Chapter 38:
- After the 18th of June General Beauregard is no longer in command of the Army around Petersburg. -- enemy's raids to Interrupt our communications. -- no material advantage gained. -- completion of Confederate lines. -- General Beauregard's forces occupy works in front of Petersburgh. -- rumors concerning the mine. -- the salients upon General Beauregard's lines. -- he orders countermines, and Establishes batteries Commanding exposed points. -- his instructions to the officers there posted. -- Elliott's salient the Point selected by the enemy. -- mining commenced on the 25th of June, and completed on the 23d of July. -- when the explosion took place. -- the Federal column of assault: how composed. -- denudement of Confederate lines in consequence of the threatened movement of the enemy North of the James. -- Bushrod Johnson's division. -- its position along the works. -- Elliott's brigade. -- General Elliott wounded. -- Colonel McMaster. -- General Beauregard in front. -- his orders carried out. -- is present with General Lee, pending the action. -- prompt and accurate firing of the Confederate troops. -- raking fire of their batteries. -- the enemy demoralized. -- is unable to advance.-his critical position. -- General Grant acknowledges the impossibility of success. -- suggests the order to withdraw. -- General Meade issues it. -- arrival of General Mahone with part of his division. -- Throws forward his brigade. -- North Carolina and South Carolina regiments join in the movement. -- separate action of Wright's brigade. -- its repulse. -- combined attack under Generals Mahone and Johnson. -- slight resistance on the part of the enemy. -- crater and lines abandoned by the Federals. -- ours and the enemy's loss. -- General Badeau's opinion of this affair.
From the hour of 12 M., on the 18th of June, General Beauregard ceased to be first in command of our forces at and around Petersburg; and, though he continued on that day to direct, to some extent, the movements of the troops, he did so only because General Lee had not yet become sufficiently familiar with the position of our various commands on the new line occupied. Comparative quiet now prevailed in both armies, and Federals as well as Confederates were actively engaged in strengthening their defensive works. On the 21st, however, the 2d and 6th Federal Corps were withdrawn from the lines and sent on a flanking movement to the
