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FIFTY-SIXTH REGIMENT.

T. P. Savilles, Captain, Co. A
Henry Williams, Private, Co. A.
Frank N. Roberts, Captain, Co. B
J. A. King, 2d Lieut., Co. B.
9. J.R. B. Walker, Private, Co. B.

5. D. M. McDonald, 2d Lieut., Co. B
6. Wm. J. McDonald, Private, Co. B.
7. Joseph G. Lockhart, Captain, Co. E.

8. Jarvis B. Lutterloh, ist Lieut., Co. E.

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army has been transferred as the Fourth Corps, under Gen-
eral R. H. Anderson (Longstreet having recovered from his
Wilderness wound and returned to his old corps), has now
successfully withstood attacks from front, rear, flank, and
overhead. Is there any other direction on earth from which
the ingenuity of man may hope to approach? No. But
there is an untried route under the earth. Early in
this month, the enemy began running tunnels from two or
three different points to undermine our lines. Our sap-
pers and miners go down into the earth to meet them, and
time after time, while Brigade Officer of the Day, has
the writer placed his ear to the wall of a tunnel cut beneath
Colquitt’s salient, sometimes occupied by our brigade, but
was unable to distinguish any sound different from the nat-
ural roaring experience by closing the ear. All along
our line, at points facing practical bases on their side
for such underground operations, we were boring for them
with our long range augers. These augers were constructed
with poles for handles, and on the larger end a fold of sheet
iron or steel securely fastened, which with two upright edges
lacking, say, two inches of coming together, formed the bit
of the chisel. As fast as these filled with the compact earth
in digging, they were withdrawn and cleaned out with a bay-
onet. A depth of twenty-five feet had failed to disclose the
modern catacomb. But evidently great expectations are
raised over the way, and we must be on the qui vive. Three
o’clock each morning now finds us in full line of battle, there
to remain until the sun is fully up.

BATTLE OF THE CRATER.

30 July. Six weeks ago to-day occurred the dispute over
the location of the line to defend the first salient at the ravine
north of the Jerusalem road, then held by the right centre
company of the Fifty-sixth North Carolina State Troops.
Meanwhile our brigade has moved one space to the left, re-
placed by Elliott’s. To-day the spot takes its place in history
to be remembered long after the disputants shall have been
forgotten. At sunrise, as our line of battle was about to break
ranks for another day, a dull thud is heard to our right and a