The heavy fog delayed the start one hour.
The objective point was the salient, where, after the conflict, lay
Lee's soldiers piled one upon another, just as they fell.
The rebel captured numbered 4000, among them Major-General Edward
Johnson, Division Commander, and Brigadier-General Stewart, commanding
a Brigade; a score of guns, with horses, caissons and ammunition, and
several thousand small arms.
Loss to the Regiment, 9 men killed, 1 officer and 27 men wounded.
It was on May 13th, that Grant in a letter to the Secretary of War made
use of the memorable words, "I propose to fight it out on this line if
it takes all Summer."
On the 13th, Grant recommended our old Brigade Commander, Carroll, for
promotion to the rank of Brigadier-General.
Mott's Division was reduced to a Brigade, and assigned to Birney's
Division.
Whatever further might have been done in pressing Lee at Spottsylvania,
was prevented by the heavy rain which commenced on the night of the
13th.
On the 18th, Grant gave orders for the movement by the left flank on to
Richmond.
One road from Spottsylvania to Fredericksburg was now open to Lee, and
on the