er, it is to
be regretted that where our gallant horsemen have done the most
brilliant things, it has been impossible for me, in many instances, to
secure reliable and detailed accounts with which to do them full
justice.

WILLARD GLAZIER.
NEW YORK, _October 8th, 1870_.

CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I.

THE WAR FOR THE UNION.--CONTEST BEGUN.

1861.--Enthusiasm of the North.--Washington Threatened.--Bull Run,
and Its Lessons.--General Scott and the Cavalry.--Enlistment
under Captain Buel.--The Harris Light Cavalry.--Leaving Troy,
New York.--Captain A. N. Duffie.--Drilling and Fencing at
Scarsdale, New York.--Bound for the Seat of War.--Philadelphia.
--Baltimore.--Washington.--Camp Oregon. 19

CHAPTER II.

CAMP-LIFE AND ITS INFLUENCES.

1861.--Our unmilitary Appearance.--First Equipage.--My Black
Mare.--Good and Evil Influences.--News-Boys.--Mail-Bag.--
Letter-Writing.--The Bugle Corps.--Camp-Guard.--Guerillas
under Turner Ashby.--Mounted Drill.--Laughable Experiences
with Horses.--Southern Egotism.--Northern Fancies. 27

CHAPTER III.

PREPARATIONS FOR ACTIVE SERVICE.

1861.--First Advance.--"Contrabands," their Hopes and Treatment.
--Union Ranks Filling Up.--Promotion.--Foraging and its
Obstacles.--Scouting and its Aim.--Senator Harris visits the
Command.--Ball's Bluff.--Recruiting Service.--Interesting
Incidents.--Camp Palmer.--"Contrabands" at Work.--Drilling
near Arlington Heights.--Colonel George D. Bayard.--Fight at
Drainesville. 39

CHAPTER IV.

THE ADVANCE TO THE RAPPAHANNOCK.

1862.--"All quiet along the Potomac."--Preparations.--Army of the
Potomac Moves!--Capture of the "Quaker Guns" at Centreville.
--Return to Defences.--Guerillas.--Their Attacks and Stratagems.
--The Bovine Foe.--Picketing: how it is done.--Sufferings.--
McClellan to the Peninsula.--Virginia Weather and the People.
--General Augur's Advance to the Rappahannock.--Lieutenant
Decker's Bravery and Death.--Night Charge on Falmouth Heights.
--Fredericksburg Surrenders.--How Citizens regard us.--Guarding
a Train to Thoroughfare Gap.--Fight and Captures at Flipper's
Orchard.--Shenandoah Valley.--The Fifth New York Cavalry,
First Ira Harris' Guard.--Death of Turner A