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from a line of skirmishers concealed be kind a fence, which killed an orderly's horse and slightly wounded another belonging to a member of his Staff. Lieut. Col. Hesser, of the 72d Pennsylvania, formerly Bexter's Zouaves, was killed soon after the information of our skirmish line. The color bearer, who was in advance of the line, was ordered to proceed more cautiously, and Col. Hesser had advanced to the front for the purpose of seeing to the execution of the order, when he was shot twice, one hall passing through the head and the other through the leg. His regiment immediately charged and recovered his body. Col. Hesser was an old soldier, having Col. Hesser was an old soldier, having served through the Mexican war. During the skirmish in the centre, at Robertson's Tavern, heavy cannonading was heard on the right and left — the 5th corps being on the left, in the vicinity of Hope Church, and the 3d, supported by the 5th, on the right. Gregg's cavalry division, on the left, had come up with the enemy's skir