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CITY
OF MEXICO--THE ARMY--MEXICAN SOLDIERS--PEACE
NEGOTIATIONS.

CHAPTER XIII.

TREATY OF PEACE--MEXICAN BULL FIGHTS--REGIMENTAL
QUARTERMASTER--TRIP TO POPOCATAPETL--TRIP TO THE
CAVES OF MEXICO.

CHAPTER XIV.
RETURN OF THE ARMY--MARRIAGE--ORDERED TO THE
PACIFIC COAST --CROSSING THE ISTHMUS--ARRIVAL AT
SAN FRANCISCO.

CHAPTER XV.
SAN FRANCISCO--EARLY CALIFORNIA EXPERIENCES--LIFE
ON THE PACIFIC COAST--PROMOTED CAPTAIN--FLUSH
TIMES IN CALIFORNIA.

CHAPTER XVI.
RESIGNATION--PRIVATE LIFE--LIFE AT GALENA--THE
COMING CRISIS.

CHAPTER XVII.
OUTBREAK OF THE REBELLION--PRESIDING AT A UNION
MEETING --MUSTERING OFFICER OF STATE TROOPS--LYON
AT CAMP JACKSON--SERVICES TENDERED TO THE
GOVERNMENT.

CHAPTER XVIII.
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE 21ST ILLINOIS--PERSONNEL
OF THE REGIMENT--GENERAL LOGAN--MARCH TO
MISSOURI--MOVEMENT AGAINST HARRIS AT FLORIDA,
MO.--GENERAL POPE IN COMMAND--STATIONED AT
MEXICO, MO.

CHAPTER XIX.
COMMISSIONED BRIGADIER-GENERAL--COMMAND AT
IRONTON, MO. --JEFFERSON CITY--CAPE
GIRARDEAU--GENERAL PRENTISS--SEIZURE OF PADUCAH
--HEADQUARTERS AT CAIRO.

CHAPTER XX.
GENERAL FREMONT IN COMMAND--MOVEMENT AGAINST
BELMONT--BATTLE OF BELMONT--A NARROW
ESCAPE--AFTER THE BATTLE.

CHAPTER XXI.
GENERAL HALLECK IN COMMAND--COMMANDING THE
DISTRICT OF CAIRO--MOVEMENT ON FORT
HENRY--CAPTURE OF FORT HENRY.

CHAPTER XXII.

INVESTMENT OF FORT DONELSON--THE NAVAL
OPERATIONS--ATTACK OF THE ENEMY--ASSAULTING THE
WORKS--SURRENDER OF THE FORT.

CHAPTER XXIII.
PROMOTED MAJOR-GENERAL OF
VOLUNTEERS--UNOCCUPIED TERRITORY--ADVANCE UPON
NASHVILLE--SITUATION OF THE TROOPS--CONFEDERATE
RETREAT--RELIEVED OF THE COMMAND--RESTORED TO
THE COMMAND--GENERAL SMITH.

CHAPTER XXIV.
THE ARMY AT PITTSBURG LANDING--INJURED BY A
FALL--THE CONFEDERATE ATTACK AT SHILOH--THE FIRST
DAY'S FIGHT AT SHILOH--GENERAL SHERMAN--CONDITION
OF THE ARMY--CLOSE OF THE FIRST DAY'S FIGHT--THE
SECOND DAY'S FIGHT--RETREAT AND DEFEAT OF THE
CONFEDERATES.

CHAPTER XXV.
STRUCK BY A BULLET--PRECIPITATE RETREAT OF THE
CONFEDERATES--INTRENCHMENTS AT SHILOH--GENERAL
BUELL--GENERAL JOHNSTON --REMARKS ON SHILOH.

CHAPTER XXVI.
HALLECK ASSUMES COMMAND IN THE FIELD--THE

ADVANCE UPON CORINTH--OCCUPATION OF CORINTH--THE
ARMY SEPARATED.

CHAPTER XXVII.
HEADQUARTERS MOVED TO MEMPHIS--ON THE ROAD TO
MEMPHIS --ESCAPING JACKSON--COMPLAINTS AND
REQUESTS--HALLECK APPOINTED
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF--RETURN TO
CORINTH--MOVEMENTS OF BRAGG--SURRENDER OF
CLARKSVILLE--THE ADVANCE UPON
CHATTANOOGA--SHERIDAN COLONEL OF A MICHIGAN
REGIMENT.

