Beginning of Our Last Campaign--Battle of Five Forks--On Picket Duty on Old Hatcher's Run Battlefield--Jubilant Rebels--Enemy's Lines Broken--Petersburg and Richmond Evacuated--In Pursuit of the Enemy--Battle of Sailor's Creek--High Bridge--General Mott Wounded--Lee's Army Breaking Up--Appomattox--Joy Over the Surrender--On the Backward March--Camp at Burkesville Junction
Departure from Burkesville--Marching Through Richmond--The March to Washington--Passing Over Old Battlefields--Camp at Bailey's Cross Roads--Grand Review of the Army of the Potomac--The Order of March--The Fifty-Seventh Ordered Mustered Out--Names of Engagements in which the Regiment Participated--Its Casualties--We Start for Harrisburg--Finally Paid and Discharged--Farewell Address of Our Field Officers
Appendix B.--Medical Report of Surgeon Lyman for year 1862 170
Appendix C.--Address of Lieut.-Col. L. D. Bumpus at the Dedication of the Regimental Monument at Gettysburg, July 2d, 1888 176
Appendix D.--Reminiscences of the Fifty-Seventh Regiment by Gen. William Birney 190
When the idea of publishing the History of the Fifty-Seventh Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers was first conceived and a committee appointed to prepare the manuscript for the same, the chief difficulty to be met with was to confine the limits of the work to such a size that the price of the book would be such that it might be placed within the means of all the survivors of the regiment.
The committee regrets that the muster-out rolls of the regiment were not accessible, nor could they be copied from the rolls at Washington, D. C.
Even if the rolls could have been copied and published in the book, it would have greatly added to the price of the work and would have required a much greater fund than the committee had on hand for that purpose.
A great deal of pains have been taken and the marches, campaigns and battles of the regiment have been carefully studied, and it is to be hoped that they will be found to be accurately described.
If the labor of the committee will meet the approval of those who have marched and fought with the gallant old regiment, it will be duly appreciated by those compiling the work.
1. J. M. Martin. 2. E. C. Strouss. 3. R. G. Madge. 4. R. I. Campbell. 5. M. C. Zahnizer. 6. B. F. Smith.