History of the Fifth Massachusetts Battery. Boston: Luther E. Cowles, 1902.

CHAPTER FIRST. December 29, 1861— December 22, 1865. The Battery Flags, 3; The Color Bearers, 4; The Flags Unfurled, 5; The Flags Replaced, 6 ; The Worn Colors, 11 ; Corps and Brigade Flags and Badges, 18.

CHAPTER SECOND. December 3, 1860— August 23, 1861. In 'Sixty-One, 23; The Safety of Washington, 24; The Massachusetts Legislature, 24 ; Massachusetts in the National Congress, 24; The Re- port of a Committee, 25; General Order No. 4, 26; Interview with U. S. Attorney General Stanton, 30; The Roads to Washington, 36. Uniforms, 39-40; troop departure, 40; steamer journey, 41-42; Fort Monroe, 42; Washington, capitol, 44-45

CHAPTER THIRD. April 2, 1863— June 1, 1865 The Composition of the Battery, 40 ; Light in the Field, 52 ; Artillery Tactics, 63.

CHAPTER FOURTH. August 20, 1861— December 26, 1861. Recruiting the Battery, 66 ; The Defences of Washington, 67 ; McClellan and the Artillery, 68 ; City of New Bedford, 69 ; Boston and Vicinity, 70 ; Recruiting Office in New Bedford, 71 ; Recruiting Office in Boston, 72 ; Enlistment Rolls of Lieut. John B. Hyde, 78 ; Original Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Officers, 82 ; Enlistment Rolls of Lieut. George D. Allen, 87 ; Camp Schouler, Lynnfield, 83 ; Camp Massasoit, Readville, 90 ; Horse. 92 Departure for the Seat of War, 93.

CHAPTER FIFTH. December 25, 1861— March 9, 1862. Washington, D. C, and Hall's Hill, Va., 95 ; Camp at Washington, D. C, 98 Baltimore, 98; marching, 100; camp life, 101; Washington, 102; White House, 103; quarter at Hall’s Hill, 104; horses, 105; blockade of the Potomac, 106-7; snow, 108; Fortress Monroe, 109-10; tents, exposure, 112; capturing cows, 113; artillery firing, 114-15; moral quality of the soldiers, 116; horses, 117-18; alcohol, 119; Roanoke Island, 120; visit of Adjutant General Schouler, 120-21; man kicked in head by horse, dead, 122-23; boxes, 124; guns and artillery ammunition, 125-28; Artillery horses, 128; breaking camp, 128-30; removal of Lt. Phillips, 130-32; Camp at Hall's Hill, 131 ; Washington’s Birthday, 138; The Target Shooting, 139-44, 146; Fall’s Church, 153-55

CHAPTER SIXTH. March 10, 1862— April 4, 1862. The Advance upon Richmond, 156 ; preparations for departure, 156 The President's War Order, 158 ; condemned horse, 160; guns, 162; McClellan's Address to the Army, 162 ; The Peninsula, 163 ; Centreville and Manassas, 165 ; The Embarkation, 169 ; tents, sleeping arrangements, 172; sailing of the fleet, 174-80; picket duty, 181; supports and reserves, 181-84; Great Bethel, 184-88; cat, 190; The Situation, 192 ; company orders, 194; Banks' Fifth Corps, 195; The First Gun Fired, 195; Howard's Mills, 195-204 ; building a gun trail, 202

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CHAPTER SEVENTH. April 6, 1862— May 8, 1862. Yorktown, 205 ; " In Battery," 205 ; In the Earthworks, 210 ; The Masked Battery, 213 ; sharpshooters, 215; Guarding the Bridge over Wormley's Creek by Sections, 217 ; building bridges, 221-22; Confederate defenses, Porter, McClellan, 224; lunette, 226; building a house, camp chair, 227-28; siege, 228; earthworks, 230; soldier pay, 231; The Trenches, 231-32 ; The Camp, 233-34; artillery ammunition, 235-36; making pipe; 236; food, hardtack, 238 ; Batteries of Siege Guns, 240 ; provost guard, 241; sutler, 241-42; evacuation of Yorktown, The Charge on the Right Fort, 244, Confederate earthworks, 247-49, 255; torpedoes, 248

CHAPTER EIGHTH. May 9, 1862— May 31, 1862. The Battle of Hanover Court House, 252 ; Up York River, 253 ; West Point to Cumberland Creek, 257; plantations along York River, 259; Williamsburg, 260; rain and march, 262-63; White House Landing, 263; Fifth Provisional Army Corps, 264; disease, 269; Hanover Court House, 270-73; In Hanover County, 271; march to Hanover Courthouse, 285-86

CHAPTER NINTH. May 31, 1862— June 27, 1862. The Valley of the Chickahominy, 287 ; Battle of Mechanicsville, 288 ; The Battery at the Bridge, 289 ; Guarding bridges, 291; plantation, 292; food, 293; confiscation, tobacco, 294; Leaves of Absence, 295 ; Review of the Fifth Corps, 296 ; tents, 297 On Picket at New Bridge, 299 ; In the Earthworks, 299 ; The First Death in Camp, 300 ; On Gaines Hill, 302 ; The Bridges across the Chickahominy River, 304 ; quality of Union artillery, 306; Battery No. 4, 310. Army of , 312-13

CHAPTER TENTH. June 26, 1862— June 28, 1862. The Battle of Gaines Mill, 314 ; The Situation, 315 ; In Battery, 319 ; The March, 319 ; Casualties, 320; The Retreat of the Forces, 336; wounded in Confederate lines, 350-51; death of Private Gustine, 352-53; to Savage’s Station, 356

CHAPTER ELEVENTH. June 29, 1862— July 1, 1862. The Battle of Malvern Hill, 361 ; The March, 361 ; The Navy Assists, 362 ; The Gunboats, 363 ; McClellan and the Artillery, 367 ; Casualties, 370.

