Slavery and Four Years of War Part 42

CHAPTER VII Campaign South of James River and Petersburg--Hunter's Raid--Battle of Monocacy--Early's Advance on Washington (1864)--Sheridan's Movements in Shenandoah Valley, and Other Events

CHAPTER VIII Personal Mention of Generals Sheridan, Wright, and Ricketts, and Mrs. Ricketts; also Generals Crook and Hayes--Battle of Opequon, under Sheridan, September 1864, and Incidents

CHAPTER IX Battle of Fisher's Hill--Pursuit of Early--Devastation of the Shenandoah Valley (1864)--Cavalry Battle at Tom's Brook, and Minor Events

CHAPTER X Battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864, with Comments thereon-- also Personal Mention and Incidents

CHAPTER XI Peace Negotiations--Lee's Suggestion to Jefferson Davis, 1862-- Fernando Wood's Correspondence with Mr. Lincoln, 1862--Mr. Stephens at Fortress Monroe, 1863--Horace Greeley, Niagara Falls Conference, 1864--Jacquess-Gilmore's Visits to Richmond, 1863-4--F. P. Blair, Sen., Conferences with Mr. Davis, 1865--Hampton Roads Conference, Mr. Lincoln and Seward and Stephens and Others, 1865--Ord-Longstreet, Lee and Grant, Correspondence, 1865; and Lew Wallace and General Slaughter, Point Isabel Conference, 1865

CHAPTER XII Siege of Richmond and Petersburg--Capture and Recapture of Fort Stedman, and Capture of Part of Enemy's First Line in Front of Petersburg by Keifer's Brigade, March 25, 1865--Battle of Five Forks, April 1st--a.s.sault and Taking of Confederate Works on the Union Left, April 2d--Surrender of Richmond and Petersburg, April 3d--President Lincoln's Visit to Petersburg and Richmond, and His Death

CHAPTER XIII Battle of Sailor's Creek, April 6th--Capitulation of General Robert E. Lee's Army at Appomattox Court-House, April 9, 1865--Surrender of Other Confederate Armies, and End of the War of The Rebellion

APPENDICES

_A_ General Keifer Ancestry and Life before the Civil War Public Services in Civil Life Service in Spanish War

_B_ Mention of Officers of the 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

_C_ Farewell Order of General Keifer in Civil War Casualties in Keifer's Brigade

_D_ Correspondence between Generals Wright and Keifer Relating to Battle of Sailor's Creek

_E_ Letter of General Keifer to General Corbin on Cuba

_F_ List of Officers who Served on General Keifer's Staff in Spanish War

_G_ Farewell Order of General Keifer in Spanish War

ILl.u.s.tRATIONS

Major-General George Gordon Meade, U.S.A., August 18, 1864

Brigadier-General Wesley Merritt [From a photograph taken 1864.]

Major-General Robert C. Schenck [From a photograph taken 1863.]

Major-General Frank Wheaton [From a photograph taken 1865.]

Brevet Brigadier-General J. Warren Keifer [From a photograph taken 1865.]

Major-General William H. French [From a photograph taken 1863.]

Map of Orange Grove Battle-Field, Mine Run, Va. [November 27, 1863.]

Brevet Brigadier-General John W. Horn, Sixth Maryland Volunteers [From a photograph taken 1864.]

Brevet Brigadier-General M. R. McClennan, 138th Pennsylvania Volunteers [From a photograph taken 1864.]

Brigadier-General Joseph B. Carr [From a photograph taken since the war.]

Colonel James W. Snyder, Ninth New York Heavy Artillery [From a photograph taken 1865.]

Major Wm. S. McElwain, 110th Ohio Volunteers [From a photograph taken 1863.]

Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Aaron Spangler, 110th Ohio Volunteers [From a photograph taken 1863.]

Major-General Horatio G. Wright [From a photograph taken 1865.]

Major-General James B. Ricketts [From a photograph taken 1865.]

f.a.n.n.y Ricketts [From a photograph taken 1865.]

Captain Wm. A. Hathaway, 110th Ohio Volunteers [From a photograph taken 1863.]

Brevet Major Jonathan T. Rorer, 138th Pennsylvania Volunteers [From a photograph taken 1865.]

General Philip H. Sheridan, U.S.A. [From a photograph taken 1885.]

Battle-Field of Opequon, Va. [September 19, 1864. From the official map, 1873.]

Brevet Major-General Rutherford B. Hayes [From a photograph taken from a painting.]

Brevet Colonel Moses M. Granger, 122d Ohio Volunteers [From a photograph taken 1864.]

Lieutenant-Colonel Aarom W. Ebright, 126th Ohio Volunteers [From a photograph taken 1864.]

Battle-Field of Fisher's Hill, Va. [September, 1864. From the official map.]

Major-General George Crook, U.S.A. [From a photograph taken 1888.]

Major-General Geo. W. Getty [From a photograph taken 1864.]

Brigadier-General Wm. H. Seward [From a photograph taken 1864.]

Map of Cedar Creek Battle-Field, Va. [October 19, 1864.]

Captain J. C. Ullery, 110th Ohio Volunteers [From a photograph taken 1865.]

Brevet Colonel Otho H. Binkley, 110th Ohio Volunteers [From a photograph taken 1865.]

Petersburg, Va., Fortifications, 1865

Brevet Colonel Clifton K. Prentiss, Sixth Maryland Volunteers [From a photograph taken 1865.]

Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. N. Foster, 110th Ohio Volunteers [From a photograph taken 1863.]