in Command of the Union Army--Preparation for the Coming
Struggle--Battle of The Wilderness--Strength of the Armies--Losses
--Wounding of General Longstreet--Battle at Spotsylvania Court
House--The Awful Slaughter--Sheridan's Raid on Richmond--Stuart's
Cavalry in Pursuit--General Stuart's Death--Yellow Tavern--The Author
Again a Prisoner.

CHAPTER IX.

FROM THE JAMES RIVER TO PETERSBURG.

Battle of Cold Harbor--Grant Again Repulsed--Death of Flournoy--Grant
Crossing the James--Prison Life at Point Lookout--Parole of the Sick
From the Hospitals--The Dreary Winter--Its Bright Side--How the
Soldiers and the Citizens Spent It--Mosby's Men--The Long Siege--Battle
of the Crater.

CHAPTER X.

FROM PETERSBURG TO APPOMATTOX.

Evacuation of Richmond--Retreat of Lee's Army Towards Appomattox--Lee's
Surrender--After the Surrender--Some War Stories--The Faithful
Slave.

CHAPTER XI.

THE HORSES OF LEE'S ARMY.

Their Number--Losses--Rover's Tricks--A Mighty Jaw--Her Capture--Horses
in Battle--Friendship Between Horse and Rider--Wagon Horses--Artillery
Horses--Cavalry Horses--Men Sleep on Their Horses--Horses for
Breastwork--Seventy-five Thousand Black Beauties--Monument for Lee's
Horses--A Pathetic Poem.

[Illustration: GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON,

Who preceded Gen. Robert E. Lee in command of the Army of Northern
Virginia.]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

LUTHER W. HOPKINS, Frontispiece

GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, 8

JEFFERSON C. DAVIS, 16

GEN. THOMAS JONATHAN JACKSON (called "Stonewall Jackson"), 32

ROBERT HOWARD HOPKINS, 48

THE LAST MEETING OF LEE AND JACKSON AT CHANCELLORSVILLE, 80

GEN. ROBERT E. LEE, 112

MRS. R.E. LEE, 128

GEN. FITZHUGH LEE, 144

A BATTLE-SCARRED CONFEDERATE BANNER, 161

GEN. A.P. HILL, 176

ONE OF STONEWALL JACKSON'S MILEPOSTS, 192

BISHOP ALPHEUS W. WILSON, 208

From Bull Run to Appomattox

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