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hiton); Artillery, 11th Mass. Battery (Capt. E. J. Jones). Cavalry Corps. Second Division.—1st Mass. Cavalry (Lieut.-Col. L. M. Sargent). Artillery. 3d Brigade, 9th Mass. Battery (Capt. John Bigelow). Army of the James (Butler). Tenth Army Corps (Gillmore). First Division.—3d Brigade, 24th Mass. (Col. F. A. Osborne). Second Division.—1st Brigade, 40th Mass. (Col. Guy V. Henry). Eighteenth Army Corps (W. F. Smith). Second Division.—1st Brigade, 23d Mass. (Col. Andrew Elwell); 25th Mass. (Maj. C. G. Attwood); 27th Mass. (Col. H. C. Lee). Unattached troops. 13th Co. Mass. Heavy Artillery (Capt. John Pickering, Jr.), as pontoniers. The first great battle of the campaign was the battle of the Wilderness (May 5-7, 1864), and it was, very fortunately, almost unique of its kind. It was not, like the later contests, an affair of entrenchments; cavalry had no important share in it, artillery little; it came as near as the invention of gunpowder permitt