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; and the 1st, 7th, 11th, 16th and 19th were engaged at Oak Grove June 25 with smaller losses. Narratives of the latter battle by Colonels Cowdin and Blaisdell may be found in Official War Records, XI (2), pp. 124-126, and General Hooker's Report, XI (3), p. 233. At the battle of Mechanicsville June 26, the 9th and 22d Mass., with the 1st and 3d batteries, were engaged, meeting with only slight loss; but at Gaines's Mill—the first attack made in force on the Army of the Potomac (June 27-28）—these two regiments lost very heavily, more than eighty being killed or mortally wounded from each, while their supports, the 10th, 15th and 29th, with the 1st, 3d and 5th batteries, suffered more slightly. It was at this battle that the 9th (Irish) Regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Guiney, fulfilled the prophecy made by the Hon. Edward Everett in regard to this portion of our people. Their cordial sympathy warrants us in believing that if, on some hard-fought field, should the doubtful da<