CHAPTER TWELFTH. July 2, 1862— August 14, 1862. The Battery divided, 381 ; Harrison's Landing, 382 ; The Inspection, 383 ; Review by Gen. H. W. Halleck, 383 ; Gaines Mill and Malvern Hill, 384-86, Special Order No. 200 Dividing the Battery, 387 ; Officers Resigned, 388, 392 ; Lt. Hyde going home, Officers Promoted, 390; The Sick and Wounded, 392 ; recruiting, 395; enlistments, 397; An Artillery Demonstration, 398; promised reinforcements have not come, 402; flies, 403; soldier deaths, 405-6; prisoners exchanged, 406; disease, 408; food, 409; battery teams, 410

CHAPTER THIRTEENTH. August 14, 1862— September 3, 1862. From Harrison's Landing to Acquia Creek, 413 ; The Battle of Second Manassas, 413 ; The Relief of Major General John Pope, 414 ; The

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March to Williamsburg, 414; The Sick and Wounded, 415; Acquia Creek, 415; met Pope going North, 417; Second Bull Run, 418-23; The Fourth R. I. Contingent, 423; Casualties, 423; Centreville, 425; The Peril of the National Capital, 428. ; expedition for rations, food, 428-31

CHAPTER FOURTEENTH. September 3, 1862— October 9, 1862. The Battery Reunited and Reinstated, 432 ; wounded soldiers, 435The Battery Concentrated, 439 ; army desk, 441; , 444, , 445 ; Reported to Gen. Whipple, 445 ; Re-recruiting the Battery, 447 ; Emancipation, 448 ; gun not yet ready, 450; horses, 451 Full Equipment, 452 ; battery inspection, 454; marching, 455 Reported to General Morell, 458.

CHAPTER FIFTEENTH. October 11, 1862— January 25, 1863. The , 459 ; McClellan and Burnside, 460-61; Men of Massachusetts and Michigan, 464 ; Crossing the River, 465 ; Sharpsburg and Antietam, 470-71; Joined the Division at Harpers Ferry, 477; Snicker's Gap, 479; bees, 479-80; removal of McClellan 483, 486; Fitz John Porter, 486; Camp near Warrenton, Va., 483; Near Falmouth, Va., 489 ; snow, 494; Hooker in Command of the Fifth Corps, 495 ; In Battery, 496 ; Casualties, 497. Fredericksburg, 498-519; winter quarters, 520, soldier pay, 525; Benjamin F. Butler, 526; Burnside, 527; mud march, 531-40; Fredericksburg campaign, 541-43

CHAPTER SIXTEENTH. January 26, 1863 —June 13, 1863. The Battle of Chancellorsville, 544 ; Hooker, 552; log houses, 554; recruits, 561-62; strategy, 564; Falmouth, 566; A Cavalry Review, Lincoln, Hooker, 568 ; Grand Review, 569-72 ; Invalid Corps, 576 ; Seegdwick, 579; In Line of Battle, 582 ; Recrossed the River, 583; Report of Captain Phillips, 586; Reduced to Four Guns, 595 ; Drew another Section, 598.

CHAPTER SEVENTEENTH. June 13, 1863— August 8, 1863. The , General Movements 602 ; Rebels said to be in Maryland, 603 ; disposition of forces, 605; July 2, 606-11; march toward Gettysburg, 611ff Veteran Volunteers, 617 ; medal of honor, 620; Duty and the Death Penalty, 621-22; July 1-2, 622-23; July 2, 623 Positions of the Battery, 626, 651 ; July 2, 629-48" Fix Prolonge to Fire Retiring," 630; disposition of forces, 648; July 3, 652-59; dying words of a soldier, 659; wounding of John M. Canty, 659-60; July 3, 660; finding bodies, 660-662; casualties, 664; Tenth New York Battery, 664; Gettysburg, 665-67’ Fifth Massachusetts Battery Monument, 672-769 High Water Mark, 678; From Gettysburg to the Rappahannock, 680; march back from Gettysburg, Progress South of the Armies, 682; wounded soldier, hospital, 684-85; camp at Frederick City, 687; Battery returns, July 22, 1863, 691; fight at Manassas Gap, 691

CHAPTER EIGHTEENTH. August 9, 1863— November 23, 1863. The Battle of Rappahannock Station, 695 ; Massachusetts State Agency, 697; deserter executions, 698; Beverly Ford, devastation of war, 699; battery drill, 702; White Sulphur Springs, 703; artillery conditions, 705; Target Practice, 706; The Invalid Corps, 709; reconnaissance, 709-10; horses, 714; The Fight at Bristoe, 716; Maneuvering for Position, 721f ; Meade and prospects of taking Richmond, 724-25; Music in the Army, 728; Attack on the Earthworks, Kelly’s Ford, Rappahannock Station, 732ff ; Under Fire, 733.

