Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion, Vol. 2

              THE  MINE  AT  PETERSBURG, 947
Green, color-bearer, was mortally wounded on the 17th, having been shot through both legs; and rather than leave the fiag, he brought it to our lines in his teeth, dragging himself by the aid of his hands. On the 17th and 18th, Major Kershaw, Captain Stevens, and Lieutenant W. H. Earl were wounded, the last mortally.
The Thirty-eighth Regiment moved to the extreme front, under a heavy fire, on the morning of the 16th, the next after¬ noon captured the outer line of intrenchments at the point of the bayonet, and in the evening charged upon and took the second line, with some prisoners. On the 18th, they advanced again, through a deep cut, captured other works, and drove the enemy to his main line of defences. In all these engage¬ ments they lost nine killed and forty-three wounded.
The Sharpshooters Avere engaged in au action at Harris' Farm on the 18th, and four days later at Jerusalem Plank Road. The Fourth Battery were attached to Kautz's Cavalry division, June 4th, and were under the concentrated fire of fourteen guns for tAvo hours,'on the 15th.
The Union loss at Petersburg, June 15th to 19th, was 1,198 killed, 6,853 wounded, 1,614 prisoners; the rebel loss, 3,500 kiUed, wounded and prisoners.
THB  MINE  AT   PETERSBURG.
Lieutenant Colonel Pleasants, of the Forty-eighth Pennsyl¬ vania Regiment, suggested planting a mine under one of the largest rebel forts before Petersburg, and he and his regiment accomplished the Avork betAveen June 25th and July 23rd. The distance mined was five hundred and ten feet; the gallery was four and-a-half feet Avide at the bottom, and sloping upward Avas four-and-a-half feet high; the tAvo galleries and eight side chambers under the fort, were twenty feet below ; and four tons of powder were deposited there. The appointed time for exploding the mine was the morning of July SOth. After the explosion, it was intended to assault the enemy's works on Cemetery HiU beyond, and gain the main defences of the city. The assaulting force was to be the ninth corps, under Burnside, supported by the eighteenth, under Ord. These were in their place, with the second corps on the right and the