ed and twenty- five, including Colonel Kaufman, before mentioned; Captain Ed. B. Bead, of the Twelfth New Hampshire; a lieutenant, whose name I have not learned, and Lieutenant J. P. Lane, of the Twelfth New Hampshire, wounded in the thigh.
At the point where this occurrence took place it appears that our lines approach those of the enemy very closely, and the rebels have a picket post close by; at any rate, when they made the move they did, they advanced a line, consisting of parts of Hunton's and Stewart's brigades, quietly forward under cover of the darkness, when our green troops, instead of falling back, as more experienced soldiers would have done, skedaddled to the rear to report that the enemy were upon them.
Having penetrated our lines, the two brigades parted to the right and left and enveloped the pickets on either hand, and succeeded in gobbling in the neighborhood of one hundred and twenty-five of them, and establishing their own picket lines over the captured groun
