...the skirmishers, who, deploying on the left flank under cover of some bushes, had come up to the very work at that angle. In these successful efforts, which occurred by five o'clock in the morning, Col. Lamar fell from the effect of a Minnie ball striking him through the lower part of the ear, and running round his neck under the skin. To his cool courage and energy, in the early part of the action is d...