Litchfield enquirer., 1864-06-30
Cur Army Correspondence.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY POTOMAC, June 2lst, 1864.

and echoiDg with the song of the mocking bird, how jarring to the ear the booming of those guns, that with voice of thunder seem to speak the doom of proud Southern city.
 Here are quiet, comfort, security; a mile away reign, the awful din of war, the sheathng fires of death, the smoke of desolation. Some men can sit behind clump of trees or range of hills, secure from none. and listen to the shifting sound of battle, speculating, o. so calmly. on the fortunes of the day but to me, day after day, and night by night, the crack of musketry and roar of deep-voiced cannon tell tales of sadness. suffering and death. Other voices creep across the fields-each crash of cannon is "another gun for Freedom" each cracking roar of musketry along the battle-line assures us that, with brave hearts to defend it, -Four flag is still there''-but even tho roar and rush, and shout of victory leaves a mournful echo in the heart.
 Will you ride along the lines with me r. First to the right, where along the banks of the Appamatox single picket line of negro troops watch any demonstration of the foe. Across the river, near that long low island, below the mouth of the "Old Town Creek" is the famous Rebel "Fort Clifton" Why does it not ''open on" our trains, that are passing down the road from City Point? Let us ask this officer ''why, sir, Buffers battery of Spring Hill com mands them, and would knock the al out of them in minute"
 Now we will ride down to the 9th Corps Hospital, at the intersection of the turnpike with the Petersburgh and City Point R. R. Here is the flag of the lst Divsion-the red cross. A large hospita! tent contains the wounded of to-day's fight from the Litch6eld County Regiment, We will take their names and inscribe them upon the "roll of honori"
 Truman Favreau, Go. K, thigh
 Henry Nicholson, Co. A, foot, seriously.
 Corp. Jos. Parker, Go. NJ, finger amp. Sergt Ews. ' L, back, seriously.
 M. Walter, Go. D, hip.
 John Christie, Co. 6, leg.
 Henry Pease, Go. Il, head, serious, proba- ply dead.
 And here among the graves, two head boards read
 "Birdsey Gibbs, Co. E, End Conn. Art"
 "Alfred June, Co., K, "
 This place was shelled out O.. Sa...urday, and If you want to know why it :s not shelled out to-day, ride through th;s :.iump of trees little to the right and Front. "A negro battery ?''- Yes, and tt',s sane negro battery is the only secur''y that the wounded sons of Litchfield County nave for their lives. mile across the pl-,n, you see a rebel signal station. There, a little to the left, were the rebel gun and last Sunday morning, for two hours, these negroes made that place hot with shell and shot" and i the rebels have been not "at home' there ever since.
 Along the ridge of hills that overlook the k. R. track from the south side, through the camps of the Reserve troops, we will ride to the first Of tie line of forts built by the Rebels | to deisnd the city and taken last week by the 18th Corps. These are directly in front of the l town of Rlandford which lies nestled in the 1 valley, not mile away. From this ohe oc cupied by Go. l, lst Conn., Ar, with three 32- lbs. Parrots under Capt. Burton-looking down and across the plain. we see the right of our established infantry line of battle, on the right of Rlandford, and within few hundred rods of Petersburgh, between the R. R. track and the river. There, all day, the 2nd Conn. Artillery have been knocking at the gates of the proudest city in the cold Dominion. " What a record this Rcg't has made in this campaign! None can write it but those who have witnessed and shared it's pers and fla tigues but, when written. page of heroic in cidents, both individual and combined, will be added to the history of our Commonwealth. : | Still further to the left we pass the forts whose capture, by force of colored troops, was marvel of wild, bold, almost reckless daring. Guarded in front by a deep ravine- filled with untrimmed fallen trees, and protect ed on each side by formidable and we'll man ned riae-pits no more bold and difficult achievement can be conceived than this assault and capture. In front of these lies the 9th Corps, looking up from this rife pits to the city church-spires, and engaged in constant skirmish with the enemy.
 We will ride across the track of the Peters burgh and Suffolk R. R., at point, about l 11a miles from Blandford, and look through an opening in the trees, across the fields, where the floating stars and stripes reveal the front battleline of the 5th Army Corps Here you can see how our brave soldiers live on the field of battle. Fifty yards in front of them we trace the Rebel line, marked by newly up heaved sand. "All is quiet along the lines" and yet, at irregular intervals of few seconds, shots are exchanged" that keep line of stretchers crossing to the rear. We have reached the left flank of our crescent front, threatening the city on its southern side.
 "Why does not Gen. Meade attack the city by assault or shell it out?" I do not know why he does not, but think I know why you would not. Within the bounds of Petersburgh are hundreds of Union citizens, waiting for