twelve men
wounded in the skirmish with Osborn's brigade.

"Early on the morning of the 16th, the regiment marched back
to its knapsacks and halted for breakfast. About 10 o'clock
it was ordered out to support two batteries, and remained on
this duty until 3 P. M., changing position frequently, in
the meantime Gen. Terry, with the First Division of the
Tenth Corps, had charged the rebel line, near Fuzzel's
mills, and captured it, together with three colors and some
three hundred prisoners. But the enemy rallied, and with
reinforcements, soon compelled Gen. Terry to relinquish the
captured line. About dark Gen. Wm. Birney came up, and
taking the left wing of the Seventh--the right wing, under
Col. Shaw, was in support of a battery--and two companies of
the Ninth, placed them under command of Lieut.-Col. Haskell,
and ordered him with this handful of men to take an
earthwork in his front which a division a short time before
had failed to carry. The timely arrival of Gen. Terry put an
end to this mad scheme. The regiment lost during the day
eight or ten men wounded.

"The general results of the day's fighting had been
unsatisfactory, for not only had Terry's attack failed in
its object, but the advance on the right, along the Charles
City road, by the troops of the Second Corps and Gregg's
cavalry division, had been equally unsuccessful. The rebel
General Chambliss was among the killed.

"About 2:30 A. M. of the 17th, the left wing of the regiment
was sent back to a line of rifle-pits that had been thrown
up some two hundred yards to the rear, where it was joined
by the right wing in the morning after breakfast.
Picket-firing continued during the day and heavy artillery
firing was heard in the direction of Petersburg. At 4 P. M.
a flag of truce was sent out and two hours given to bring in
the dead from between the lines. Gen. Chambliss' body was
delivered, and we received that of Capt. Williams, of the
Thirty-ninth Illinois. Early in the evening the regiment was
ordered on picket. Considerable picket-firing occurred
during the night and day, the men being with difficulty
restrained from it. We were relieved about noon of the 18th
by the One Hundred and Fifteenth New York and Seventy-sixth
Pennsylvania. * * *

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