Recounts various events, reports, officers, and others involved with the Army of the Cumberland.

Added title page engr. The 4th and later editions have author's name on t.p.

Biographical sketches --Major-General William S. Rosecrans -- Officers of staff -- Major-General George H. Thomas -- Officers of staff -- Major-General A. McD. McCook -- Major-General L.H. Rousseau -- Officers of staff -- Major-General J.S. Negley -- Officers of staff -- Major-General John McA. Palmer -- Officers of staff -- Major-General P.H. Sheridan -- Officers of staff -- Brigadier-General R.W. Johnson -- Officers of staff -- Brigadier-General Jefferson C. Davis -- Officers of staff -- Brigadier-General H.P. Van Cleve -- Officers of staff -- Brigadier-General J. St. Clair Morton (Pioneer Brigade) -- Officers of staff -- Colonel William P. Innes (1st Michigan Engineers) -- Officers of staff -- Major-General D.S. Stanley (Chief of Cavalry) -- Colonel R.H.G. Minty -- Colonel Eli Long -- Colonel William B. Stokes -- Captain Elmer Otis -- Brigadier-General W.B. Hazen -- Brigadier-General W.P. Carlin -- Colonel H.C. Heg -- Colonel J.T. Wilder -- Colonel W.L. Stoughton -- Clonel J.W. Burke -- Brigadier-General J.W. Sill (deceased) -- Colonel J.P. Garesché (deceased) -- Colonel G.W. Roberts (deceased) -- Colonel Leander Stem (deceased) -- Army Departments -- General Rosecrans's Head-Quarters -- Quartermaster's Department -- Commissary Department -- Provost-Marshal General's Department -- Medical Department -- Artillery Department -- Signal Corps and Telegraph Department -- Army mail -- Army directory -- Army chaplains -- Head-Quarters chaplain -- United States Sanitary Commission -- Army Police Department, and its chief -- Expeditions, battles, and skirmishes -- Of the Army of the Cumberland -- Army Police record -- Of spies, smugglers, and rebel emissaries -- Miscellaneous -- Anecdotes, incidents, poetry, etc. -- Appendix -- Official report of Generals Rosecrans and Bragg, of the Battle of Stone River.