O’Ferrell, Charles T. Forty Years of Active Service. New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1904.

PART I.

THE WAR BETWEEN THE CONFEDERACY AND THE UNION.

I. Events Preceding the War 11 PRECEDING THE WAR. The Cause of the War John Brown s Raid Brown s Expectations Beginning of Secession The State Convention to Consider the Question of Seceding from the Union Dates of Different Ordinances of Secession My Stand and Peculiar Situation A Brave Mother s Decision.

II. The Opening of the Great Drama 19 My Home in West Unique Rules and Regulations of a Hotel in 1814 Berkeley Springs "Sergeant O Ferrall" Summoned to Testify in Court-Martial Proceedings Against an Old Friend A Brave Old Man.

III. First Happenings in the Valley 26 In on Scout and Picket Duty Battle of Kernstown An Incident of Picket Duty A Single-Handed Capture I Be come a Lieutenant and then a Captain Some Captures and a "Retrograde" Movement General Turner Ashby We Note an Improvement in the Federal Wyndham Strikes a Snag.

IV. Jackson’s Work in the Spring of 62 32 A Drawn Battle with Milroy Jackson Hot After Milroy One of "Stonewall s" Prayer-Meetings The Rout of Banks Jackson Between Two Federal Forces His Masterly Strategy Ashby versus Wyndham Wyndham Captured and we Become Jubilant Our Hilarity Turned to the Deepest Mourning Over the Death of Ashby Who "Bagged" Wyndham?

V. From Cross Keys to Cedar Run 41 Jackson and Fremont Confront Each Other Near Cross Keys Battle of Cross Keys Jackson Defeats Fremont One Day and Shields the Next A Quick Move to Take Part in Battle of Games Mill Swinton Gives Jackson Credit of Saving Richmond Battle of Cedar Run The Night Attack upon Catlett Station A Ride Around Pope s Army.

VI. Second Battle of Bull Run 46 One of Jackson s Ruses to Fool the Enemy Pope is Bewildered The Second Battle of Bull Run As Viewed on the Field and at the Cyclorama in Washington Colloquy Between a Union Woman and a "Johnnie Reb" Battle of Chantilly Death of Phil Kearny A Tribute to his Memory.

VII. The Advance into 51 One of Jackson s Ruses to Fool the Enemy Pope is Bewildered The Second Battle of Bull Run As Viewed on the Field and at the Cyclorama in Washington Colloquy Between a Union Woman and a "Johnnie Reb" Battle of Chantilly Death of Phil Kearny A Tribute to his Memory. Our

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Cavalry Crosses the Potomac at White s Ford I Get a Broken Arm in a Cavalry Skirmish near Poolesville Saved from Certain Death by Gallant Sergeant- Major J. H. H. Figgatt General Ashby’s Successors Gen. William E. Jones A Brave Federal Deserter Big and Gallant Funsten.

VIII. Jones’s Raid 57 The Composition of Jones s Force His Destination a Secret The First Obstacle Encountered Our Condition on Reaching Weston I Buy a New Horse Am Beaten in a Horse-Race by my Old One Incidents on Our Raid An Encounter at Fairmount Headed for Home We Learn of Jackson s Death.

IX. 64 he Most Famous Cavalry Engagement of the war Stuart s System of "Grand Guard" Ordered Forward to Beverly s Ford SeeSawing with the Enemy for Hours A Charge and Clash A Drawn Battle I Wound a Federal Officer and the Peculiar Outcome A Case of Robbery Investigated and Restitution Effected.

X. Upperville and Incidents 70 Twelve Days of Almost Continuous Cavalry Fighting Major Von Borcke A Drink of "Mountain Dew" Two Wishes for Wounded Furloughs and What Came of Them The Fight at Upperville I Receive a Supposed Mortal Wound The Brave Timberlakes Told That I Would Die The Roar of Gettysburg Heard a Hundred Miles Away A Man Who Would Not Fight Happenings While Recovering My War Home Fate of Lieutenant Buck A Brave Color-Bearer Charles Broadway Rouss Stuart s Raid Around the Federal Army.

XI Picket and Scout Duty 86 Promoted to Major and Authorized to Raise Battalion of Cavalry Picket and Scout Duty An Experience with some Reinforcements My Command Merged into the Twenty-third Regiment of Cavalry The Scarcity of Horses and Some Prices A Raid on My Old Home Our Captures and Federal Reprisals for Same.

XII. New Market and Piedmont 94 The Battle of New Market Sigel s Force and What Opposed Him A Complete Rout for the Federals I Get a Chance to Repay the Kindness of a Federal Officer to My Mother General Hunter on the Way up the Valley The Eighteenth in a Trap Piedmont Lost Through a Gap in Our Lines Outrageous Bungling Death of General Jones I am Sent under a Flag of Truce for the Bodies of General Jones, Colonel Doyle and Colonel Brown Treated in an Ungentlemanly, Unsoldierlike Manner by General Hunter.

