. . r the families and friends of the soldieiDuring the 27th, 28th and29th the rebels showed un-usual activity all along theline. The pi kii - mished continually, andheavy filing at vaii 1points kept u> istate of alarm. We sibut little, and half a doatimes during each twenfour hours we were calledinto Hue at ihe intrench -merits. It was a good deallike keeping a railroad htel, with warm meals atall hours for th-public. It turned out thatall this extraordinary fusson the part of the enemyonly a ruse to divertGeneral Kallecks attent
. . r the families and friends of the soldieiDuring the 27th, 28th and29th the rebels showed un-usual activity all along theline. The pi kii - mished continually, andheavy filing at vaii 1points kept u> istate of alarm. We sibut little, and half a doatimes during each twenfour hours we were calledinto Hue at ihe intrench -merits. It was a good deallike keeping a railroad htel, with warm meals atall hours for th-public. It turned out thatall this extraordinary fusson the part of the enemyonly a ruse to divertGeneral Kallecks attention while Corinth was being evacuated;for during these days and nights of constant skirmishing andstanding at arms in ihe trenches, fast making his preparations to jump the town. Train after train bore southby railroad-the heavy artillery, munitions and baggage. Duringthe night of May 29th the rebels quietly folded their tents, or lefttheir huts, and silently stole aw In the evening of that day, and up to midnight, while the evacuation was in progress,. KT s. CHAMBERLIN,UN. SIXTY-FOURTH. l8o THREK OFFICERS DIE FROM DISEASE. [May, their pickets were very noisy, keeping us in a constant that was the last night we spent in the trenches beforeCorinth. Soon after we left Nashville both regiments were bereft ofofficers by death from disease. On March 30th LieutenantThomas McGill, of Company I, Sixty-fourth, died at was a worthy man, ardent and zealous in the discharge of hisduties, but physically delicate and unable to endure the hardshipsof the field. The same may be said of Lieutenant GeorgeHuckins, of Company E, Sixty-fifth, who died at NashvilleApril 2nd. He was born and raised in Canada. At the time heentered the service he was near graduation, in the college at Berea,Ohio, where Company E was raided. Huckins intended to be-come a citizen of the United S 1 id believed the countryworth fighting for. Blessed with a singularly sunny and lovabledisposition, he
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