322

FILE XLV

Trip to Norfolk and Richmond--Ralph Abercrombie--Miss Elizabeth L.
Van Lew 324

FILE XLVI

My muster out--Reemployment as a civilian--Ordered to Philadelphia--
Twice ordered to Washington with horse-thieves 327

FILE XLVII

Captain Beckwith convicted--Gambling--Order to take Beckwith to
Albany penitentiary 331

FILE XLVIII

Trip to Carlisle, Illinois, to unravel a fraudulent claim--John H.
Ing 335

FILE XLIX

Brevetted major--Governor Fenton's letter 342

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

H. B. Smith frontispiece
after page
The Monitor Waxsaw 28
Lieutenant Joseph H. (Joe) Barker 30
The Maples, Laurel, Md. 48
Major General M. W. Lew Wallace 78
John Woolley 82
Ishmael Day 144
Lucius F. Babcock 162
Charles E. Langley 218
Map of Richmond Defences 224
Colonel Harry Gilmor 226
Lewis Paine 256
Samuel B. Arnold 292

APOLOGY.

Fifty years ago! Gracious me! It makes me think of my age to talk of it.
Yes, just fifty years ago was enacted the greatest tragedy the world
ever saw, THE CIVIL WAR.

I entered the service at twenty and one-half years of age and served
three and one-half years.

At different times I have told of some of my experiences, which seemed
to interest. Sometimes I have talked to literary men, story writers, who
have expressed a desire to write me up in magazines and newspapers, but
lack of the romantic in my make up, notwithstanding romance might be
seen in the stories which to me wer