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 their dead. An assault is made on this corps during the early part of the night, but is repulsed, and we were not again disturbed.

June 30th.—During this afternoon the Twenty-ninth regiment received orders to move. About 10 o'clock at night our corps (the Twentieth) was relieved by the Fourteenth. We at once marched several miles to the right in relief of the Twenty-third corps.

On July 1st our regiment was again engaged. The fighting ceased only with daylight. Sharp skirmishing and severe cannonading continued during the entire day of the 2d, and at night the Twenty-ninth regiment occupied its customary position—on the skirmish line. This time, however, it was accompanied by the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania. Just before daylight on the morning of July 3d, the enemy were found to be retreating, and we at once moved forward to find the works deserted, the troops having evacuated. The position, as supposed, was almost impregnable to direct assault, being constructed to enfilade an attack of infantry.

The army now push forward in pursuit of the retreating rebels, the Twenty-ninth Ohio and Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania taking the advance in the order of heavy skirmishers. We soon came upon Wheeler's rebel cavalry, and engaged his dismounted men so promptly that they fell precipitately back to where their horses were picketed. The Twenty-ninth succeeded in capturing nearly one hundred of them in their hurried efforts to remount. The Second division during the pursuit captured nearly nine hundred prisoners. The rebels were steadily falling back on the Chattahoochie river. It was late when we halted for the night. How sweet the wooing of the drowsy god after such long continued fatigue, only those who have been there can imagine, the soft side