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

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