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THE BATTLE OF MALVERN HILL.

cleared lands north of the River road. These batteries comprised Cap-tain S. H. Weed’s Battery I, 5th U. S. Artillery, Captain John Edwards’sBatteries L and M, 3d U. S. Artillery, J. H. Carlisle’s Battery E, 2d U. S.Artillery, John R. Smead’s Battery K, 5th U. S. Artillery, and AdolphVoegelee’s, Battery B, 1st N. Y. Artillery Battalion, with others in reserve.To these, later in the day, were added the siege-guns of the 1st ConnecticutArtillery, under ColonelRobert 0. Tyler, whichwere placed on elevated

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THE CREW HOUSE. THE UPPER PICTURE SHOWS THE OLD HOUSE, AND IS FROM A COLOR-SKETCHTAKEN SOON AFTER THE WAR; THE NEW HOU8E SHOWN IN THE LOWER PICTUREIS FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN EARLY IN 1885.

The old building, sometimes called Dr. Mellert’s, was The lane, in the lower picture, leads to the Quaker roadthe headquarters of General Morell; during the battle and was the line of Griffin’s guns. McQuade’s repulse ofmembers of the Signal Corps were at work on the roof, the attack on the hill took place behind the cabin onIt was burned after the war and rebuilt on the old the left of the picture. The Crew farm is said to be onefoundations. The view in each case is from the east. of the most fertile on the Peninsula. —Editors.

ground immediately to the left of the Malvern house, so as to fire over ourfront line at any attacking force, and to sweep the low meadow on the left.

To General (then Colonel) Hunt, the accomplished and energetic chief ofartillery, was due the excellent posting of these batteries on June 30th, and ;the rearrangement of all the artillery along the whole line on Tuesday j(July 1st), together with the management of the reserve artillery on that day. jMajor Charles S. Lovell, commanding Colonel William Chapman’s brigade Jof Sykes’s division, supported some of these batteries, and, with the brigade iof Buchanan on his right, in a clump of pines, extended the line northward, jnear the Crew (sometimes called the Mellert) house. |

Morel], prolonging Sykes’s line on Crew’s Hill, with headquarters at Crew’shouse, occupied the right of the line extending to the Quaker road. To hisleft front, facing west, was the 14th New York Volunteers, under Colonel