FOUR YEARS OF FIGHTING -- PREFATORY NOTE. -- ILLUSTRATIONS . -- PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR ON STEEL, -- SHILOH CHURCH, -- MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL-HOUSE, -- ANTIETAM, -- SHERMAN' S BUMMERS, -- NIGHT-SCENE IN CHARLESTON, -- HUMILIATION OF RICHMOND, -- PRESIDENT LINCOLN IN RICHMOND, -- PLANS OF BATTLES. -- FREDERICKSBURG, -- FRANKLIN'S ATTACK, -- CHANCELLORSVILLE, -- SEDGWICK'S ATTACK, -- SALEM CHURCH, -- ADVANCE TO GETTYSBURG, -- WILDERNESS, -- SPOTTSYLVANIA, -- NORTH ANNA, -- COLD HARBOR, -- PETERSBURG, JULY 17, 1864, -- PETERSBURG, JULY 30, 1864, -- MUSIC . -- ROLL JORDAN, -- FREEDMAN' S BATTLE-HYMN, -- CONTENTS. -- INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. -- BEGINNING OF THE CONFLICT. -- Ideas and Principles. -- Battles witnessed. -- The Leaders. -- State of Affairs. -- Baltimore. -- Dulness in the Streets. -- Baltimore Women. -- Raw Troops. -- Visit to Fort McHenry. -- Washington. -- Material of the Army. -- Generals in Command. -- General Scott. -- His Position. -- Newspaper Reports. -- Troops organized. -- The Gathering of the Rebels. -- CHAPTER I. -- AROUND WASHINGTON. -- Alexandria. -- The Massachusetts Fifth. -- A Song for Bunker Hill. -- The Review. -- The Distant Gun. -- The Affair at Vienna. -- A Dinner in the Field. -- Vallandigham and the Ohio Boys. -- Patriotism of the Soldiers. -- The Rogues' March. -- Mutiny of the Garibaldi Guard. -- An Adventure. -- Broken English. -- Unpleasant Position. -- General Mansfield's Wrath. -- The Lager-Beer Business. -- A Faded Aristocracy. -- Living on a Name. -- The Sirens of Virginia. -- A South Carolina Chattel. -- His Search for Chickens. -- How he found Freedom -- CHAPTER II -- BULL RUN. -- The March. -- The Second Maine. -- The Pageant. -- The Bivouac. -- The Beehives. -- Beauregard's Proclamation. -- McDowell's Order. -- The Contrast. -- Virginia Unionism. -- The First Shot. -- The Artillery. -- Retreat of the Rebels.

The Negro's Story. -- Centreville. -- Snuff Dippers. -- Affairs at Blackburn's Ford. -- The Morning. -- Progress of the Battle. -- The Rebel Prisoner. -- The Turning of the Tide. -- At the Spring. -- The Panic. -- The Teamsters. -- The Rebels on the Point of Retreating -- Richmond Dispatch. -- Wonderful Stories of the Rebels. -- Change of Sentiment. -- General Butler. -- Union Men of Virginia. -- Bitterness of the Rebels. -- Seductive Influences of Slavery . -- CHAPTER III. -- THE FALL OF 1861. -- Position of Affairs. -- Disaster at Ball's Bluff. -- The News in Washington. -- How President Lincoln received it. -- His tenderness of Heart. -- Mr. Lincoln in his Springfield Home. -- His Temperance Principles. -- Poolsville. -- Colonel Baker's Body. -- Slavery in Western Maryland. -- Visit to Eastern Maryland. -- The "White Horse." -- Character of the Country. -- Our Host at Pamunkey. -- His Family. -- Visit to Annapolis. -- Aristocratic Pride. -- Secession in Washington. -- The Spirit of Slavery in the Army. -- The Hutchinson Family and General McClellan. -- Whittier's "Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott." -- Major Gould and his Scout. -- A Rebel Minister. -- Washington Jail and its Inmates. -- Close of the Year -- CHAPTER IV. -- AFFAIRS IN THE WEST. -- Louisville. -- Position of Kentucky. -- The Opinions of a Loyal Tennesseean. -- General Buell and his Policy. -- Events in Missouri. -- General Halleck. -- Order No. 3. -- General Schofield and the Guerillas. -- Negro Testimony. -- Fremont's Army. -- Visit to Rolla. -- General Sigel. -- Radical Sentiments of the Army. -- Cairo. -- Union Generals. -- Introduction to General Grant. -- Commodore Foote. -- The Mississippi Flotilla. -- Captain Porter and the Essex. -- His Challenge to Captain Montgomery. -- Major-General Bishop Polk. -- Reconnoissance towards Columbus. -- A Kentucky Farm-house. -- Return to Cairo.

CHAPTER V. -- CENTRAL KENTUCKY. -- Battle of Mill Springs. -- A genuine Kentuckian. -- Discussion of the Negro Question. -- Kentucky Farmers. -- Lexington. -- Scenes at the Phenix Hotel. -- Secession Ladies. -- Anthony Trollope. -- Tomb of Henry Clay. -- Clay's Opinion of Abolitionists. -- How a Presbyterian Minister would conduct the War. -- Buell's Right Wing. -- Trip down the Ohio. -- Passengers on Board the Grey Eagle. -- The People of Owensborough. -- Up Green River. -- Kentucky Unionists. -- Visit to Calhoun. -- A "first-class" Hotel. -- Scenes on the Steamer -- CHAPTER VI. -- THE OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN IN TENNESSEE. -- Capture of Fort Henry. -- Commodore Foote's Account of the Fight. -- His Care for the Wounded. -- His Preaching on Sunday. -- Affairs in Mississippi. -- Capture of Fort Donelson. -- Movement of the Troops. -- The Surrender. -- The Appearance of the Rebels. -- The Town of Dover. -- Scenes in the Rebel Lines. -- The formal Surrender of the Fort. -- Appearance of Buckner and Grant. -- Rebel Officers on the Rampage. -- Commodore Foote's Intentions. -- His Plans frustrated by Halleck. -- Nullification of Order No. 3. -- Occupation of Columbus. -- The Southern Muse. -- Bombardment of Island No. 10. -- Colonel Bissell's Canal. -- Passage of Transports to New Madrid. -- Running past the Batteries. -- General Pope's Operations. -- Capture of Rebels. -- Surrender of Island No.10 -- CHAPTER VII. -- PITTSBURG LANDING, FORT PILLOW, AND MEMPHIS. -- The Opposing Forces. -- The Battle-Field. -- The Poor Whites of the South. -- General Sherman. -- Beauregard's Despatch. -- Retreat of the Rebels. -- Halleck's Advance upon Corinth. -- The Mississippi Fleet. -- Admiral Davis. -- Captain Maynadier. -- A Trap for the Rebels. -- Movement of the Rams. -- Fire of the Rebel Batteries. -- Evacuation of Fort Pillow. -- Gunboat Fight at Memphis.

