. Vermont in the civil war. A history of the part taken by the Vermont soldiers and sailors in the war for the Union, 1861-5 . a goodpart of the night; and there was little sleep in the dawn the men could hear distinctly the reveille in theenemys camps; and some of the pickets could even dis-tinguish the roll calls of the Confederate companies. Duringthe next day, Sunday, April 6 th, the skirmishers were blaz-ing away at each other, the Confederates in rifle pits and theFederals in the edge of the woods, and occasional shots fromthe Confederate artillery crashed through the tree t
. Vermont in the civil war. A history of the part taken by the Vermont soldiers and sailors in the war for the Union, 1861-5 . a goodpart of the night; and there was little sleep in the dawn the men could hear distinctly the reveille in theenemys camps; and some of the pickets could even dis-tinguish the roll calls of the Confederate companies. Duringthe next day, Sunday, April 6 th, the skirmishers were blaz-ing away at each other, the Confederates in rifle pits and theFederals in the edge of the woods, and occasional shots fromthe Confederate artillery crashed through the tree tops overthe heads of the troops; but no Vermonters were duty, in corduroying roads over the spongy soil, inwhich water was found anywhere at the depth of a foot ortwo and on which it was well nigh impossible to move artil-lery, now began and formed a good share of the work of thearmy for weeks. On Monday the brigade, having been underarms for two days and nights, was moved to the rear and To my utter surpiise he (McClellan) permitted day after day toelapse without an assault. General Magruder, in his \^ pUBUC UENOX tMP \ ,^SJ^^ri:fS2 THE FIRST BRIGADE. 249 riglit to a position near tlie Garrow farm. Here tliey re-mained encamped in the woods, witli a few unimportantchanges of position, for a month, doing their share of picketservice * and fatigue duty in building roads and batteries, anddoing also the first serious fighting of the Peninsular cam-paign on the Union side. lees mill. The engagement known as that of Lees Mill, was anotable one, as being the first assault on an entrenched linemade by the army of the Potomac, as an exhibition of re-markable bravery in the troops engaged, and as one of thebloodiest actions, in proportion to numbers engaged, in whichthe Vermont troops took part during the war. It was alsoone of the most useless wastes of life and most lamentableof unimproved opportunities recorded in this history. Tho scene of the action was the G
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