CONTENTS OF VOLUME FOUR.

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Positions ot tlie Opposing Corps at Spotsylvania — Major-General John M. Jones, C. S. A., from Anderson-Cook photo.— Major-General John C. Robinson, from Brady photo.— General Burnside’s Headquarters atBethel Church, May 22d, 1864,, from Gardner photo. ("IF- Taber).

HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING AT SPOTSYLVANIA. G. NORTON GALLOIVAY .170

Illustrations: Struggling for the Works at the “ Bloody Angle ” (W. T. Trego) — Upton’s Brigade atthe “ Bloody Angle,” from sketch by G. 1ST. Galloway (F. M. Schell) —Brevet Major-General Emory Upton ,from Brady photo.—Union Hospital at Alsop’s Earm-house near the Brock road, from Gardner photo.

(W. Taber).

THE DEATH OF GENERAL JOHN SEDGWICK . GENERAL MARTIN T. MCMAHON ... .175

McAllister’s brigade at the “bloody

ANGLE”.

Illustration : Center of the Union position at Spotsylvania, May 10th, 1864 (Edwin Forbes ).

EDWARDS’S BRIGADE AT THE “BLOODY ANGLE” JAMES L. BOWEN .177

Illustration : General Grant reconnoitering the Confederate position at Spotsylvania Court House(C. W. Heed).

THE OPPOSING FORCES AT THE BEGINNING OF GRANT’S CAMPAIGN AGAINST RICHMOND . .179Illustration: Beating the Long Boll (Winslow Homer ).

The OPPOSING FORCES AT COLD HARBOR, JUNE ist, 1 S 64 .185

SHERIDAN’S RICHMOND RAID. GENERAL THEO. F. RODENBOUGH .. 188

Illustrations: Unhorsed Troopers retiring from Sheridan’s Raid (Winslow Homer) —Major-GeneralGeorge A. Custer , from Gardner photo.—Map of the Kilpatrick-Dalilgren Raid, of Sheridan’s RichmondRaid, and of Sheridan’s Trevilian Raid (Jacob Wells )—Portrait group of General P. H. Sheridan, GeneralD. McM. Gregg, General A. T. A. Torbert, General James H. Wilson , General Henry E. Davies, Jr., andGeneral Wesley Merritt, from Gardner photo.

BY A PRIVATE OF THE SIXTH VIR-GINIA CAVALRYIllustration: Major-General Fitzhugh Lee , C. S. A., from Anderson-Cook photo.

THE DEFENSE OF DREWRY’S BLUFF. GENERAL G. T. BEAUREGARD .195

Illustrations: Looking for a Friend (W. Taber) — Map of Operations at Drewry’s Bluff, BermudaHundred, and Deep Bottom in 1864 (Jacob Wells) — Major-General R. F. Hoke, C. S. A., from photo.—Confederate Roll-Call (A. O. Redwood).

BUTLER’S ATTACK ON DREWRY’S BLUFF. GENERAL WM. FARRAR SMITH .206

Illustrations : A Pifteen-incli Gun, from Gardner photo. (6. It. Malm) —Major-General John A. Dix ,from photo, by J. W. Black—Brevet Major-General Joseph K. Hawley, from photo, by Prescott & Gage—Major-General Godfrey Weitzel, from Anthony photo.

COLD HARBOR. GENERAL MARTIN T. MCMAHON ... .213

Illustrations : Fording the Mattapony, from sketch by C. W. Reed (W. Taber) — Map of ConfederatePositions at the North Anna and at Cold Harbor (Major Jed. Hotchkiss) — Map of Cold Harbor—Major-General Francis C. Barlow , from Brady photo.—Cold Harbor, June 3d, Bomb-Proofs on the line of theSecond Corps (Edwin Forbes ).

THE EIGHTEENTH CORPS AT COLD HARBOR. GENERAL WM. FARRAR SMITH .221

Illustrations : Explosion of a Bomb-shell under an Artillery Camp-tire at Cold Harbor, from sketchhy C. W. Reed (W. Taber) —View of the Union Breastworks on the Cold Harbor Line, June 1st (EdwinForbes) —Major-General Horatio G. Wright , from Brady photo.

NOTES ON COLD HARBOR. GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON .230

SHERIDAN’S TREVILIAN RAID. GENERAL THEO. F. RODENBOUGH ...233

Illustration: Map of the Battle of Trevilian Station (Jacob Wells).

THE CAVALRY FIGHT AT TREVILIAN STATION ...GENERAL M. C. BUTLER .237

Illustrations: Major-General Thomas L. Rosser , C. S. A., from photo, lent by James Blair (WyattEaton) — Waiting for liis Breakfast (Winslow Homer ).

GENERAL LEE IN THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN . .. .COLONEL CHARLES S. VENABLE .. . .240Illustrations: Uniform of the Maryland Guard, C. S. A. (A. C. Redwood) — Major-General G. W.

C. Lee, C. S. A., from Anderson-Cook photo.— Major-General Stephen D. Ramseur , C. S. A., from photo.

— Major-General Edward Johnson , C. S. A., from photo.— Brigadier-General George H. Steuart, C. S. A.,from Anderson-Cook photo.—A Call for Reenforcements, Fac-simile of a Dispatch from General Lee toGeneral Beauregard—View of Belle Plain, Potomac Creek, a Union Base of Supplies, in May, 1864, fromphoto, lent by W. II. Wliiton (O. A. Vandcrhoof).

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OF THE WAR .... GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN .

Illustrations : A Shell at Headquarters (W. Taber) — Map of tlie Atlanta Campaign — General William. Sherman at Atlanta, from photo.— Ration Day at Chattanooga in 1864 (Theo. R . Davis) — The “ Calico

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