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cept one and that was in
the vacinity of the mill from
which the battle takes its name.
About 4 pm Genl Whiting was
ordered to carry the positions
at Gaines Mill, we were order-
ed to carry the positions which
McLelland considered as the [Gib?]
[?] of all positions around
Richmond, our men had been
hurled again and again against
it and each time came back
with bleeding decimated and
discouraged [?] fresh troops
after fresh troops have been put
in and all had failed loos-
ing heavily but inflicting no [?]
upon the Yanks, who were secure
behind their fortifications