. . he Sixth stood manfully totheir work, serving their guns with excellent effect. Two orthree of the rebel shellspierced the works at theangle and stopped justwithin the line. ThornW. Casey, who was Num-ber one on Number onegun, seized each of themand threw them outside,w here they immediatelyploded. At length Gen-eral Sherman concludedthat there had been noiseenough for the time beingand gave the order to ceasefiring. Whatever he saidwent, and the artilleristsrested from their the rebel guns, also,became silent. The fi
. . he Sixth stood manfully totheir work, serving their guns with excellent effect. Two orthree of the rebel shellspierced the works at theangle and stopped justwithin the line. ThornW. Casey, who was Num-ber one on Number onegun, seized each of themand threw them outside,w here they immediatelyploded. At length Gen-eral Sherman concludedthat there had been noiseenough for the time beingand gave the order to ceasefiring. Whatever he saidwent, and the artilleristsrested from their the rebel guns, also,became silent. The firehad been exceedingly se-vere, but the Sixth batterywas so fortunate as to sufferbut one fatal casualty. Cor-poral William H. Matthewswas struck by a fragment of shell and mortally wounded. He lived some weeks, but diedfrom the effect of his hurt. During the remainder of the daythere was spasmodic firing, of both infantry and artillery, but noattempt to advance was made upon either side. The soldiers werecontent to keep within the shelter of their works. (36). DAVID H. EVASERGEANT, SIXTH BATTERY. 562 VH OF BUGLKR WHIT^ For the next three or four days the situation remained aboutthe same. The conditions were as heretofore described, in thesketch of the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth at Dallas. The servicewas most arduous and exacting, full of danger, toil and the 29th Edgar E. Whitney, bugler and orderly, came to thebattery with orders, and attempted to sight one of the guns, inspite of repeated warnings of the danger from sharpshooters,He laughingly remarked that they didnt shoot buglers, and looked through the sights of thegun. A sharpshooter sawthe movement and in an in-stant he rolled off the trailof the gun, dead. The ballhad entered the center ofthe forehead and death wasinstantaneous. An aide-de-camp on the staff of Gen-eral Howard, who had beensent to direct some changein the position of the gunsof the center section, whilelooking over the groundwas instantly
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