Chapter XIX: From the Rapidan to Cold Harbor

Opening of the Campaign. -- Organization of the Army. --
Grant's Plan. -- The Ninth Corps. -- President Lincoln
reviewing the Colored Troops. -- The Army in Motion. -- Across
the Rapidan. -- Grant and Meade in Council. -- The Wilderness.
-- Position of the Army. -- First Day's Fight. -- Arrival of
the Ninth Corps. -- Second Day. -- Movement to Spottsylvania.
-- Sheridan's Fight. -- Todd's Tavern. -- Warren engaged. --
Battle of Spottsylvania. -- Song of the Wounded. -- The Vermont
Brigade. -- Death of General Rice. -- Attack of the Second
Corps. -- A Day in Fredericksburg. -- Sanitary and Christian
Commissions. -- Getting Straw for the Hospitals. -- Movement to
the North Anna. -- Battle of Jericho Bridge. -- A Night in a
Cabin. -- Movement to Hanover. -- Battle of Bethesda Church. --
General Smith's Advance to Cold Harbor. -- Sheridan's Movement.
-- Position of the two Armies. -- First Battle of Cold Harbor.
-- Hospital Scene. -- Second Battle. -- McClellan at Cold
Harbor and the Campaign of '62. -- Grant's Operations. --
Caroline County. -- The Planters and their Property. -- The Day
of Jubilee. -- Breaking up of Society. 306