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CHAPTER NINETEENTH. November 23, 1863— February 29, 1864. The Battle of Mine Run, 740 ; Brigade Drill, 744 ; The Crossing of the Rapidan, 745 ; In Line of Battle, 746 ; Longfellow's Son Shot, 747 ; A Fatal Mistake, 749; promptness of the batteries, 751; furloughs, 758-59; Reenlistments, 761;log houses, 762; Music for the Army, 762-63; national characteristics, 764; Christmas, 766; Money Paid by Drafted Persons, 767.

CHAPTER TWENTIETH. March 1, 1864— May 7, 1864. The , 776; Grant takes Command, 777-84; The Invalid Corps, 784; Lieut. Scott Resigns, 785; "Wanted, — Recruits." Poster, 787; Ball at General J. J. Bartlett's Headquarters, 789 ; Veteran Reserve Corps, 790 ; March 1864, expecting attack, 791; Reduction of Army Corps, 792 ; report of guard mounted, 795-96’ The Countersign, 797 ; The Demi-Brigade, 798 ; , 799ff; The Demi-Brigade Dissolved, 803 ; The Fight of May 5, 805 ; The Fight of May 6, 807 ; The Fight of May 7, 808.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST. May 8, 1864— May 18, 1864. The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House and Laurel Hill, 811-15 ; Captain A. P. Martin Wounded, 816; The Fight of May 8, 816; The Fight of May 9, 818; Casualties, 818; The Fight of May 10, 819; The Fight of May 11, 820 ; The Fight of May 12, 822 ; Casualties, 823 ; Turned in a Section, 825 ; The Fight of May 18, 826.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SECOND. May 19, 1864— May 25, 1864. The Battle of the North Anna River and Virginia Central Railroad, 827 ; The Fight of May 19, 831 ; Rounds Fired by the Battery in Eighteen Days, 833; The Fight of May 23, 834; The Crossing at Jericho Ford, 834 ; The Fifth Battery Men as Barn Movers, 835-36 ; The Fight of May 25, 839 ; Casualties, 839; Lieutenant Appleton's, account, Promotion and Resignation, 839-847.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THIRD. May 26, 1864— June 14, 1864. The Battle of Bethesda Church, 851; Officers Promoted, 857; Death of F. D. Alden, 858; Casualties, June 2, 868 ; Bethesda Church, 858 ; The Charge of the Battery, 863; The Company Fund, savings, 864.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOURTH. June 15, 1864— August 18, 1864. The Battle of Petersburg, 869; July 4, 873; Petersburg Mine, 874; The Assault of June 18, 877; Casualties, 877 ; The Fortifications, 879 ; The Norfolk Railroad Cut, 881 ; The Sanitary Commission, 886; The Army Ration, 887 ; A Work Built for the Battery, 889; The Rebel Raid into Maryland, 890; Bombardment of July 30, The Mine, 893 ; Casualties, 894.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIFTH. August 18, 1864— September 1, 1864. The Battle of the Weldon Railroad, 899 ; Expiration of Term of Service, 901; The Possession of the Weldon Railroad, 904; Casualties, 905; The Third

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Massachusetts Battery, 906; Officers Promoted, 907 ; Members of the Third Massachusetts Battery Transferred, 908.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIXTH. September 2, 1864— November 19, 1864. The Battle of Hatcher's Run, 910; Disposal of Transferred Non-Commissioned Officers, 915 ; Commission Officers Promoted, 917 ; Non- Commissioned Officers Promoted, 918; The Battery in Fort Davison, 919; Mustered Out at Expiration of Term of Service, 923; New Section (Centre) Added, 924 ; The Fight at Hatcher's Run, 924 ; The Defences of Washington, 927.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVENTH. November 4, 1864— April 6, 1865. The Assault on Petersburg, 930 ; Examination of Recruits at the Hospital, 935; The Weldon Railroad, 936; In the Advance Going Out: In the Rear Coming Back, 938; Four Guns in Fort Hays, 938 ; Two Guns in Battery 22, 938 ; Retired from the Forts, 939 ; Returned to the Forts, 940 ; Hatcher's Run, 941 ; Back to the Old Camp, 941 ; Turned in a Section 942 ; The Final Attack, 943 ; The Last Shot, 943 ; Casualties, 947.

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHTH. April 3, 1865— June 24, 1865. Guns removed from Fort Hays, 953 ; The Artillery Reserve, 954 ; The Artillery Brigade, 955 ; The Last Camp in Virginia, 956 ; The Last March, 957 ; Mustered Out of the Service, 958.

Promotions and Resignations of Commissioned Officers, 963-68 Proceedings of the Fifth Massachusetts Battery Association, 969. Roster, 979

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