Of the 18th New York, Captains George Barry and Theodore C. Rogers were killed, and Adjutant John H. Russell mortally wounded. Captain T. J. Radcliffe and Lieutenants H. T. Goodus and James Chalmers were wounded.

Of the 95th Pennsylvania, Colonel John M. Gosline, Major Wm. B. Hubbs and Lieutenant Hamilton Donahue were killed. Captains Edward Carroll, and Henry W. Hewes, and Lieutenants H. Oscar Roberts, Charles Shugre, and Thomas D. G. Chapman were wounded.

General Slocum's own words of acknowledgment to his command fittingly present the service rendered by this division, including its gallant commander and able lieutenants:

"Like soldiers and like men they performed their duty and met their fate, and a grateful country will long bear them and the thousand nameless heroes of this conflict who have offered up their lives at the Nation's shrine, in lasting and honored remembrance."

When the brigades dispatched by General Sumner reached the field, the battle was ended. In Meagher's brigade, Lieutenant Thos. A. Mayo, of the 29th Massachusetts was killed and an officer of the 63d New York was reported captured or missing with five enlisted men, and one enlisted man of the same regiment was reported missing.

In French's brigade of the 57th New York, one enlisted man was reported wounded; and in the 66th New York, two enlisted men were reported captured or missing. The casualties in the two brigades aggregated 16! Without any reflection upon the reinforcement from the gallant Second Army Corps, or any

disparagement of the aid they brought, justice to those who through that trying day had stood their ground as only heroes can, requires that attention should be called to the proof these casualties afford that Generals French and Meagher, arriving on the battle-field, were not called upon to make a “stand against the enemy who were already pursuing the routed columns of General Porter" (Richardson), "pressing hard upon the rear with artillery, cavalry, and light infantry" (French), as has been erroneously reported.

Of the judgment, energy, and courage with which Generals Morell, Sykes, and McCall brought their wealth of knowledge and experience to second the efforts of their indomitable leader, it is unnecessary to enlarge. So admirably were their dispositions made and so efficiently were their orders executed by their brigade commanders and their troops that the results attained leave no room for doubt that, had the reinforcements requested by General Porter, through General John G. Barnard, been received in time for their proper assignment to positions, and particularly had the axes promised (but not sent) by General Barnard been available for use in the needed defensive preparations, the line would have been maintained to the irreparable damage of the enemy. Having held at bay for six hours at least twice their own force, there is no one can doubt but that if the axes had been furnished and the timber, under which the enemy massed for attack, could have been slashed, a complete repulse of the Confederates would have followed. But, L'homme propose, Dieu dispose! Of all the battles fought during the American Rebellion, no battle stands out so prominently as that of Gaines'

Mill. A single army corps, with half of that a single line of troops, without breastworks, holding every inch of its own ground against twice its numerical force, while that force possessed all the advantages of cover to mask its movements, must furnish to military men a picture of self-reliance on the part of the commanders, and of discipline and endurance on the part of the Union troops scarcely, if ever, equalled. But Porter had redeemed his promise to hold the position to the last extremity! Under orders from the general-in-chief, he withdrew his battered (but not broken) command to the right bank of the Chickahominy River during the night of June 27th.

OFFICERS SERVING AS ADJUTANTS-GENERAL IN FIFTH CORPS.

(PENINSULA CAMPAIGN).

Lieut.-Col. Fred T. Locke, A. A. G. Vols., Asst. Adj.-Gen. Fifth Army Corps.

Capt. R. T. Auchmuty, A. A. G. Vols., A. A. G., 1st Division. Capt. H. J. Biddle, A. A. G., 1st Division.

Capt. Chas. J. Powers, A. A. G. Vols., A. A. G., 1st Brigade, 1st Division.

Capt. Francis W. Perkins, A. A. G. Vols., A. A. G., 2d Brigade, 1st Division.

Capt. Thos. J. Hoyt, A. A. G. Vols., A. A. G., 3d Brigade, 1st Division.

Lieut. Saml. J. Foster. 6th U. S. Inf., A. A. A. G., 2d Division. Lieut. Wm. H. Powell, 4th U. S. Inf., A. A. A. G., 1st Brigade, 2d Division.

Lieut. A. W. Kroutinger, 2d U. S. Inf., A. A. A. G., 2d Brigade, 2d Division.

Lieut. A. S. Marvin, 5th N. Y., A. A. A. G., 3d Brigade, 2d Division.

Capt. Jas. C. Clark, A. A. G. Vols., A. A. G., 3d Division. Capt. E. C. Baird, A. A. G. Vols., A. A. G., 1st Brigade, 3d Division.

Lieut. G. H. Bemus, A. A. Gen., 3d Brigade, 3d Division.

CHAPTER III.

THE CHANGE OF BASE-GLENDALE, OR NEW MARKET CROSS-ROADS-MALVERN HILL.

By skilful manoeuvering the enemy had created so serious an apprehension of attack upon the lines on the right bank of the Chickahominy as to render questionable even the possibility of reinforcing the Fifth Army Corps when General Porter's request for support at last reached the general-in-chief. And this apprehension, or misapprehension, was not confined to, or most active in, the mind of the commanding general. The replies returned by corps commanders to his inquiries during June 26th and 27th invariably indicated the opinion that detachment from the left wing of the army would endanger its ability to hold its intrenchments. After Slocum's division had been sent to the left bank of the river, as late as 5 P.M. of June 27th, General Franklin reported: "I do not think it prudent to take away any more troops from here at present," and General Sumner stated: "If the General desires to trust the defense of my position to my front line alone, I can send French with three regiments and Meagher with his brigade to the right; everything is so uncertain that I think it would be hazardous to do it."

Undoubtedly the force of the enemy defending the Richmond line was over-estimated, but history, weigh