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Over-the-Rhine -- Welcome to West Point -- No longer a plebe -- Early career in New Orleans -- Lincoln's inauguration and war begins -- From Cincinnati to New Orleans -- The capture of New Orleans -- Occupation of the Crescent City -- The LaFourche campaign -- Fighting in the bayous -- Commanding Black troops -- Destroying the J.A. Cotton -- Battle of Port Hudson -- Thibodeaux and the Sabine Pass -- Reunited: Drewry's Bluff and the spring campaign of 1864 -- Fort Fisher and Ben Butler's powder boat -- Christmas Day, 1864: attack on Fort Fisher -- The trial of Benjamin F. Butler -- Final days of war -- The fall of the Confederacy -- Entry into Richmond -- Lincoln in Richmond -- Political troubles -- Good Friday--black Friday -- Postwar life of the young general