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 open field. The charge was abandoned, and at 4:30 the regiment returned to camp, where we remained skirmishing and artillery firing during the day. On the 13th inst. the Twenty-ninth was on skirmish line all day. During the night we advanced our line through a woods, which was heavy pine, mixed with live oak, within two hundred yards of the rebel line, where they were strongly intrenched. Between the contending armies was no timber except scattering undergrowth, and a canal near the rebel line of works. In this advanced position the regiment dug rifle-pits, which were strongly barricaded with timber.

In the lines of rifle-pits our pickets were stationed and performed the duty of skirmishers, being relieved every twenty-four hours, which was done under cover of night. In the meantime the regiment fell back about one-fourth of a mile, and constructed works of heavy timber, in the rear of which the men put up their shelter tents. Here they could partake of the scanty rations (but dare not sleep), as the artillery firing and skirmishing was kept up continually day and night on the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th; and Sunday, the 18th, skirmishing and artillery duelling all along the line. On the 19th skirmishing all day. In the evening a detail was made from our brigade under the command of Major Myron T. Wright, to construct new lines of works. While engaged in the work at 7 o'clock, he received a severe wound in the left foot (at which time Captain Jonas Schoonover took command), the ball entering the foot a little below the instep, and lodged into the center of the heel about one inch from the bottom of the foot. On the 20th, firing all along the line. This ceased at 11 o'clock The Twenty-ninth regiment, with its brigade and division, has been in position on the left of the road leading