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MAP OF THE BATTLE-FIELD OF GAINES’S MILL, SHOWING APPROXIMATELY THE POSITIONS OF INFANTRYAND ARTILLERY ENGAGED. (THE TOPOGRAPHY FROM THE OFFICIAL MAP.)

Confederate brigades: A, A, Anderson (R. H.); B, Wil-cox; C, Featberston ; D, Pryor; E, Pickett; Z, Kemper;F, G, H, J, L, Y, line of A. P. Hill ’s six brigades at theopening of tbe battle, as follows: Archer, Field, Ander-son (J. K.), Branch, Gregg, Pender; I, K, Hood and Law(Whiting’s division of Jackson’s corps), replacingArcher, Field, Anderson; M, N, O, P, Jackson’s old divis-ion, as follows: Fulkerson (3dVa*), CiumiDgkam (2dVa.),Lawton, and Winder; Q, R, S, Seymour, Trimble, andElzey; T, U, V, W, X, line at first: Ripley, Colquitt,Rodes, Anderson (G. B.), Garland. General directionsof approach are indicated by dotted lines.

Union batteries: 1, Allen; 2 , 3 , Weeden; 4, Martin; 5,5, 5 , 5, Edwards; 6, Weed; 7, Tidball; 8, Kingsbury; 9,Hexamer; 10, Upton; 11, 12, 13. 14, Kerns, Easton, De-Hart, Cooper; 15 , Diederichs, Knieriera, and Tyler; alsoVoegelee, Smead, Porter, and Robertson. Total, 124guns.

Confederate batteries: 16,17,18, Longstreet’s artillery;19, Braxton ; 20, Pegrain; 21, Johnson; 22, Crenshaw; 23,Pelham; 24, Brockenbrough; 25, Carrington; 26, Court-ney ; 27, Boudurant; also other guns not here indicated.

At 2 o’clock p. m m after a sharp engagement betweenGaines’s Mill and New Cold Harbor, A. P. Hill made thefirst severe attack on the Union center and left, andafter two hours’ fighting was repulsed in such disorderthat Longstreet was ordered up to relieve the pressureby a feint on the right, which he converted into anattack in force. Thus, up to 4 o’clock, the Confederateassault was mainly on the Union left center and left.About this hour D. H. Hill ’s division got fully into action,and Jackson’s corps (consisting of Ewell’s, Whiting’s,and Jackson’s divisions) was thrown in where neededfrom the direction of Old Cold Harbor. Major Dab-ney, Jackson’s chief-of-staff, in a letter to GeneralHill, thus describes the movements of Jackson’s corps:“ The column,” he says, “ came on the eastern extensionof Gaines’s Mill road at Old Cold Harbor, and, passingthe old tavern a little way, soon ran afoul of McClellan’sright wing, with infantry and artillery in position.Your division had taken the lead, aiul became, therefore,the left of our whole line of battle. Jackson put Ewellin position on your right. He seemed to think that A.P. Hill was to drive the enemy into his corps. But in a