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Region embraced in the Operations of the Armies
against
RICHMOND and PETERSBURG, V.
Reduced from Map of the Engineer Bureau, War Dept

Firry-SixtH REGIMENT. 355

much smaller force will be amply sufficient to hold our shorter
line across the narrow neck from bend to bend of the here
converging rivers, which lower down diverge considerably be-
fore uniting, thus suggesting General Grant’s figure. Our
line extends from near Bermuda Hundreds on the former to

_ a point in the vicinity of the Confederate Fort Clifton on the

latter. D. H. Hill urges another assault.
18 May. With a picket line advanced, we throw up a

counter line of works, receiving a shelling from Butler’s gun-
boats.

19 May. Company D is out in front, some 500 yards to
the right of the Howlett house, rectifying the line of rifle
pits to conform to the possible line of attack and defence.
Consultation with General W. G. Lewis, recently promoted
from Lieutenant-Colonel to Brigadier-General, and well
known as an engineer of ability, who appears on the line.

BATTLE OF WARE BOTTOM CHURCH, OR CLAY'S FARM.

20 May. Companies B and H, Captains F. N. Roberts
and W. G. Graves, relieve Company D, which joins the regi-
ment, About 2 p. m., Beauregard makes a general assault
from right to left on Butler’s line, and drives it in three-
quarters of a mile on the right, and something less on the left.
Our troops on this part of the line were put in too spasmodi-
cally, in unsupported detachments, allowing the enemy to re-
inforce from point to point as successively threatened, or to
make a counter-charge and flank movement with fresh troops
against ours before they could recover from the disorder in-
cident to a headlong rush into the contested positions. The
fight upon the part of the Fifty-sixth ended with the enemy’s
picket line, from which we had driven their advanced line of
battle, in our possession. The loss to the Fifty-sixth was 90
killed and wounded in less than half as many minutes, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Luke being one of the wounded. In Com-
pany D, as follows: Washington Blackwood, Jesse Clark,
John Clark, James Hicks, Elzy Riley, James Roberts, Wm.
N. Simmes and Corporal J. Erwin Laycock; also James M.
Clark, Ensign, and Jesse Brown and William E. Faucett, all
wounded. Jesse Brown, like Corporal Hughes at Ply-