Late in the evening the regimental bugler, Uriah A. McComb was shot and killed while putting up a tent for regimental headquarters. Judson Swisher caught him as he fell and ministered to him in his dying moments.

9. The smell from a dead horse in front of us is almost as unbearable as the enemy's artillery. Henry S. Gingery, Company B, was badly wounded this afternoon. Major Sullivant is now sick and in the

rear, leaving the regiment under command of Captain Jones. 10. It has been raining for several days past. We work wet, eat Found time to-day to write a letter or two. annoy us as usual, and the thing is getting a

wet, and sleep wet.

The enemy's guns little old.

Several men were wounded on

II. The day is warm and clear. the skirmish line to-day, among them Jacob Huben, Company K, who gets a bad shot in the leg.

12. Before day we moved back to the line of works from which we moved Sunday. Remained here till sunup, when we moved a mile to the right, relieving troops of the 23d A. C. We are now behind strong works and in a good shade. The men complain of short

rations.

14. Sunday. This is called Willis' Mills, but why it is so named I cannot tell. The Chaplain of the 98th O. V. I. preached to the brigade to-day. An occasional bullet whizzed over the audience, suggesting that carnal and spiritual things occupy disputed ground. Companies A, K and G are in front of the brigade, skirmishing. Andrew Heller, Company E, died in Division hospital yesterday. 15. The line in our front is very quiet. The 78th Illinois Volunteers hold the skirmish line. They are first-class soldiers. have known them a long while. Two deserters came into our lines. Two years ago to-day I enlisted. Am glad of it now. I might have waited and joined a regiment composed of ordinary men. The officers and men of the 113th are composed of superior material.

We

18. Our line is very quiet, if I except the firing by the pickets of both lines. We can hear heavy fighting toward Atlanta, but learn no particulars.

19. Companies C, D, E and H occupy the skirmish line. The First and Third Brigades moved out of the line, leaving the Second to occupy the space which has been held by the entire division.

One of Company B was wounded. In the evening we can hear the music of the enemy's bands very plainly.

21. Mike Huddleston and I went to the rear to-day and gathered elderberries. On our return we saw six rebel deserters coming in under guard. We have no mail for a day or two, and we learn of a raid in our rear near Dalton. John Craig foraged some corn to-day. My messmate, John Ganson, has the colic. That is a bad thing to sleep with.

23. Lieutenant McCrea is not well, and has been back at the tent of Quartermaster Swisher. To-day I went to see him, and assisted him with some accounts pertaining to the company. We made a Clothing Receipt Roll for July and August. Letters from Ohio reach us in five days from their date.

26. For a day or two nothing has happened on this part of the line out of the usual course of daily duty. A strong picket line is maintained close to the enemy's pickets. The two lines often agree not to fire on each other during the day and night; but the next day a new detail comes on, and hostilities again open. An order to move has been issued, and we are harnessed and ready.

27. At 3:30 A. M. we retired from the line at Willis' Mills, and, moving out two miles, halted in an orchard near a farm house and cotton mill. Several good looking women, and a negro with six toes attracted our attention. Late in the evening a light defense was thrown up in our front. The rebels exchanged a few shots with our

rear.

28. Sunday. The division moved at the dawn of day, and for several miles we marched briskly. Halted at 7 A. M., stacked arms and rested. At 9 A. M. we moved southward, passed the 4th A. C., and again halted. The 121st was deployed and drove the rebels from a woody hill on our left flank. At 2:30 P. M. we reached the railroad leading westerly from Atlanta. Companies K, G, H and E stood picket in front of the brigade. We had no dinner.

We understand this movement
We know nothing of the

29. The division did not move. to be to flank the enemy out of Atlanta. details of the plan, but are doing our share in the movement with the utmost confidence of its success, What transpires within a day or two from this will make good reading for our descendants. The companies of the 113th which went on picket yesterday were relieved at 5:30 P. M. We have had plenty of meat and sweet potatoes, but it came near getting us into trouble. We ate two big suppers and enjoyed a splendid spell of nightmare.

30. Reveille sounded early. At seven we marched, going south by

southeast. At A. M. we halted for dinner. Company E was placed on the left of the moving column as flankers. The line moved on four miles further, where it halted for the night. We traveled fourteen miles to-day, mostly southeasterly. Many of the men fell out during the afternoon, and reached the regiment long after we stacked arms. A mail was distributed.

31. Before daylight orders came to be ready to move at once. We did not march, but remained halted till noon, during which timeour artillery shelled a wagon train of the enemy in the distance. Our men are living high on the products of the land. Chickens, hogs, cattle, sheep, geese, turkeys, corn, flour, meal, potatoes and everything eatable is brought in by the quantity. Soldiers have consciences, but they make very little use of them.

