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UNION FIELD-HOSPITAL AT SAVAGE’S STATION, AFTER THE BATTLE OF GAINES’S MILL.

FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BEFORE THE ARMY WITHDREW, EARLY ON THE MORNING OF JUNE 30TH.

Carolina) to take the prisoners and arms to Richmond. We reached WhiteOak Swamp about noon, and there found another hospital camp, with aboutfive hundred sick in it. Truly, the Chickahominy swamps were fatal to theFederal forces. A high bluff was on our side of the little stream called WhiteOak, and a large uncultivated field on the other side. In this field could beseen a battery of artillery, supported by a brigade of infantry — artilleristsand infantry lying down and apparently asleep. Under cover of Thomas T.M unford’s 2d Virginia cavalry, thirty-one field-pieces were placed upon thebluff, and were ordered to open fire as soon as the cavalry mask was removed.The battery fired its loaded guns in reply, and then galloped off, followed byits infantry supports and the long lines of infantry farther back in the field.Munford crossed his regiment over the ford, and Jackson and myself wentwith him to see what had become of the enemy. We soon found out. Thebattery had taken up a position behind a point of woods, where it was per-fectly sheltered from our guns, but could play upon the broken bridge andford, and upon every part of the uncultivated field. It opened with grape