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wounded. Again, on the 27th, the enemy charged our right wing, and the Third
was ordered to open up on them, which it did with telling effect.

On the 31st, Corporal Jones was killed by a random picket shot, and Private
Lee was wounded by the same ball.

When, on the 4th of June, the New Hope line was abandoned for the Lost
Mountain line, and that afterwards for the Noonday Valley, the Third Maryland
took part in every movement. On the 22nd, at Marietta, the battery was ordered
out on the field to join in General Stevenson's famous charge upon the enemy's
right wing, but was held in reserve. Stevenson was repulsed with the loss of a
thousand men.

The Maryland battery lost none, though under a severe artillery fire the
whole time. On the night of the 4th of July the battery was ordered to the
Chattahoochee River, thence to Mill Creek road, where, on the 2Oth an attack
was made by the enemy and repulsed. General Johnston was superseded by
General Hood on the 14th of July.

The next day the battery was ordered to Atlanta, and on the morning of the
22d was assigned to a position in Peach Tree Street redoubt, at that time an
unfinished work. When completed it was circular in form, having a parapet right,
left and rear, with five embrasures. In the afternoon the battery began to reply to
the enemy, who had moved up within reach, and toward sunset, General Loring
coming up, ordered the firing to be made as rapidly as. possible, so as to attract the
enemy's attention and create a diversion of their forces from the left, upon which
the Confederates were making a charge. This movement was a success. About
three thousand prisoners, twenty-eight pieces of artillery, and a considerable
quantity of ordnance stores were captured.

Our batteries kept up a continuous firing night and day for several days to
prevent the enemy from advancing their line. Two thirty-two-pound siege-pieces
were now brought up, one of which was planted in Peach Tree Street redoubt,
and the other two hundred yards in the rear. Captain Corput (now temporarily
in command of the battalion) placed Lieutenant Ritter in charge of these guns,
detailing men to work them from Rowan's and Corput's batteries. Several
attempts made by the enemy to plant batteries in our front were frustrated by
aid of these guns.

On the 20th of August Captain Corput was wounded and Captain Rowan
took command of the battalion, which left Lieutenant Ritter in command of the
Third Maryland.

On September I Atlanta was evacuated, and the army fell back to Lovejoy
Station. The enemy followed, and on the 4th we fought them two miles north
of that place, to such good purpose that on the 5th they returned to Atlanta.

The movement of Hood's army to Sherman's rear began on the 20th of