CHAPTER VI.

Our new Colonel.--Great dissatisfaction thereby.--Part of the Sixth re-enlist.--Deserters shot.--Death of Captain Allen.--Up to Virginia under Butler.--Ascend the James river.--Bermuda Hundred.--Skirmish with the enemy.--Battle of Chester Station.--Death of Captain Wilcox.--Advance on Drury’s Bluff.--One of Butler’s “masterly movements.”--Battle of Drury’s Bluff.--Union forces “change front to the rear.”--Resignation of our new Colonel.--Appointment of Captain Rockwell as Colonel of the Sixth.--President Lincoln rides by.--“What mean those cheers.”--Battle of Strawberry Plains.--Hancock’s works.--Battle of Deep Run.--In holes around Petersburg.--Discharge of the non re-enlisted men.--Their reception in New Haven.