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This edition is unabridged. Table of contents: (1) Battalion of sharpshooters of McGowan's brigade - Organization, equipment and drills (2) battle of the Wilderness - General movements of the army - Operations by the sharpshooters, and general results (3) Battle of Spottsylvania court house - First four days - Successes of the Northern army - Sharpshooters, etc. (4) Battle of Spottsylvania - Bloody angle - Desperate fighting, and final repulse of the Federals, etc. (5) Battle of Hanover Junction or Jericho Ford - Race for position - Race won by the Confederates - ALmost a bloodless victory - Valor of the sharpshooters (6) Tilt on Totopotomony Creek at Atlee's Station, and battle of Cold Harbor - The Unionists outgeneraled at Atlee's, and fearfully castigated at Cold Harbor (7) Battle of Riddle's Sjops begun by the cavalary and finished by the sharpshooters (8... 23) (24) Story of Mississipi sharpshooters, and letter of the correspondent of the London Morning Herald on the battle of the Wilderness (25) Mississipi sharpshooters; and second letter of London correspondent on the battle of Spottsylvania court house (26) Short sketch of Lane's North Carolina sharpshooters - Evans' Georgia sharpshooters at Appomatox court house - McRä's North Carolina sharpshooters - Closing remarks by the author. This is a black-and-white facsimile reprint of the 1899 edition. Although it has been checked manually, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.