. . 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 killed by asharpshooter, a bullet pass-ing through his body. At dusk the enemyopened several batteriesupon our position, and forhalf an hour the Sixth wassubjected to the concen-trate
. . 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 killed by asharpshooter, a bullet pass-ing through his body. At dusk the enemyopened several batteriesupon our position, and forhalf an hour the Sixth wassubjected to the concen-trated fire of a dozen guns, but fortunately not a man was reljels seemed satisfied and stopped firing. The Sixth atonce opened fire and pounded away at them with the six Napo-leons until the boys felt that they were even. About two oclockin the morning the rebels opened from their skirmish line, andthe tire, as it ran along the front, proved a fine pyrotechnic display,their batteries participating. The shells burst high in the air andlittle harmjwas WILLIAM M. FARKAR,CAPTAIN, SIXTY-FIFTH. 1864.] A FATALITY AND A NARROW ESCAPE. 563 On May 30th, after a protracted siege of the most severeduty that can be imagined, the Sixth was relieved by the Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania battery, and retired from the line for a briefrest The guns were, the following day, placed in position in rearof the left of the Twenty-third corps. During the first half of June the Sixth battery was in con-stant service, moving from one point to another, and sharing allthe fortunes, the hardships and the perils of the arm}*. The menpatiently and uncomplainingly suffered the same discomforts thathave been described in previous pages of this Story. No bat-tery in the army did more important duty, or possessed in a fullermeasure the confidence of those in high command. On the isth of June, while the battery was in positionbetween Pine Top and Little Kennesaw, a section was thrownforward into an exposed
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