At 11:30 A. M. our brigade left faced, and moving left in front, reached a sorghum field at the distance of a mile. Rested an hour. Moved again in an easterly direction, and after going three miles, we halted near a house, at which General Baird had his headquarters. A guard was on duty vainly trying to prevent the soldiers from pillaging the premises. It was no use. They had everything their own way. A lady was exchanging greenbacks for Confederate money, giving six dollars in greenbacks for fifteen dollars of the worthless promises of the waning Confederacy. I felt sorry for her and for myself. I wished that I had my knapsack full of cheap money, and that she had an inexhaustible supply of greenbacks. I would have stayed with her.

Half a mile beyond this our brigade filed left, and formed a line running nearly north and south.

Bolt, Cisco and Craig, who were after beef when the regiment moved at noon, now came up, bringing no beef, but plenty sweet potatoes which they foraged on the way. They reported that they had received the beef but had abandoned it. Then a majority of the company resolved itself into a cursing committee, and the sulphur was ignited. Cisco stood to the front, while Bolt and Craig were held in reserve. The attacking party was repulsed.

At 8 P. M. Captain Jones, the regimental commander, came along the line and told us we would remain here and throw up works. A big fire was built in our rear, and by its light we cut trees and put the logs in position for our protection. We slept at eleven at night. Our column is nearing the Macon & Western railroad, and we are now more than twenty miles from Atlanta. We have been in close

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proximity to the enemy at times during this afternoon, but we have exchanged only an occasional shot with him.

BATTLE OF JONESBORO, GEORGIA.

SEPTEMBER, 1864.

1. At 11 A. M. our forces moved out from the works we had occupied last night, and heading southward, moved slowly in the direction of Jonesboro. At 2:30 P. M. our column passed that of the 17th A. C., and having crossed a small creek, we filed left from the road on which we had been marching, and were moving easterly, when a shot from a battery a thousand yards southeast of us, revealed to us the position of the enemy's line. The battery was in the edge of the woods, concealed from our view. The first shot was succeeded by others in quick succession, and our column, being in an open field, and in plain view, made an attractive mark. Their first shots passed above our heads, but others that followed struck the earth in front of us, or bursted dangerously near.

The 113th formed in line facing the battery, and then left faced and moved to the northeast in an effort to get beyond the range of their fire. We were still in plain view of the rebels' guns, and he was dropping his shells along our line in a fatal manner. One struck in Company I, killing George Kelsey and wounding others. Some of our men sought shelter in a brushy swamp on our left, and those who remained obeyed an order of Captain Jones, to lie down in a gully, which had been washed out by high waters. By this time our artillery was in position, and a few well directed shots from them silenced the rebel guns, and permitted us to rally and move on.

We ascended a hill to a position near a hewed log house, where we halted and stacked arms. Here the brigade was sheltered by a woods in our front. The staffs of the division and brigade commanders reconnoitered the ground in our front, and laid plans for the immediate future. After more than an hour, we took arms and marched left in front into a cornfield, in the direction of the lines of the enemy. Here the command, "by company into line," brought us into line of battle, and descending the slope we reached a ravine running from right to left, and situated more than three hundred yards from the enemy's line. Here a halt was ordered. Our position

was a good one, being hidden from our foes by an intervening hill, covered with corn.

Three companies of the 98th O. V. I., commanded by Captain Roatch, went forward to skirmish, and the other companies of that regiment constructed rifle pits in front of us, near the crest of the hill. The rear ranks of the 121st Ohio, and 34th Illinois, constructed rifle pits in our rear, on the slope we had descended. While this work went on, the 113th rested in line at the bottom of the ravine. When these pits were completed, an attacking column was formed.

All being in readiness, the signal was given, and the attacking column dashed forward, crowding the road to victory as to a feast of fat things; at the same time the second line moved from the ravine and dropped into the line of rifle-pits before mentioned. In a moment more a deafening shout at the rebel line told the story of triumph, and the second line moved at a double quick to the support of the first. As the second line moved up it was met by a body of rebel prisoners who were being double quicked to our rear for safe keeping. We were now at the rebel works. Here lay the cast off equipments and the arms of many prisoners, and here stood the guns of Govan's Battery which had very recently changed owners. It was the same one that had terrorized us early in the afternoon, but now, that the muzzles were pointed the opposite directon, it looked harmless. Here lay the dead and the dying, the one having crossed the great pontoon, the other calling for mercy from that unfailing source opened on Mount Calvary. To say that he was not heard would be to limit God's power to save.

As the 113th struck the works of the enemy a rebel field officer confronted Captain Jones and said: "Where shall I go?" Seizing him by the collar of his coat, and giving him a vigorous jerk, Captain Jones said, "go to the rear, and that quick."

It was now five o'clock; the enemy had either fallen back or had surrendered when the assault was made. The works of the foe were strong and properly constructed, but no abatis or other materials impeded our approach, consequently our men dashed into their very pits before halting to fire a shot.

Quickly re-forming our line, we occupied a position nearly a quarter of a mile to the rear of the works we had taken. We again shifted to the southeast a short distance, and finally, crossing a hollow, ascended to the crest of a hill, and relieved the 121st Ohio, which