y
I. New Orleans
II. The First Attempt on Vicksburg
III. Baton Rouge
IV. La Fourche
V. Banks in Command
VI. Organizing the Corps
VII. More Ways than One
VIII. Farragut Passes Port Hudson
IX. The Teche
X. Bisland
XI. Irish Bend
XII. Opelousas
XIII. Banks and Grant
XIV. Alexandria
XV. Back to Port Hudson
XVI. The Twenty-Seventh of May
XVII. The Fourteenth of June
XVIII. Unvexed to the Sea
XIX. Harrowing La Fourche
XX. In Summer Quarters
XXI. A Foothold in Texas
XXII. Winter Quarters
XXIII. The Red River
XXIV. Sabine Cross-Roads
XXV. Pleasant Hill
XXVI. Grand Ecore
XXVII. The Crossing of Cane River
XXVIII. The Dam
XXIX. Last Days in Louisiana
XXX. On the Potomac
XXXI. In the Shenandoah
XXXII. The Opequon
XXXIII. Fisher's Hill
XXXIV. Cedar Creek
XXXV. Victory and Home

Appendix:
Rosters
Losses in Battle
Officers Killed or Mortally Wounded
Port Hudson Forlorn Hope
Articles of Capitulation
Note on Early's Strength
Index

MAPS AND PLANS.

Map of Louisiana. Sheet I.
" " " " II.
" " " " III.
Battle Plan of Bisland, April 12-13, 1863
Battle Plan of Irish Bend, April 14, 1863
Battle Plan of Port Hudson
Map of Louisiana. Sheet IV.
Battle Plan of Sabine Cross-Roads, April 8, 1864. From General
Emory's Map
Battle Plan of Pleasant Hill, April 9, 1864. From General Emory's
Map
Battle Plan of Cane River Crossing or Monett's Bluff, April 23,
1864. From General Emory's Map
The Red River Dam
Map of Shenandoah Valley Campaign. From Major W. F. Tiemann's
"History of the 159th New York"
Battle Plan of Opequon, September 19, 1864. From the Official Map,
1873
Battle Plan of Fisher's Hill, September 22, 1864. From the Official
Map
Battle Plan of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864. From the Official
Map of 1873

INTRODUCTORY

The history of the Nineteenth Army Corps, like that of by far the
greater number of the organizations of like character, in which
were arrayed the great armies of volunteers that took up arms to
maintain the Union, is properly the history of all the troops that
at any time belonged to the corps or served within its geographical
limits.

To be complete, then, the narrative my comrades have asked me to
write must go back to the earliest service of these troops, at a
period before the corp