From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign

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William Meade Dame. From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign

From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign

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INTRODUCTORY

FROM THE RAPIDAN TO RICHMOND

CHAPTER I

SKETCH OF CAMP LIFE THE WINTER BEFORE THE SPOTTSYLVANIA CAMPAIGN

CHAPTER II

BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS

CHAPTER III

BATTLES OF SPOTTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE

CHAPTER IV

COLD HARBOR AND THE DEFENSE OF RICHMOND

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William Meade Dame

A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw

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But some one might say, “How about this narrative that you are about to impose on a suffering public, who never did you any harm? What do you do it for?”

Well, I did not do it of malice aforethought. It came about in this way. Young as I was when I went into the war, and never having seen anything of the world outside the ordinary life of a boy, in a quiet country town, the scenes of that soldier life made a deep impression on my mind, and I have carried a very clear recollection of them—everyone—in my memory ever since. As I have looked back, and thought upon the events, and especially the spirit, and character, and record, of my old comrades in that army, my admiration, and estimate of their high worth as soldiers has grown ever greater, and I felt a very natural desire that others should know them as I knew them—and put them in their rightful rank as soldiers. The only way to do this is for those who know to tell people about them; what manner of warriors they were.

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