CONTENTS OF VOLUME FOUR.

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PETERSBURG.

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OPERATIONS SOUTH OF THE JAMES RIVER . .

l. GENERAL AUGUST V. KAUTZ . . . .533ii. GENERAL R. E. COLSTON .585

Illustrations: Union Battery near Dunn’s house, Petersburg, from Gardner photo. I IF. Taber) —Major-General M. C. Butler, C. S. A., from plioto. by C. M. Bell — Reservoir Hill, where Kautz ’s advancewas stopped June 9th, 1864, from sketch made in 1880 (J. n. Woodward) — Two Maps of the Siege of Peters-burg, Va . (Jacob 1 Yells).

FOUR DAYS OF BATTLE AT PETERSBURG. GENERAL G. T. BEAUREGARD . 540

Illustrations: View of tiie Confederate line taken up by General Beauregard, June 18th (J. D.Woodward) — Interior View of tlie Confederate lines at Grade’s Salient, from Gardner plioto. (E. J.MeeJcer ).

THE BATTLE OF THE PETERSBURG CRATER. MAJOR IVILLIAM H. POIVELL .545

Illustrations : The approach to the Crater as seen from a point south-east of the mouth of the Mine(J. D. Woodward)— Profile of the Ground between the Crater and the mouth of the Mine: two views(J. I). Woodward) — Brevet Brigadier-General Henry Pleasants, from photo.—Details of the Mine —Dia-gram of the Crater ("J. F. Bunge) — Carrying Powder to the Mine (A. B. Waud) — The Charge to theCrater (A. B. Waud) —The Confederate side of the Crater, looking toward the Union lines (J. D. Wood-ward)—The Crater, as seen from the Union side (W. L. Sheppard) — The Confederate line, as recon-structed at the Crater, from sketch by Lieutenant Henderson (E. J. Meeker) — Major-General Robert B.Potter, from Brady photo.—Relics in the Crater Museum (J. D. Woodward)—Sides and edge of twoBullets that met point to point at the Crater, from photos. (W. Taber) — The Siege of Petersburg: 1 . Sharp-shooters on the line of the Eighteenth Corps. 2. Bivouac of the Fifth Corps in the Rifle-pits (A. B. Waud).

IN THE CRATER. MAJOR CHARLES H. HOUGHTON. . 561

Illustration : Explosion of the Mine (A. B. Waud).

THE COLORED TROOPS AT PETERSBURG. GEN. HENRY GODDARD THOMAS _563

Illustrations : Guidon of Thomas’s Brigade of the Colored Division (Fred E. Sitts) — Song of the Col-ored Division before Charging into the Crater (General II. G. Thomas) — Brevet Major-General HenryG. Thomas, from plioto.—The Battle of the Crater, from an oil-painting (J. A. Elder) — LieutenantChristopher Pennell, from photo, lent by General H. G. Thomas.

ACTIONS ON THE WELDON RAILROAD. GENERAL ORLANDO B. IVILLCOX _568

Illustrations: Union picket post in front of Fort Sedgwick and facing the Confederate picket line infront of Fort Malione, from Brady plioto. (W. Taber) — Map of the Petersburg and Appomattox Cam-paigns (Jacob Wells) -Major-General Henry Hetli, C. S. A., from Anderson-Cook photo.—Major-GeneralW. II. F. Lee, C. S. A., from plioto.—General Warren’s Headquarters at Globe Tavern (A. It. Waud) —Major-General John Gibbon , from Brady photo.

GENERAL GRANT ON THE SIEGE OF PETERSBURG.

(Extract from Lieut.-Geiieral IT. S. Grant’s Report).. . ..574

Illustrations: Map of the Defenses of Richmond—Excavating the Dutch Gap Canal (A.B. Waud) —Vertical Plan of the Dutch Gap Canal — Headquarters of General Grant and Base of Supplies, City Point,on the James River, from oil-painting by Edward L. Henry in possession of the Union League Club —Union Railroad Battery, Petersburg, from Gardner photo. (W. Taber) — Major-General Orlando B.IVillcox, from Anthony photo.

GORDON’S ATTACK AT FORT STEDMAN. GEORGE L. KILMER .579

Illustrations: Mon of the Second (Union) Corps who fought at Petersburg (Winslow Homer )—Dia-gram of the Union Lines at Forts Haskell and Stedman —Fort Haskeil from Gracie’s Salient, and FortStedman from Colquitt’s Salient (J. D. Woodward) — General Hospital at City Point, from GardnerPhoto. OF Taber).

THE RECAPTURE OF FORT STEDMAN. GENERAL JOHN F. HARTRANFT .584

Illustrations: Major-General John G. Parke , from Brady plioto.—Interior of Fort Stedman, fromGardner photo. (E. J. Meeker) — Brevet Major-General John F. Hartranft , from plioto. by F. Gutekuust,lent by C. N. Farr.

THE OPPOSING FORCES AT PETERSBURG AND RICHMOND .590

THE CONFEDERATE CRUISERS.

THE CONFEDERATE CRUISERS. PROFESSOR JAMES RUSSELL SOLEY . 595

Illustrations: Captain Janies X). Bulloch, C. S. N., from photo, by Kurtz —Commander John M.Brooke , C. 8. N., from photo, by Vannerson & Jones.

CRUISE AND COMBATS OF THE “ALABAMA ”. CAPTAIN JOHN MclNTOSH KELL. . . . 600

Illustrations: Initial (A. (7. Redwood) —The Confederate cruiser “Alabama, ” after a war-time sketch(W. Taber) — Bear-Admiral Baphael Semmes, C. S. N.,-Captain of the “Alabama .” from photo, lent byMrs. John McIntosh Kell—Chart of the Cruise of the “Alabama ” (Jacob Wells) — Captain John McIntoshKell, Executive Officer of the “ Alabama, ” from photo.— Chart of the Action off Cherbourg (Jacob Wells) —ifthting in a Circle (J. (). Davidson) — Assistant-Surgeon David Herbert Llewellyn, from portrait in