XIII. Lynchburg Early s Raid to Washington and Return 106 Hunter’s Vandal Hand We Pass Through Lynchburg Hunter Declines Battle Virginia Pawsing " The End of Hunter s Expedition to Lynchburg Hunter a Failure as a Soldier and Covered with Ignominy Early Defeats Lew Wallace at Monocacy and Marches on to Washington A Surprise to the Federal Authorities Our Retrograde March Marching and Countermarching The Fear the Authorities at Washington had of Early Sheridan Put in Command to Cope with Early.

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XIV. Battles of Winchester and Fisher s Hill 114 Events Leading up to Battle of Winchester The Battle Losses of Both Sides Heavy Death of Major-General Rodes An Amusing Incident with a Pathetic Sequel Battle of Fisher s Hill Our Fight Until 5 o clock in the Evening Crook s Charge on Our Left Flank the Turning Point I am Wounded by a Fragment of Shell Refuse to Have my Leg Taken off I Reach New Market Compelled to Make a Move Another Move I go to Mississippi to Recuperate "Love at First Sight," Followed by My Marriage.

XV. Events in the Valley Toward the End 126 McNeill s Rangers His Ride into Cumberland and Capture of Generals Kelley and Crook the Boldest Achievement of the War- Death of Lieutenant Meigs Some "Scraps" A Raid on My Own Account A Claim for the Soil of Shenandoah County We Hear of Lee’s Surrender and are Incredulous The Thought of Subjugation A Message from General Hancock My Address on Dis banding the Regiment Attempt to Join Johnston s Army.

XVI. Anecdotes and Incidents of Service 139 On Parole He Couldn t Run Fast Enough A Demoralized Man A Use For Tar Persimmons Wished He Was a Gal Baby A General and a Driver A Devoted Negro Servant The "Question of Lee s Army" Governor Smith He Feared the Rays of the Sun More than he did the Enemy’s Bullets A Gallant Major of the Twenty-third The Infernal "Jessie Scouts."

XVII. The Personnel of the Confederate Army ... 147 A Vast Majority of Major and Brigadier-Generals on Both Sides Comparatively Young Men A List of Seventeen under Thirty A List of Confederate Generals of Northern Birth What the Words "Confederate Soldier" stood for Some Few of the Many Stored in my Memory What Constitutes a Brave Man The Term "Rebel" Preferred to that of "Secessionist" A Poem The Oath of Allegiance.

XVIII. A Trying Episode After the War 155 I am Indicted at my Old Home for Acts of War Requisition made on the Governor of Virginia for me I Call on the Governor His Advice My Petition to President Johnson and the Result A Change in Sentiment at My Old Home A Tribute to Governor Pierpont.

XIX. The Horrors of War 161 Chickamauga An Exhibition of Valor and Courage The American Soldier Unequaled in Fighting Qualities His Ability to Stand Privations His Obedience to Orders An End to His Powers The Only Solemn Hour The Humors and Witticisms of Camp he Noble Marylanders.

XX. Conclusions Drawn from the Great Conflict 170 The Question of which Side was Right Will Remain Unsettled to the End of Time A Reunited People The Bitter Memories of the South The Spirit of the South not Crushed Lincoln s Death a Great Disaster to the South His Death the Spring from which Flowed the Countless Woes of Reconstruction The Whole Struggle Without a Parallel in the Annals of War The Foremost Chieftains of the South and North All Loyal to the Flag that Floats over the Country.

PART II

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THE AUTHOR S OFFICIAL LIFE I. Washington College General Lee 181 My First Official Position I Run for Office at the Age of Seventeen Graduated from Washington College General Lee as a College President His Influence Over the Students Incidents of his Administration The Graduates of My Law Class.

II. In the Legislature and on the Bench 191 Beginning the Practice of Law Rockingham County, Virginia In the Legislature Virginia s Debt The Make-up of the Legislature Raleigh T. Daniel I go Upon the Bench Judicial Duties A Notable Case The Effort to Save a Woman From the Gallows A Brave Wife s Loyalty and Devotion.

III. State Politics from 1877 to 1882 208 A Memorable Political Convention A Fight for the Gubernatorial Nomination Mahoneites versus Danielites Mahone s Political Ambition Formation of the "Readjuster" Party Mahone s Purpose The State Convention of 1881 Daniel versus Cameron I Make the Race for Congress A Hot Campaign Defeated at the Polls, but Win on a Contest Anecdotes of the Campaign.

IV. The Rise and Fall of Mahone 220 About "Affairs of Honor" John S. Wise s Courageous Declaration on the Subject The State Wrested from the Readjuster Mahone Throws off his Cloak A Majority of One and who Cast the Deciding Vote Fitz Lee Nominated An Account of a Joint Debate Mahone’s Fall.

V. From Congress to the Gubernatorial Chair . . 228 Re-elected to My Fifth Term in Congress I Announce My Candidacy for the Nomination for Governor Shall the Office Seek the Man or the Man the Office My Pride in Virginia My Rivals for the Nomination Free Silver in the Convention My Canvass Inaugurated as Governor The Zenith of My Political Ambition My First Regular Message The Coal Strike of 1895 Coxey s Army The Question of Pardons Some Unique Cases Oyster Disturbances "Wise s Oyster Fundum Views."

