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captured on the field or in the pursuit. Besides these we captured sixty-four artillery horses with the harness, twenty-six wagons, and much camp equipage, clothing and other property abandoned in their flight. Would that we could have ended at Manassas, and the thousands of lives of the heroic men of the South been spared.

"Adown the coming years did beat,

The pulse of hope, life seemed so bright, That little recked we of defeat,

Nor dreamed such days should close in night."

Athens ', Ga., May 24, 1902.

[From the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, April 27, 1902.]

COLD HARBOR SALIENT.

The Story Told From the Other Side.

Through the kindness of a friend I am in possession of copies of your paper of dates of February i6th [see Vol. XXIX, South- ern Historical Society Papers, page 285] and March 91 h, in which correspondents very graphically describe what tons is the other side of that fierce struggle for the so-called bloody salient at Cold Harbor June 3, 1864. Having been a participant in that short but sanguin- ary encounter^ I must say I was highly interested in the perusal. In encounters of that kind it is a source of satisfaction to know who were our opponents, or commonly speaking, we run up against. In that little affair we had no time to ask questions, for our stay was short in that neighborhood. Hence, I am glad even at this late day to learn who it was who put up so strong an objection to our occupying that salient, and it may be equally interesting to those survivors who so bravely defended it, to learn who it was who ran up against them on that memorable 3d of June morning. This leads me to say one correspondent labored under a very wrong im- pression when he says Hancock's whole corps was there. On the contrary, it was a very small portion of it in fact, only one regi-