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heat and cold, with scant food and insufficient supplies, the
ranks thinning hourly from deaths, wounds and sickness, de-
pressed by the gathering gloom of our falling fortunes,
through the dark, bitter and foreboding winter of 1864-65.
the men of the Forty-ninth were faithful unto the end;
never faltering in the performance of any duty, and never
failing to meet and resist the foe.

On 8 June, 1864, Lieutenant C. C. Krider, of Company
C, was wounded in the right shoulder by a piece of shell.
On 23 July Captain John C. Grier, of Company*F, was
wounded in the arm and thigh by pieces of a mortal shell.

 

 

 

THE CRATER AT PETERSBURG.

On 30 July occurred the springing of Grant’s mine under
Pegram’s Battery, formerly Branch’s, on a hill about four
hundred yards to the right of our regiment, and on the left
of Elliott’s South Carolina Brigade. The Twenty-fifth
North Carolina was between us and the mine. The battery,
most of its men and officers, and a considerable part of the
Twenty-sixth South Carolina Regiment were blown up, the
mine containing, it was said, thirty tons of blasting powder.
A large excavation was made; and in the smoke and confu-
sion, amid the flying debris and mangled men, the enemy
charged in great force, effecting a lodgment in our lines, and
a large number of the flags of Burnside’s Corps floated on our
works. Reinforcements poured to their support and a vigor-
ous assault was made on our line on both sides of the crater.
In the van were negro soldiers, crying, “No quarter to the
rebels.” Most fortunately for our army, we had completed
but a day or two before a cavalier line in the rear of the
salient, where the explosion occurred ; the two lines, salient
and cavalier, forming a diamond shaped fortification. Into
this cavalier line, from the left of the salient, rushed by the
right flank the Twenty-fifth and Forty-ninth Regiments of

chateen for nctia pcos ae aso Se tansom, and, from the other side, the remnant of the Twenty-

2 BF Dixon, Captain, Co. 0. ais Tice, Be Seanad Pizat., Oo. K. j sixth South Carolina, which had been blown up, and a part
5. James Greenlee Flemming, Ist Lieut., Co. C. * bd % 5

(Killed at Sharpsburg ) of another regiment of Elliott’s Brigade. These rapidly

formed for a charge’to retake our works, but the enemy

massed his troops so rapidly into the broken salient that it