CHAPTER XXVIII.
ADVANCE OF VAN DORN AND PRICE--PRICE ENTERS
IUKA--BATTLE OF IUKA.

CHAPTER XXIX.
VAN DORN'S MOVEMENTS--BATTLE OF
CORINTH--COMMAND OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE
TENNESSEE.

CHAPTER XXX.
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST VICKSBURG--EMPLOYING THE
FREEDMEN --OCCUPATION OF HOLLY SPRINGS--SHERMAN
ORDERED TO MEMPHIS--SHERMAN'S MOVEMENTS DOWN

THE MISSISSIPPI--VAN DORN CAPTURES HOLLY SPRINGS
--COLLECTING FORAGE AND FOOD.

CHAPTER XXXI.
HEADQUARTERS MOVED TO HOLLY SPRINGS--GENERAL
MCCLERNAND IN COMMAND--ASSUMING COMMAND AT
YOUNG'S POINT--OPERATIONS ABOVE VICKSBURG
--FORTIFICATIONS ABOUT VICKSBURG--THE CANAL--LAKE
PROVIDENCE--OPERATIONS AT YAZOO PASS.

CHAPTER XXXII.
THE BAYOUS WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI--CRITICISMS OF
THE NORTHERN PRESS--RUNNING THE BATTERIES--LOSS OF
THE INDIANOLA --DISPOSITION OF THE TROOPS.

CHAPTER XXXIII.
ATTACK ON GRAND GULF--OPERATIONS BELOW
VICKSBURG.

CHAPTER XXXIV.
CAPTURE OF PORT GIBSON--GRIERSON'S
RAID--OCCUPATION OF GRAND GULF--MOVEMENT UP THE
BIG BLACK--BATTLE OF RAYMOND.

CHAPTER XXXV.
MOVEMENT AGAINST JACKSON--FALL OF
JACKSON--INTERCEPTING THE ENEMY--BATTLE OF
CHAMPION'S HILL.

CHAPTER XXXVI.
BATTLE OF BLACK RIVER BRIDGE--CROSSING THE BIG
BLACK --INVESTMENT OF VICKSBURG--ASSAULTING THE
WORKS.

CHAPTER XXXVII.
SIEGE OF VICKSBURG.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.
JOHNSTON'S MOVEMENTS--FORTIFICATIONS AT HAINES'S
BLUFF --EXPLOSION OF THE MINE--EXPLOSION OF THE
SECOND MINE--PREPARING FOR THE ASSAULT--THE FLAG
OF TRUCE--MEETING WITH PEMBERTON--NEGOTIATIONS
FOR SURRENDER--ACCEPTING THE TERMS--SURRENDER OF
VICKSBURG.

CHAPTER XXXIX.
RETROSPECT OF THE CAMPAIGN--SHERMAN'S
MOVEMENTS--PROPOSED MOVEMENT UPON MOBILE--A

PAINFUL ACCIDENT--ORDERED TO REPORT AT CAIRO.

Volume one begins:

CHAPTER I.
ANCESTRY--BIRTH--BOYHOOD.
My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its
branches, direct and collateral.
Mathew Grant, the founder of the branch in America, of which I am a
descendant, reached Dorchester, Massachusetts, in May, 1630. In 1635
he moved to what is now Windsor, Connecticut, and was the surveyor
for that colony for more than forty years. He was also, for many years
of the time, town clerk. He was a married man when he arrived at
Dorchester, but his children were all born in this country. His eldest son,
Samuel, took lands on the east side of the Connecticut River, opposite
Windsor, which have been held and occupied by descendants of his to
this day.
I am of the eighth generation from Mathew Grant, and seventh from
Samuel. Mathew Grant's first wife died a few years after their
settlement in Windsor, and he soon after married the widow Rockwell,
who, with her first husband, had been fellow-passengers with him and
his first wife, on the ship Mary and John, from Dorchester, England, in
1630. Mrs. Rockwell had several children by her first marriage, and
others by her second. By intermarriage, two or three generations later, I
am descended from both the wives of Mathew Grant.
In the fifth descending generation my great grandfather, Noah Grant,
and his younger brother, Solomon, held commissions in the English
army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were
killed that year.

My grandfather, also named Noah, was then but nine years old. At the
breaking out of the war of the Revolution, after the battles of Concord
and Lexington, he went with a Connecticut company to join the
Continental army, and was present at the battle of Bunker