. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . ng, and was unable to give any information,so it was given up for lost. Twelve years afterward, however, in 1876, ColonelHaskell was the chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee in theTilden-Hayes campaign, in which the carpet-bag government of SouthCarolina was overthrown, and his name was prominent in the daily papersfor several months. On the 3rd of February, 1877, the Charleston Ncirs andCourier published a letter from a Mr. Dit
. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . ng, and was unable to give any information,so it was given up for lost. Twelve years afterward, however, in 1876, ColonelHaskell was the chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee in theTilden-Hayes campaign, in which the carpet-bag government of SouthCarolina was overthrown, and his name was prominent in the daily papersfor several months. On the 3rd of February, 1877, the Charleston Ncirs andCourier published a letter from a Mr. Ditchfield of Chester County, Pennsyl-vania, stating that James G. Keech, formerly color-sergeant of the 11thPennsylvania Cavalry, had seen in the papers the name of Colonel Haskell,and that he wished to restore to the family a ring which he had taken fromthe body of an officer of that name whom he had mortally wounded onOctober 7, 1864, at the battle of Johnsons Farm, with the promise of sorestoring it. He offered to send the ring at once upon proper is needless to say that this was easily furnished, and the ring was 412 THE STORY OF CHAPTER XLVI. The Battle of Colp Harbor — O. P. Boss, 25tii Massachusetts Infantry — Waiting at the GrNs—The Beoinxing of the Battle — Cold Harbor as Seen by a Uoxfederate Soldier — Carnage Without Victory — The 25th Massachusetts in the Last Attempt — The Comradeship op Battle — Patrick D. Casey, 25th Massachusetts Infantry — Sergeant Ball. THE BATTLE OP COLD HARBOR. IN his ■ Recollections of a Private Soldier. than which no better descrip-tion of a battle from a privates standpoint has ever been Wilkeson says: ••The whole army seemed to be greatly depressed the night before the battleof Cold Harbor. • Before daybreak on June 3. the liirht artillery men ^vere aroused. We ato our seaiitybreakfast and took our positions around the guns. All of us were loath to go into action
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