded
Confederates Left Behind.

CHAPTER XI 58

Return to Virginia; Crossing at Harper's Ferry;
Battle at Shepherdstown; Confederate Prisoner
Reporting the Condition of a Cousin in Confederate
Army; Advance from Sulphur Springs
to the Rapidan.

CHAPTER XII 62

Transferred to General Kilpatrick's Headquarters;
Battle on Retreat from Culpeper;
Battle at Buckland's Mills; Granted
a Furlough; Recommended for a Commission;
Appointed a Second Lieutenant; Leaving General
Kilpatrick.

CHAPTER XIII 71

Joined 24th New York Cavalry at Auburn,
N. Y.; Trip to Washington; At Camp Stoneman;
March to Join Army of the Potomac;
Experience at Battle of the Wilderness; First
Sight of General Grant.

CHAPTER XIV 78

At Spottsylvania; Finding Confederate Dead in
Breastworks; Selected to Guide a Division to
a Position for Night Assault; Sent to Washington
for Ammunition.

CHAPTER XV 86

Experience at North Anna and Cold Harbor;
General Grant and Confederate Prisoner;
Crossing the James; Assault on Works at
Petersburg; Wounded; At Field Hospital;
Journey to City Point and Seminary Hospital
at Georgetown, D. C.; Removal to Dobbs
Ferry; Convalescence.

CHAPTER XVI 96

General D. McM. Gregg, General Kilpatrick,
Colonel Henry C. Weir, General Walter C.
Newberry, Colonel William C. Raulston, General
L. G. Estes, General E. W. Whitaker,
Captain Theodore F. Northrop.

APPENDIX A 103

APPENDIX B 109

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

HENRY C. MEYER _Frontispiece_

CORPORAL HENRY E. JOHNS 6

GENERAL JUDSON KILPATRICK 16

COLONEL HENRY C. WEIR 24

GENERAL D. MCM. GREGG 34

GENERAL GEORGE A. CUSTER 48

GENERAL E. W. WHITAKER 62

CAPTAIN THEODORE F. NORTHROP 66

GENERAL L. G. ESTES 70

COLONEL W. C. RAULSTON 72

GENERAL WALTER C. NEWBERRY 93

Civil War Experiences

CHAPTER I

On the day Fort Sumter surrendered I was seventeen years old, having
been born April 14, 1844. Like other boys, I prop