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� on the Enemy's right. Battery after battery was hurried into position Meagher's brigade came up and every available force was employed to check the foe. We were successful The firing soon died away and now it was almost dark.

The next work was to get over the river our wounded and the hosts of stragglers and the batteries out of ammunition and the exhausted troops of Porter who had now been fighting for nearly two days without any cessation. Amid so much of excitement this was no usual job.

Our division meanwhile left its positions on the battlefield and did not retire until nearly midnight. Then it recrossed the river and returned to their