there was no fighting, except an occasional skirmish between the pickets. The day was occupied in collecting and bringing in from the field as many of the wounded from the preceding day's battle as could be gotten at. The number brought in was as follows:

Second Corps............................................... 494

Fifth Corps................................................ 322

Sixth Corps................................................ 154

Ninth Corps................................................ 25

Eighteenth Corps........................................... 706

Total...................................................... 1,701

One hundred empty army wagons, obtained from the reserve supply train on the morning of the 4th, were divided equally among the several corps, and the corps medical directors were ordered to send all wounded to White House, using one-half of their ambulances if necessary. Forty-three new ambulances, which reported on the morning of the 4th, were sent to the medical director of the Eighteenth Corps to assist in the same work. Each medical director also had all of the corps' empty wagons. All the trains were loaded and on the way by 2 p. m., the number being sent was as follows:

Corps. Sick. Wounded. Wagons. Ambulances

Second 17 606 29 84

Fifth 43 420 66 40

Ninth 87 639 60 64

Sixth 14 729 75 58

Eighteenth --- 400 25 43

Total 161 2,794 255 289

No engagement of consequence occurred after this time, and the position of the corps and hospitals remained comparatively unchanged for the following week. The hospitals of the Second Corps were moved to the Tyler house on the 7th, an open elevated location, with excellent water. The wounded and seriously sick were sent back to White House almost daily, the total numbers sent from June 5 to June 13 being as follows:

Corps. Sick. Wounded. Total.

Second 631 976 1,607

Fifth 75 55 130

Sixth 157 178 335

Ninth 461 203 664

Eighteenth 138 904 1,042

Total 1,462 2,316 3,778

The number of sick in the army increased largely during the first half of June, and the severity of cases became greater. The constant labor and watchfulness of the previous month began to manifest its effects. The country was low and marshy in character, the water derived almost entirely from surface drainage, and the condition of the men in the trenches very bad, in a sanitary point of view. For over a month they had had no vegetables, and the beef used was from cattle who were exhausted by the long march through