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Col. O. M. POE, Commanding Second Michigan Volunteers. COLONEL: Early in the afternoon I took one company and skirmished through the woods and over the battle-field as far as the slashing. Beyond this we saw muskets glistening in the sun, which proved to be those of the enemy, who was in some force. The battle-field presented a scene of the wildest confusion. Knapsacks, blankets, tents, hospital and commissary stores, the dead and wounded of both combatants, were strewn indiscriminately over the ground. The baggage, however, had been rifled but very little, evidently showing that the enemy had been too well engaged on both days to have much time to plunder. I remain, very respectfully, your most obedient servant, LOUIS DILLMAN, Major, Second Regiment Michigan Volunteers.
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No. 73. Report of Major Louis Dillman, Second Michigan Infantry, of the engagement at Oak Grove, or King's School-House. CAMP OF SECOND REGIMENT MICHIGAN INFANTRY, June 27, 1862. CAPTAIN: In obedience to orders from brigade headquarters, received in the morning of June 25, I left camp at 7 a.m. on Sunday to relieve the Thirty-seventh New York, then on picket in the woods to the left of General Hooker's line of pickets. Soon after leaving camp I was joined by two companies of the First New York, that were to act as a reserve to the Second Michigan Regiment. By order of Brigadier-General Hooker's line of pickets. Soon after leaving camp I was joined by two companies of the First New York, that were to act as a reserve to the Second Michigan Regiment. By order of Brigadier-General Berry I deployed three companies of my regiment as skirmishers on the old picket line, with instructions to advance the right of the line just fast enough to keep up a connection with the skirmishers of the Third Maine, who were deployed to the right of my line. The two regiments becoming separated, a company of the Third Michigan was thrown onto the line, to form a connection on the right with the Third Maine and on the left with the Second Michigan. The line was now formed, but was left very crooked. On the 26th I straightened the line, and as now placed the pickets are about half a mile in advance of the line as we found it on the morning of the 25th. I would further report that there has been no unusual movement or noise observed on our front while on this tour of picket duty. I was relieved this morning by Colonel Hayman, Thirty-seventh New York. Your obedient servant, LOUIS DILLMAN, Major, Commanding Second Regiment Michigan Volunteers. |
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