. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . FRANCIS C. HARLOW. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. COLD HARBOR. 219 valor. The 2d Connecticut Heavy Artillery, a new regiment eighteen hundredstrong, had joined us but a few days before the battle. Its uniform wasbright and fresh; therefore its dead were easily distinguished where they marked in a dotted line an obtuse angle, covering a wide front, with itsapex toward the enemy, and there upon his face, still in death, with his headto the works, lay the colonel, the br
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . FRANCIS C. HARLOW. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. COLD HARBOR. 219 valor. The 2d Connecticut Heavy Artillery, a new regiment eighteen hundredstrong, had joined us but a few days before the battle. Its uniform wasbright and fresh; therefore its dead were easily distinguished where they marked in a dotted line an obtuse angle, covering a wide front, with itsapex toward the enemy, and there upon his face, still in death, with his headto the works, lay the colonel, the brave and genial Colonel Elisha S. Kellogg. %When night came on, the groans and moaning of the wounded, all our own,who were lying between the lines, were heartrending. Some were broughtin by volunteers from our intreiichments, but many __ ••., -. remained for three davs -m fi|| Urn* ._* .liiftaife * - uncared tor beneath the tj&sli^ hot summer suns and >;:-^_Ciri: ^^^fi-^^h^f^^^ ■ the unrefreshmg dews ~^---^:^^:^^^^^!??f^^^^^;i■i^:i ■■&. 3?S of the sultry summer ^;??iSpN~=£^nights. The men in theworks grew impatient, yetit was against orders and ^ was almost certain deathto go beyond our earth-works. An impression COLD HARBOR, JUNE 3 —bomb-proofs on the line of the ■1 • n l SECOND CORPS. FROM A SKETCH MADE AT THE TIME. prevails 111 the popular mind, and with some reason perhaps, that a commander who sends a flagof truce asking permission to bury his dead and bring in his wounded haslost the field of battle. Hence the reluctance upon our part to ask a flagof truce. In effect it was done at last on the evening of the third day afterthe battle, when, for the most part, the wounded needed no further careand our dead had to be buried almost where they fell. The work of intrenching could only be done at night. The fire of sharp-shooters was incessant, and no man upon all that line could stand erect andlive an instant. This condition of things continued for twelve
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