CONTENTS.

WAR MEMORIES. By HON. THOMAS B. BRYAN, Companion
of the Third Class

THE FIRST SABRE CHARGE OF THE WAR. By

JULIUS WHITE, late Brigadier-General and Brevet Major-

General, U. S. V.

THE BATTLE OF MALVERN HILL. By SAMUEL

APPLETON, late First Lieutenant Twelfth Massachusetts

Infantry, U. S. V.

ON TO RICHMOND IN 1862. By ISRAEL N. STILES, late

Colonel Sixty-third Indiana Infantry and Brevet Brigadier-

General, U. S. V.

SIGEL'S FIGHT AT NEW MARKET, VA. BY CHARLES
FITZ-SIMONS, late Lieutenant-Colonel Twenty-first New York
Cavalry and Brevet Brigadier-General, U. S. V.

THE BATTLES OF GROVETON AND SECOND BULL

RUN. By RICHARD ROBINS, late Captain Thirty-ninth

Infantry, U. S. A.

A SCRAP OF GETTYSBURG. By RICHARD S. THOMPSON,

late Lieutenant-Colonel Twelfth New Jersey Infantry, U. S. V.

THE PETERSBURG MINE. By WALTER C. NEWBERRY,

late Colonel Twenty-fourth New York Cavalry and Brevet

Brigadier-General, U. S. V.

THE BATTLE OF REAM'S STATION. By GEORGE K.

DAUCHY, late First Lieutenant Twelfth New York Independent

Battery, U. S. V. .

FRAGMENT FROM THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.

By JOHN J. ABERCROMBIE, late First Lieutenant One Hundred

and Twenty-seventh New York Infantry, U. S. V.

141

MY HERO. By JAMES L. HIGH, late First Lieutenant and
Adjutant Forty-ninth Wisconsin Infantry, U. S. V.

REMINISCENCES OF A SURGEON. BY HORACE WARDNER,

late Major and Surgeon Twelfth Illinois Infantry and Brevet

Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. V.

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173

THE KENTUCKY UNIONIST. BY ELIJAH S. WATTS, late

Lieutenant-Colonel Second Kentucky Cavalry, U. S. V.

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PEA RIDGE CAMPAIGN.

By JOHN D. CRABTREE, late Captain Third Missouri Cavalry

and Brevet Major, U. S. V..

SOME BATTLE RECOLLECTIONS OF STONE'S RIVER.

By HENRY V. FREEMAN, late Captain Twelfth United States

Colored Infantry .

193

211

227

By

PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF VICKSBURG.

WILLIAM L. B. JENNEY, late Captain and Additional Aide-

de-Camp and Brevet Major, U. S. V.

247

267

THE NASHVILLE CAMPAIGN. By EPHRAIM A. OTIS,

late Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. V.

MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE H. THOMAS. BY GEORGE

R. PECK, late Captain Thirty-first Wisconsin Infantry, U. S. V. 289

A SKETCH OF NAVAL LIFE. By JOHN A. GRIER, late

Chief Engineer, U. S. N.

SOMETHING ABOUT OUR NAVY. By DAVID P. JONES,

Chief Engineer (retired), U. S. N.

OUR GERMAN SOLDIERS. BY WILLIAM VOCKE, late Cap-
tain Twenty-fourth Illinois Infantry, U. S. V.

THE NEGRO IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.

By ABIAL R. ABBOTT, late First Lieutenant Battery I, Illinois

Light Artillery, U. S. V.

By JOHN S. WILCOX, late Colonel

Fifty-second Illinois Infantry and Brevet Brigadier-General,

THE BOYS OF 1861

-

- AND THEIR BOYS. BY ROBERT

W. MCCLAUGHRY, late Major and Additional Paymaster,

U S. V..

REMINISCENCES OF THE FIRST YEAR OF THE

WAR IN MISSOURI. By OLIVER W. NIXON, late Major

and Surgeon Thirty-ninth Ohio Infantry, U. S. V.

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413

A LEAF FROM ARMY LIFE. By W. A. JENKINS, late

Lieutenant-Colonel Fifth Kansas Cavalry, U. S. V. .

MY SIXTY DAYS IN HADES. BY HENRY H. BELFIELD, late
First Lieutenant and Adjutant Eighth Iowa Cavalry, U. S. V.

THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES. BY ROBERT

C. HALL, Colonel Fourth Infantry, U. S. A., and Brigadier-

General, U. S. V.

INDEX.

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447

465

477

MILITARY ESSAYS

AND

RECOLLECTIONS

WAR MEMORIES.

BY THOMAS B. BRYAN.

[Read November 14, 1889.]

HE War of the Rebellion was a contest such as was never

THE

before chronicled, because never before paralleled, either in the intensity of the struggle or in the absence of justification. In no record of that eventful period do we find a clearer or more truthful presentation of the underlying principle of the so-called Confederacy, or of the alleged provocation to the unrighteous rebellion, than in the speech of that misguided but master-mind of the South, Alexander H. Stephens, in which he frankly declared as follows: "The new constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization." This, he added, was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Then, in reviewing and criticising the anti-slavery views of Jefferson, he said: "The prevailing ideas entertained by him, and by most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, morally and politically. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption