. . ion of the generals, it was decided that an assault would be extra-hazardous, inevitablyentailing great loss of the enterprise wasabandoned. The brigwas ready to go at c< inmand, but there was n<man in it who did not iperience a sense of reliefwhen word was pasalong the line that tinder to charge had beencountermanded. The Sixty-fourth hada very warm encounterwith the enemys skirmish -at Lovejoys. SergeantAndrew Towsiey, of Com-pany G, a most excellentsoldier, was killed, and anumber were wounded. Here ended the At
. . ion of the generals, it was decided that an assault would be extra-hazardous, inevitablyentailing great loss of the enterprise wasabandoned. The brigwas ready to go at c< inmand, but there was n<man in it who did not iperience a sense of reliefwhen word was pasalong the line that tinder to charge had beencountermanded. The Sixty-fourth hada very warm encounterwith the enemys skirmish -at Lovejoys. SergeantAndrew Towsiey, of Com-pany G, a most excellentsoldier, was killed, and anumber were wounded. Here ended the Atlantacampaign, which, for con-tinuous marching, fightingand intrenching, tenacity ofpurpose on the part of the commanding general, and the courageand endurance of the officers and soldiers composing his army,has no parallel in the record of the war except in the contempora-neous campaign of General Grant against Lee. The losses of theSixty-fourth, from Rocky Face ridge to Lovejoys, were: officers,three killed, six wounded; enlisted men, twenty-five killed, one. ALBERT C. WHITE,DRUMMER, COMPANY I), SIXTY-FOURTH. Aged 9 years and 29 days; theyoungest soldier in the Brigade. MARCH HACK TO hundred wounded, three captured -total, one hundred and thirty-seven. The Sixty-fifth lost: officers, two killed i besides GeneralHarker), four wounded ; enlisted men, nine killed, fifty-fivewounded, two missing—total, seventy-two. The loss of the Sixthbattery was: killed or mortally wounded, one officer, four enlistedmen ; wounded, seven. Harker\s brigade entered the campaignin May with about twenty-six hundred men. Its losses in killedand wounded were ten hundred and forty-one—forty per cent. At Lovejoys we ood-bye to our esteemed contempo- rary, the Third Kentucky. Its time having expired, it was or-dered to the rear to be mustered out. For eighteen months thisexcellent regiment had been a member of our brigade family, andwe had formed many warm attachments among its
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