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companies of his own troops. In addition to this, he determined to carry the war into the enemy's country, and on Wednesday last Stanard's battery of the Howitzer Battalion was ordered down to the Church, where it was soon joined by a portion of Brown's battery, of the same corps. The North Carolina Regiment, under Colonel Hill, was also there, making in all about 1,100 men, and seven howitzer guns. On Saturday last the first excursion of considerable importance was made. A detachment orolinian who volunteered to fire one of the houses behind which they were stationed. He started from the breast work to accomplish it, but was shot in the head. He died this morning at the hospital. The wounded are Harry Shock, of Richmond, of Brown's Battery, shot in the wrist; John Werth, of Richmond, of the same Battery, shot in the leg, and Lieut. Hudnail, of the same battery, shot in the foot.--None of the wounds are serious. The Louisiana Regiment arrived about one hour after the
to West. On the south side was a ravine 30 feet deep, and very marshy. This position was defended by a battery of one howitzer gun, under the command of Capt. J. Thompson Brown on the left, and an earthwork and trench made and occupied by the companies of Lieut. Col. Stewart's command, consisting of the Virginia Life Guard, Capt. a shot which took effect on the column in the road and did considerable damage; this was replied to by the enemy from their gun in the road, and replied to by Captain Brown's Battery in the field. The action then became general, and the deafening roar of the guns was all that could be heard for an hour — our shot taking good effe a single man or gun, all being aimed too high, doing great damage among the boughs of the trees. Col. Stuart's command were placed fifty yards on the right of Capt. Brown's Battery, to serve as a protection to them, and we soon saw the approach of a company of Zouaves of a New York Regiment, advancing under cover of some nouses,