Chapter XV: Capture of the Author

1863.--Fight at James City.--Music of Retreat.--Fourth Cavalry
Fight at Brandy Station.--Critical Situation.--Kilpatrick
Undaunted.--Davies and Custer.--The Grand Charge.--The
Escape.--The Scene.--Subsequent Charges and Counter-charges.
--The Cavalry Routed.--The Rappahannock Recrossed in Safety.
--Infantry Reconnoissance to Brandy Station.--Comical Affair
at Bealeton Station.--Thrilling Adventure of Stuart.--His
Escape.--Battle of Bristoe.--Casualties.--Retreat Continued.
--Destruction of Railroad by the Rebels.--Kilpatrick at
Buckland Mills.--Unpleasant Surroundings.--Sagacity and
Daring.--The Author's Capture.--Fall, Insensibility, Change
of Scene.--The End.--Introduced to Prison Life. 327

List of Illustrations.

PAGE.

1. Portrait of the Author, Frontispiece.

2. Our Cavalry Leaders, 17

3. Cavalry Column on the March, 37

4. Night Attack on Falmouth Heights, 61

5. Burial of Captain Walters at Midnight, during Pope's
Retreat, 87

6. Federal and Rebel Pickets Meeting on the Rappahannock, 119

7. Cavalry Scouting Party Halting for the Night, 173

8. Cavalry Fight at Brandy Station, 215

9. The Cavalry Bivouac, 277

10. Cavalry Battle at Buckland Mills, Va., and Capture of
the Author, 323

Bayard-Davies-Gregg Stoneman-Sheridan-Pleasonton Buford-Kilpatrick-Custer

J.A. O'Neill, N.Y.]

THREE YEARS IN THE FEDERAL CAVALRY.