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v ^lor. The 2d Connecticut Heavy Artillery, a new regiment eighteen hundredstrong, dad joined us hut a few days before the battle. Its uniform wasfl ght and fresh; therefore its dead were easily distinguished where they lay.Jf A marked in a dotted line an obtuse angle, covering a wide front, with its^Pex toward the enemy, and there upon his face, still in death, with his head0 the works, lay the colonel, the brave and genial Colonel Elisha S. Kellogg.

^hen night came on, the groans and moaning of the wounded, all our own,%ll ° were lying between the lines, were heartrending. Some were broughtl l1 % volunteers from our

^trenchments, tmt many

l ’ e tQained for three daysReared for beneath thesummer suns andUnrefreshing dews. the sultry summer^ghts. The men in the°rks grew impatient, yet^ as against orders andas almost certain death

So beyond our earth-works .

An impression

^j’evails in the popular0 j. I( h and with some reason perhaps, that a commander who sends a flaglo ^ ril0 ' e as kiug permission to bury his dead and bring in his wounded has^ s t the field of battle. Hence the reluctance upon our part to ask a flagth ^ rUce ‘ I 11 effect it was done at last on the evening of the third day afterH) Ul ^ a ^ e , when, for the most part, the wounded needed no further care

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COLD HARBOR, JUNE 3 — BOMB-PROOFS ON THE LINE OF TIIESECOND CORPS. FROM A SKETCH MADE AT THE TIME.

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°Ur dead had to be buried almost where they fell.

e Work of intrenching could only be done at night. The fire of sharp-

live°^ erS WaS : ' ucessail h aiJ( l no man upon all that line could stand erect andU> a n instant. This condition of things continued for twelve days and2 ^ : ®Tarp-shooters’ fire from both sides went on all day; all night the zig-

a on UlK ' P ara l lels nearer to the enemy’s works were being constructed. Inth 6 niarclios by day or night did that army suffer more than duringpPi- S ? twe l ve days. Rations and ammunition were brought forward from. e l to parallel through the zigzag trenches, and in some instances wheref e aente whose term of service had expired were ordered home, they had to^t g 6 ^ le huld crawling on hands and knees through the trenches to the rear.a lon ° e ^° c ^ ; e very night the enemy opened fire with artillery and musketrythe ' a w T°1<a line. This was undoubtedly done under the suspicion that

\ v . of the Potomac had seen the hopelessness of the task before it andif a withdraw in the night-time for another movement by the flank, and,of a & f8 e d in such a movement, would be thrown into confusion by this threatW^'ht a ttack. However, no advance was made by the enemy.

Mother strange order came about this time. It opened with a preamble

Killed on Jnne 1 st, the day on which his regiment suffered great loss.—’E ditors.