VI. Events of Forty-eighth to Fifty-third Congresses 250 My First Seat in Congress Obtained Through a Contest Committee Assignments The Aesthetic Committee The Portrait of Dolly Madison The McGarrahan Claim The "Eads Bill" Speaker Carlisle s Contest Mr. McKinley Loses his Seat on a Contest The Fifty-first Congress Becomes Republican The Stormiest Congress in the History of the Government Speaker Reed s Classifica tion of Members A Clash with the Speaker Mr- McKinley Pours Oil upon the Troubled Waters We Gain our Point, but to no Purpose Filibustering to Kill a Force Bill "Second Democratic Secession from the Union" My Estimate of Thomas B. Reed.

VII. Some Notable Contested Election Cases .... 266 The Democrats in Power Again Crisp Elected Speaker Dawning of the Day of Recognition of the South Reed s Desire as to Democratic Speakership I am made Chairman of Committee on Elections The Celebrated Case of Noyes versus Rockwell The Facts The Origin of "Where am I at" Bourke Cochran s Speech for Rockwell My Reply and the Effect of a Happy Anecdote Old John Robinson s Plan to Carry an Election The Case of Waddill versus Wise.

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VIII. Incidents of the Fifty-second Congress .... 279 The Occasion of a Long "Deadlock" The Direct Tax Bill The French Spoliation Claims William S. Holman, the "Watch-dog of the Treasury" Pension Bills The Number of Pensioners Double the Number of Confederate Soldiers on the Rolls During the War The "Dependent Pension Bill" Vetoed by President Cleveland.

IX. The Tariff, Free Silver, Etc 286 Protection Discussed Until a Thread-bare Subject The Morrison Tariff Bill the First Measure I Vote for The South s Obligation to Mr. Randall "Tariff for Revenue Only" the Slogan of the Democratic Party in 1885 The Most Notable Speeches on the Subject of the Tariff The Rise of the Silver Question The Silverites Become Aggressive After the Repeal of the Purchase Clause in 1893 Mr. Bryan s Intention to Stump Virginia Against me The "Danville Riot" of 1885 Its Discussion in Congress The Internal Revenue Tax "Moonshiners."

X. The Force Bill Direct Tax Bill French Spoliation Claims the Navy Patronage 299 The Force Bill Again A Menace to the South Credit Due to Senators Gorman and Stewart for its Defeat The Naval Question The Turreted Ironclad and Monitor the Creations of Necessity Mr. Whitney the Pioneer of the New Navy Hon. Hilary A. Herbert’s Great Service in its Behalf The Strength of the Present Navy An Occurrence During the Discussion of Naval Appropriations "Private" John Allen s Stinging Rebuke The Question of Patronage a Perplexing One To the Victors Belong the Spoils.

XI Congress a Brainy Body Some Instances . . 307 The Varied Attainments of Members S. S. Cox the most Versatile man with whom I served J. Randolph Tucker a Close Second "Tim" Tarsney and John Allen Swap Anecdotes John S. Barbour and D. B. Culberson Isador Raynor Benjamin Butterworth David B. Henderson Joseph D. Sayers John Dalzell Charles H. Grosvenor Henry G. Turner James D. Richardson William P. Hepburn Charles E. Hooker Sereno Payne Daniel N. Lockwood and John DeWitt Warner Joseph Wheeler John A. Hemphill A "Rough Diamond" W. H. F. Lee W. L. Wilson Henry St. George Tucker William A. Jones Paul C. Edmunds Connally F. Trigg Thomas Croxton Edward C. Venable Posey G. Lester Joseph D. Brady James F. Epes George E. Bowden James W. Marshall Claude A. Swanson John G. Carlisle What I Think of Freedom of Speech.

XII. Arthur and Harrison Grover Cleveland . . 332 My Impression of President Arthur President Harrison The South’s Fear of him I can Write Without Reserve of President Cleveland A Mountaineer s Judgment of Him His Pension Vetoes Justified The Veto of the Dependent Pension Bill The Proposition to Return Confederate Battle- Flags Chicago Strike Venezuela and the Monroe Doctrine.

XIII. Bond Issue Currency Question 344 Reason for Bond Issue President Cleveland Denounced for it His Opposition to Free Silver His Personal Traits Patronage Incidents Secretary Lamar Secretary Manning A Prima Facie Case Acrostic.

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XIV. Conclusion President McKinley General Daniel Morgan 354 My High Esteem of President McKinley A National President Spanish-American War The Potentiality of the Words "I Object" General Daniel Morgan of Revolutionary Fame A Wonderful Character An Incident of a Democratic Caucus The Death of Representative Taulbee A Most Unique Character Mrs. General Custer Some "Cranks" in Congress Everlasting Talkers The Effective and Influential Member Close of My Official Life A Proud Reflection.

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