The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-24

| the official reports of Gen. ID. Il. Hill.
the sixth and twelfth Alabama met with
q fearful loss and -etired from the
| field. The losses in Ksarny's division
during the battle were Uns hundred and
ninety three killsd. eight hundred and
sixteen wounded with eighty missing.
The losses in Hookers division dpriny
the battle were sixteen killed, ore hun
dred and twenty mine wounded and nine
missing. Kearny's division suffered a
loss OF fourteen per cent of its effective
force upon the field at Fair Oaks. 1t
was at tine battle OF Fair Oaks during
the panic in Casey's division when
pressed back by the confederates, that
General kearny conceived the idea of
army bhdges and a few days after the
| battle ne Issued On order to his division
that all officers and men of his division
should wear square patch or badge of
| scarlet cloth on the cap or hat so as TO
be visible at all times. In the spring of
1868, when the army badges were de-
signed by Gen. Warren and Gen. Butter
field and adopted by the army of the Pc
tolnac the red diamond was awarded to
KeaIny's division III honor of its old
commander and it's designation changed
from 3D. TO 1st division. From the first
to the TWEEN tyfifth of Jnne active opera
tlons oy Mcolellan' g army were suspend
cd, owing Ito tbs unfavorable weather,
and on account of the bridges having
been carried away by the freshets. On
June twenty fifth Gen. Mcclellan Or
dered Hooker to advance SiGkles' brigade
TO the north side OF the Williamsburg
road, and to advance Growers to the
south side, the two brigades to be sup
ported by Kearny's division. Thus
Hooker opened the fight in the seven
days battle at Oak Grove with ARMS
tsad's confederate brigade of Hugar's di-
vision on the north side of the Williams
burg road. and with Wright's brigade OF
the same division ON the south side OF
the road. Later Ransom's and Mahone's
brigades We're sent to the support of
Wright's and Armistead's brigade. The
struggle lasted until night fall, when the
men OF both divisions bivouacked for
the night nenr the battle field, the con-
federates falling back to the vicinity of
Mechanicsyille.
The affair at Oak Grove ended MoClel-
lan's offensive ampaign on the peninsula.
or forward movement upon Richmond
Gen. Jackson, with his corps having ar
rived from the valley ON the day before
he having been appointed to the COM
mand uf the Confederate army, took
the offensive. On the thirtieth Hooker S
and Kearny's divisions were engaged
with Longstreet's division near the
Quaker Road. On the same day kenrny' g
ana dO0KGr'S DIVISIONS moved D20k to
Glendale, when Kearny's division was
placed in position so as to guard the
space between the Charles City and the
New Market roads, Gen. Robinson's bri-
gade, formerly Jameson's, was placed on
the left, Gen. Biruey's brigade on the
right with Gen. Berry's brigade in re-
serve. Gems. Hooker's division was
formed on the right Of Gen. Sumner's
Cd corps. Gen. McCall's division of the
fifth corps WIS formed on Kearny's left
and front. The
CONFEDERATE ATTACK
about noon was directed mainly against
Gen. McCalls division in great force and
with furious violence. MoCall's division
had suffered severely few days before
ns the battle of Gaines Mills or Gold
Harbor, and was reduced to less than six
Thousand men. McCall's division was
driven back, losing three hundred and
seventeen killed, one thousand one hun
dred and fifty three wounded and one
thousand five hundred and sixty-three,
including Gen. Mccall, were taken pris-
oners, loss OF one half of his command.
Gen. Kearney moved forward his division
and filed the gap caused by the defeat
of Mccall. Longstreet's and Huger' s