Chapter I: Front Matter

We Embark for the Peninsula--Yorktown--Camping in the Mud--Peach Orchard--Artillery Practice--Battle of Williamsburg

Chapter III. 29

Battle of Fair Oaks--Death of Major Culp--Increasing Sick List--Advancing Our Lines--The Seven Days' Battles--Glendale or Charles City Cross Roads--The Fifty-Seventh Under Captain Maxwell as Rear Guard--Malvern Hill--Retreat to Harrison's Landing

Chapter IV. 43

Camp Life at Harrison's Landing--Major Birney Assigned to the Command of the Regiment--Transferred to General Birney's Brigade--Evacuation of Harrison's Landing and the Peninsula--The Army of the Potomac is Sent to Reenforce General Pope

Chapter V. 53

Second Bull Run Campaign--Battle of Chantilly--Death of General Kearny--His Body Escorted to Washington by a Detachment of the Fifty-Seventh--Retreat to Alexandria--Conrad's Ferry--Colonel Campbell Rejoins the Regiment

Chapter VI. 61

On to Richmond Once More--Foragers Captured--General McClellan Superseded by General Burnside--The March to the Rappahannock--Battle of Fredericksburg

Chapter VII. 69

Camp Pitcher--The "Mud March"--General Hooker in Command of the Army--Resolutions Adopted by the Fifty-Seventh--Re-assignment to the First Brigade--Anecdote of Colonel Campbell--Drill and Inspection--Adoption of Corps Badges--The Chancellorsville Campaign--Jackson Routs the Eleventh Corps--A "Flying Dutchman"--In a Tight Place--General Hooker Disabled--General Sedgwick's Movements--A New Line Established--Strength of the Fifty-Seventh and Its Losses

Chapter VIII. 82

Back Again in Our Old Camp--Cavalry Battle at Brandy Station--The March to Gettysburg--Hooker's Request for Troops at Harper's Ferry--Asks to be Relieved from the Command of the Army--We Arrive at Gettysburg--Battle of July 2d--Strength of the Fifty-Seventh--Its Losses--General Graham Wounded and Captured--Wounding of General Sickles--Battle of July 3d--July 4th--The Confederates Retreat--General Sickles Asks for a Court of Inquiry--President Lincoln to Sickles--A Visit to the Battlefield Twenty-five Years Later

Chapter IX. 95

We Leave Gettysburg--Rebel Spy Hung--French's Division Joins the 3d Corps--Enemy's Position at Falling Waters--He Escapes Across the Potomac--In Old Virginia Again--Manassas Gap--Camp at Sulphur Springs--Movement to Culpepper--Eleventh and Twelfth Corps Sent West--Lee's Efforts to Gain Our Rear--Skirmish at Auburn Creek--Warren's Fight at Bristow Station--Deserter Shot--Retreat of the Enemy--Kelly's Ford--Mine Run Campaign--The Regiment Re-enlists--The "Veteran Furlough"--Recruiting--Presented with a New Flag by Governor Curtin--Back to the Front--General Grant Commands the Army--Reorganization--The Wilderness Campaign--Three Days of Hard Fighting--Loss in Fifty-Seventh

Chapter X. 111

The Movement to Spottsylvania Court House--General Sedgwick Killed--Hancock's Grand Charge of May 12th--Great Capture of Prisoners, Guns and Colors--The Famous Oak Tree--Ewell's Effort to Capture Our Wagon Train--Losses in the Fifty-Seventh at Spottsylvania--Movement to North Anna River--Fight at Chesterfield Ford--We Cross the Pamunkey--Skirmish at Haw's Shop and Totopotomoy Creek--Battle of Cold Harbor--Our Colors Struck and Badly Torn by a Piece of Shell--Flank Movement to the James River--March to Petersburg--Severe Fighting at Hare's Hill--Battle of June 22d--Losses in the Fifty-Seventh--Fort Alex. Hays--Petersburg--We Move to the North Side of the James--Strawberry Plains--Return to Petersburg--The "Burnside Mine"--General Mott in Command of Our Division--Deep Bottom--Other Marching and Fighting Around Petersburg

Chapter XI. 126

Recruits--Dangerous Picket Duty--Muster-out of Old Regiments--Composition of the Brigade--Expedition Against the South Side Railroad--Battle of Boydton Plank Road or Hatcher's Run--Disguised Rebels Capture Our Picket Line--Election Day--Thanksgiving Dinner of Roast Turkey--Change of Camp--Raid on Weldon Railroad--A Hard March Returning--"Applejack"--General Humphreys in Command of the Second Corps

Chapter XII. 138

Disbanding of Companies A and E--Regiment Organized Into a Battalion of Six Companies--Consolidation of the Eighty-Fourth with the Fifty-Seventh Pennsylvania--Necessity for Changing the Letter of Some of the Companies--Confusion in Company Rolls Growing Out of It--Officers of the Consolidated Regiment--Another Move Across Hatcher's Run--The Regiment Again Engaged with the Enemy--Great Length of the Line in Front of Petersburg--A Lively Picket Skirmish--Battle Near Watkin's House--Enemy's Picket Line and Many Prisoners Captured

Chapter XIII. 147

Beginning of Our Last Campaign--Battle of Five Forks--On Picket Duty on Old Hatcher's Run Battlefield--Jubilant Rebels--Enemy's Lines Broken--Petersburg and Richmond Evacuated--In Pursuit of the Enemy--Battle of Sailor's Creek--High Bridge--General Mott Wounded--Lee's Army Breaking Up--Appomattox--Joy Over the Surrender--On the Backward March--Camp at Burkesville Junction

Chapter XIV. 157

Departure from Burkesville--Marching Through Richmond--The March to Washington--Passing Over Old Battlefields--Camp at Bailey's Cross Roads--Grand Review of the Army of the Potomac--The Order of March--The Fifty-Seventh Ordered Mustered Out--Names of Engagements in which the Regiment Participated--Its Casualties--We Start for Harrisburg--Finally Paid and Discharged--Farewell Address of Our Field Officers

Appendix A.--Roster of Officers 164

Appendix B.--Medical Report of Surgeon Lyman for year 1862 170

Appendix C.--Address of Lieut.-Col. L. D. Bumpus at the Dedication of the Regimental Monument at Gettysburg, July 2d, 1888 176

Appendix D.--Reminiscences of the Fifty-Seventh Regiment by Gen. William Birney 190