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| Chapter I | 1 |
| Enlistment; Journey to Regiment; First Picket Duty; Raid to Fredericks Hall. | |
| Chapter II | 8 |
| Night after Battle of Cedar Mountain; Death of Captain Walters at Rapidan; Retreat from Rapidan; Battle at Brandy Station. | |
| Chapter III | 13 |
| Second Battle at Bull Run; Destruction of Seymour's Squadron; Death of Compton; A Wounded Soldier's Heroism; Fitz-John Porter's Message to Kilpatrick; Longstreet's Assault on Left of Pope's Army; To Alexandria to Refit. | |
| Chapter IV | 20 |
| Refitting at Ball's Cross Roads; Skirmishing around Centerville; Advance after Antietam; Soldier's Opinion on McClellan's being Superseded; Battle of Fredericksburg; Death of Bayard. | |
| Chapter V | 23 |
| Detailed at General Gregg's Headquarters; The Stoneman Raid. | |
| Chapter VI | 27 |
| Gettysburg Campaign; Battle at Brandy Station; Wounded at Stuart's Headquarters. | |
| Chapter VII | 33 |
| Battles at Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville. | |
| Chapter VIII | 42 |
| Crossing the Potomac; Scenes in Frederick and Liberty; Girls' Boarding School at New Windsor; March to Gettysburg. | |
| Chapter IX | 47 |
| Second and Third Days of Battle at Gettysburg; Gregg's Cavalry Engagement on the Right; Repulse of Stuart. | |
| Chapter X | 54 |
| Day Following the Battle at Gettysburg; Compelling Citizens to Assist in Burying the Dead; Scenes in Gettysburg; Nick Finding John Burns; Following up Lee's Army; Wounded Confederates Left Behind. | |
| Chapter XI | 58 |
| Return to Virginia; Crossing at Harper's Ferry; Battle at Shepherdstown; Confederate Prisoner Reporting the Condition of a Cousin in Confederate Army; Advance from Sulphur Springs to the Rapidan. | |
| Chapter XII | 62 |
| Transferred to General Kilpatrick's Headquarters; Battle on Retreat from Culpeper; Battle at Buckland's Mills; Granted a Furlough; Recommended for a Commission; Appointed a Second Lieutenant; Leaving General Kilpatrick. | |
| Chapter XIII | 71 |
| Joined 24th New York Cavalry at Auburn, N. Y.; Trip to Washington; At Camp Stoneman; March to Join Army of the Potomac; Experience at Battle of the Wilderness; First Sight of General Grant. | |
| Chapter XIV | 78 |
| At Spottsylvania; Finding Confederate Dead in Breastworks; Selected to Guide a Division to a Position for Night Assault; Sent to Washington for Ammunition. | |
| Chapter XV | 86 |
| Experience at North Anna and Cold Harbor; General Grant and Confederate Prisoner; Crossing the James; Assault on Works at Petersburg; Wounded; At Field Hospital; Journey to City Point and Seminary Hospital at Georgetown, D. C.; Removal to Dobbs Ferry; Convalescence. | |
| Chapter XVI | 96 |
| General D. McM. Gregg, General Kilpatrick, Colonel Henry C. Weir, General Walter C. Newberry, Colonel William C. Raulston, General L. G. Estes, General E. W. Whitaker, Captain Theodore F. Northrop. | |
| Appendix A | 103 | |
| Appendix B | 109 | |
