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CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER XXIX.

Harland's Brigade near Portsmouth. -- More Digging: - A Handsome Camp. --- The Twenty-first on Provost-Buty in Portsmouth and Norfolk. - Raid through Distal Swamp. – The Eleventh at Gloucester Point. - Twenty-first at Scwport News. -An Expedition up the James. — Fifteenth and Sixteenth go to North Carolina. -“ Accidental" Fire. -Twenty-first at Newport Barracks and Newberne. - The Sixteenth at Plymouthi. - Battle and Capture by the Rebels. - Gen. Peck's Order.
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CHAPTER XXX.

The First Cavalry Battalion. - Demoralization. Increased to a Regiment. - Fight in Virginis. - At Baltimore. - To the Field. - The Eighteenth Connecticut. - At Martinsburg. - Gen. Slilroy on Winchester. -- Prisno-Life. - Officers at Libby. - Diversions. – To Macon. — Escapes. - An Interesting Adventure
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CHAPTER XXXI.

The First and Second Artillery, Sixth, Tenth, Fourteenth, and Seventeenth, during the Winter of 1863-64.- The Second Light Battery. - The Seventh in Florida. - Battle of Olustee. - Ninth in Yew Orleans. The Twelfth at Now Iberia. - The Thirteenth in the Red-River Expedition. - Battle of Cane River. - Connecticut Regiments Home on Veteran Furlough. - Speeches and Banquets.
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CHAPTER XXXII.

The Sixteenth in Rebel Prisons. -- The Enlisted Men at Anderson ville. - Rations. — Terrible Suffering in the Stockade. - The "Dead Line." - Starvation.- Insanity.- The Patriot's Burial. — The flospital. - Officers at Macon. - Chivalry and Bloodhounds.- The Glorious Fourth." - In Charleston. - Efforts to escape. - Exchange
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CHAPTER XXXIII.

Up the James River. - The Sixth, Seventhi, Eighth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twenty-first at Bermuda Hundred. - A Reconnoissance. - The Railroad destroyed. - Battle of Drury's Bluff. - Ropulse and Heavy Lo-ees. - " Buttled up" within the Intrenchments. - Fight of the Twenty-first. - Death of Col. Arthur H. Dutton.- Losses of the Seventh. — The First Connecticut Artillery ordered to Bermuda Hundred.-- The Non-Veterans mustered out
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CHAPTER XXXIV.

The Fourteenth at Stevensburg. - The Affair at Mine Run. - How to build Winter-Quarters, and low to enjoy them. - Figlit at Norton's lord. -- First Connecticut Cavalry joins the Army of the Potomac. - Grant crosses thc Rapidan. - Struggle of the 11ilderocss.- Flank Sareli to Sputt-ylvania. - Terrible Fighting. — The Second Connectient Artillery (Nineteenthi) comes up. - Gen. Robert 0. Tyler commands a Division. - Spirited Coutest. - The First Cavalry in Front of Richmond. - To the North Anna. - Another Flank Slovement. Death of Gen. John Sedgwick.- His Character and Public Services
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CHAPTER XXXV.

The First Connecticut Cavalry.-Severe Service. - Battle of Ashland. - Brilliant Personal Encounter. - Bravery and Losses. - Battle of Cold Harbor. - Charge of the Second Connecticut Artillery. - Terrible Losses. - Death of Col. E. S. Kellogg --Casualties of the Fourteentli. - Thc Charge of Junc 3.- Losses of the Lighth, Eleventh, and Twenty-first Connecticut. - Death of Col. Burpee and Major Conversc. -Organization of the Thirtieth Connecticut.
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CHAPTER XXXVI.

After Cold Harbor. - The First Cavalry. - To Petersburg. – Exploit of the Eighth. -Charge of the Eleventh. - The Second, l'ourteenth, and Twenty-first. --The Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth at Bermuda Hundred. - Wilson's Raid. - The First Cavalry. - Bold Ride of Capt. Whitaker. -- Incidents. - l'irst Connecticut Artilery. -Siege-Work of the Summer.-Battle of Strawberry Plains. - The Tlıirtieth Connecticut at the Mine. - Death of Col. Stedmau and Lient.-Col. Moegling .
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