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the Enemy's Pickets: "The Colonel commanding brigade directs me to say that if the pickets on our front come into our lines as prisoners we will not fire a shot at you, but if you stay as you are we intend shelling every rifle-pit, and make you leave them at once. If this meets your approval come outside your pits and hold your hands above your heads, and come in, and you will be treated as prisoners of war. "Yours, respectfully, "West Funk, "Lieutenant and A. D. C. "By order Colonel Tilton" On Sunday evening, about two o'clock, Burnside sent a flag of truce, asking for a cessation of hostilities to bury the dead between the lines. General Beauregard responded that whenever a proposition came from the General commanding the army of the Potomac it would be entertained. Immediately after the return of the first paper General Meade sent a flag covering a similar request. About two o'clock Monday morning General Beauregard replied, granting the request and fixing t