Surrender of the City. -- Commodore Ellet -- CHAPTER VIII. -- INVASION OF MARYLAND. -- Battle of Manassas. -- Colonel Broadhead. -- Confidence of the Rebels. -- Uprising in Pennsylvania. -- Surrender of Harper's Ferry. -- Escape of the Union Cavalry. -- Negro Teamsters. -- Excitement of the Citizens. -- Hagerstown. -- Antietam. -- Visit to the Right Wing. -- Poffenberg's House. -- Sumner's Movement. -- The Corn-Field. -- Burnside's Attack. -- The Fight at the Bridge -- CHAPTER IX. -- INVASION OF KENTUCKY. -- The Opposing Forces. -- Bragg's Advance. -- Capture of Frankfort. -- The Rebels in Lexington. -- Inauguration of Governor Harris. -- Bragg's Retreat from Frankfort. -- Battle of Perryville. -- President's Proclamation. -- The Kentucky Policy. -- General Gillmore's Order No. 5. -- Twenty-Second Wisconsin and Colonel Utley. -- Judge Robertson and his Boy Jo. -- The Kentucky Policy reversed. -- An Evening in Louisville -- CHAPTER X. -- FROM HARPER'S FERRY TO FREDERICKSBURG. -- Soldiers' Pets. -- Removal of McClellan. -- Burnside's Plans. -- Army Correspondence. -- Gold Speculators. -- Expectations of the People -- CHAPTER XI. -- BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. -- The Signal Guns. -- Laying the Pontoons. -- Bombardment of the City. -- Hall's Brigade. -- Rebel Sharpshooters. -- Crossing the River. -- Seventh Michigan. -- Yankees in Fredericksburg. -- Night Scene. -- The Drummer-Boy. -- Rev. Arthur B. Fuller. -- His Funeral Obsequies. -- Lee's Army. -- Positions of the Troops. -- Burnside's Orders to Franklin. -- The Morning. -- Movement of the Army. -- Attack on the Left. -- Franklin's Despatches. -- Meade's Attack. -- Jackson's Line broken. -- Franklin's Account. -- Wounded Soldiers. -- Attack on the Right. -- Eleventh New Hampshire. -- Sturgis's Division. -- The Last Attack. -- Recrossing the River -- CHAPTER XII. -- THE WINTER AT FALMOUTH.

Employment of the Men. -- American Tract Society. -- General Howard and the Secessionists. -- Sanitary and Christian Commissions. -- Religion in the Army. -- Chapels -- CHAPTER XIII. -- CHANCELLORSVILLE. -- General Hooker in Command. -- Reorganization of the Army. -- Hooker's Plan. -- Movement of the Troops. -- First and Sixth Corps. -- Lee puzzled. -- Hooker in Position. -- Lee's Movement. -- Jackson's March. -- Howard's Position. -- Sickles's Advance. -- Jackson's Attack. -- The Eleventh Corps. -- Sickles's Return. -- Death of Jackson. -- The Battle of Sunday. -- Best's Artillery. -- Stewart's Attack. -- The Second Corps. -- Hooker's last Position. -- Second Battle of Fredericksburg. -- Sedgwick's Attack. -- Maryee's Hill. -- Barksdale's Retreat. -- Battle of Salem Church.. -- Lost Opportunity -- CHAPTER XIV. -- CAVALRY OPERATIONS. -- Stoneman's Preparations. -- Crossing the Rapidan. -- Raid through Virginia. -- Kilpatrick's Audacity. -- Shelling Richmond. -- His Escape. -- Stoneman's Return -- CHAPTER XV. -- THE ATLANTIC COAST. -- Port Royal. -- Sunday Services. -- Rev. Mr. Murchison. -- Visit to the Plantations. -- Sancho's Address. -- Negro Music. -- Mitchelville. -- Sojourner Truth. -- Enlistment of Negro Troops. -- Colonel Higginson. -- Antipathy of White Soldiers. -- First South Carolina Regiment. -- Smith's Plantation -- CHAPTER XVI. -- THE IRON-CLADS IN ACTION. -- Destruction of the Nashville. -- Captain Worden. -- Attack on Fort McAllister. -- First Bombardment of Sumter. -- Visit to the Fleet. -- Captain Rodgers. -- Damage to the Fort -- CHAPTER XVII. -- THE INVASION OF PENNSYLVANIA. -- General Lee's Movements. -- Hooker on the Watch. -- Bedlam in Pennsylvania. -- Harrisburg. -- Baltimore. -- Colored Population. -- Resignation of General Hooker. -- General Meade. -- Feelings of the Soldiers. -- Advance to Gettysburg.

Organization of the Army.