. Major-general Hiram G. Berry; his career as a contractor, bank president, politician, and major-general of volunteers in the civil war, together with his war correspondence, embracing the period from Bull Run to Chancellorsville . g of May 3d, as Captain James F. Rusling,Berrys chief quartermaster, rode to the front, he found thedivision in line of battle, as it had fought the evening Berry was seated on a stump by the roadside, aneighth of a mile in front of the Chancellor house, superintendingthe planting of a battery. As Berry had passed through theengagement of the previ
. Major-general Hiram G. Berry; his career as a contractor, bank president, politician, and major-general of volunteers in the civil war, together with his war correspondence, embracing the period from Bull Run to Chancellorsville . g of May 3d, as Captain James F. Rusling,Berrys chief quartermaster, rode to the front, he found thedivision in line of battle, as it had fought the evening Berry was seated on a stump by the roadside, aneighth of a mile in front of the Chancellor house, superintendingthe planting of a battery. As Berry had passed through theengagement of the previous day unhurt, Captain Rusling, duringthe conversation, joked him about his presentiment; but theGeneral was still grave of manner and remarked: Rusling, the battle is not over yet. After spending a half hour with the General and lunchingwith him and the staff, Rusling rejoined the trains on the otherside of the Rappahannock, and when he again saw his chief itwas when the dead body was brought back to Falmouth in anambulance, and there he wrapped it in the large garrison flagthat flew at Division Headquarters. At daylight, on the morning of the 3d of May, the enemyadvanced again on the front line of Berrys division, held by. -^ filUaJL ^W^ 1899. LIEUTENANT DIMICK. 265 General Reveres brigade and the ist Massachusetts and 26thPennsylvania regiments, driving in the pickets and opening witha terrific fire of artillery and musketry, while his sharpshooterswere also actively engaged. Our gallant soldiers undauntedlyreturned their fire from behind their low defenses, and defiantlyanswered savage yells by lustily cheering. The single line ofbattle, aided by its rude defense, successfully resisted theonslaught of the heavy columns which the enemy sent againstit, until the withdrawal of the 3d Maryland, which exposed theleft of the line to an enfilading fire, obliging it to retire, butreluctantly. Osborn with his artillery played upon the enemy with tell-ing effect. The section in the
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