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andoned camp, pushing up the road to come in above McClernand, between him and where Sherman had been. Dresser's battery of rifled guns opened on them as they passed, and with fearful slaughter — not confined, alas! to one side only — drove them back. But the enemy's reserves were most skillfully handled, and the constant advance of fresh regiments was at last too much for our inferior numbers. Major Eaton, commanding the 18th Illinois, was killed; Col. Haynie was severely wounded; Col. Raith, commanding a brigade, had his leg so shattered that amputation was necessary; Major Nevins, of the 11th Illinois, was wounded; Lieut. Col. Ransom, of the same regiment, was wounded; three of Gen. McClernand's staff--Major Schwartz, Major Stewart, and Lieut. Freeman--were wounded, and carried from the field. Line officers had suffered heavily. The batteries were broken up. Schwartz had lost half his guns, and sixteen horses. Dresser had lost several of his rifled pieces, three caissons