Sergeant F. M. Paine, Company A; Sergeant J. M. Hall, Company C; Sergeant G. C. Pratt, Company C; Corporal James M. Webb, Company H; Corporal Robert B. Whitcomb, Company H; Corporal P. G. Jordan, Company F; Corporal G. F. Small, Company E; Corporal J. P. Wyman, Company G; Corporal J. L. Fuller, Company C ; Private W. Trafton, Company D; Private C. H. Hayes, Company D ; First Sergeant George A. Whidden, Company H; Sergeant W. Hobbs, Company F; Corporal F. I. Whittemore, Company D; ColorSergeant S. P. Hart, Company H; Privates M. P. Leary, William Barbour, Company H; H. Day, Jr., C. D. Noble, Company F; A. H. Perry, Company G; G. A. Frederick, Company G; Charles H. Harn, Company G; J. C. Brown, Company A; Sumner W. Burnham, Company C; S. F. Haskell, Company C; S. S. Welch, Company C; J. H. Simpson, Company I.

Respectfully submitted,

THOMAS A. ROBERTS,

Col. commanding 17th Me. Vols."

Perhaps there could be no more fitting close to the record of our Chancellorsville campaign, than the following lines anonymously published in a Boston

paper:

"Many and many a weary day
Our lion-hearted legions lay,
Waiting and hoping for the strife,
Weary of an inglorious life.

At last the onward order's given,
With cheer on cheer the air is riven!
And 'mong themselves the soldiers say,
In tones that ill can brook delay,
'Hurrah! Hurrah! boys, this's the day

We cross the Rappahannock.'

Now the encampment 's all alive,
And seems like same vast human hive,-
Now rattle and roll the noisy drums,
The long roll beats and calls to arms!
Then 'forward,' the commander saith,
The soldiers almost hold their breath
And in the very face of death

They cross the Rappahannock.

'Ah! bloody work there was,' they say,
Close where the Rappahannock lay;
Yet firm our valiant columns stood,
Upon that slippery field of blood!
And fast the murd'rous missiles fell,-
A very storm of shot and shell

But, bravely fighting, there they fell,
Beside the Rappahannock.

The sad-eyed stars looked down that night On many a face all ghastly white;

For, thick as autumn leaves, that day

They fell, the gallant, young, and gay,

They would not yield, they would not fly,—

For freedom it was sweet to die;

So, scattered here and there they lie,
Beside the Rappahannock.

Peace! to the loyal and the brave
Who fought, our glorious land to save!
Who fought and fell and found a grave
Beside the Rappahannock wave.
Garlands of cypress and laurel twine
For those who died for yours and mine
Poured out their blood like red, red wine,
Beside the Rappahannock.

or

FTER our return to Camp Sickles, the old routine of a soldier's life was resumed. The camps of the division wore a gala-day ap

pearance. Nearly every company street was ornamented with devices in evergreen, and some of the arches, thus hastily constructed, were of colossal proportions, exhibiting no small degree of artistic beauty and architectural skill. The headquarters of Generals Birney and Ward, and Colonel Hayman, were elaborately and elegantly laid out and decorated.

The division hospital was established near the Potomac Creek Bridge, and our wounded who had been brought back with the army, and those who were afterwards brought in under the truce which was arranged for that purpose, were comfortably situated and well cared for.

On the eleventh of May, the Third Corps was re

viewed by Major-General Sickles. It was sad to notice the decimated ranks of the regiments composing it, as compared with the numbers present on review previous to the sanguinary battles of the Cedars and Chancellorsville.

On the twenty-seventh, the division was paraded to witness the presentation of the Kearney medals. These were of bronze and in the form of a Maltese. cross. They were presented by parties in Philadelphia, at the suggestion of General Birney, to such enlisted men as had particularly distinguished themselves in action by bravery and gallantry. Speeches appropriate to the occasion were made by Generals Sickles and Birney, Colonel de Trobriand, and others. Among the number of the recipients was ANNIE ETHERIDGE; and, as she received the medal from the hands of General Birney, there was not a soldier in the division who did not feel that it was a just and fitting tribute to a brave woman.

The following named members of the Seventeenth were awarded the Kearney badge, or medal of honor, for distinguished and meritorious conduct in action:

COMPANY A.- Sergeants F. M. Paine, Edward H. Crie; Corporal Joseph F. Lake; Private J. C. Brown.

COMPANY B.-Privates James G. Holt, Monroe Quint, B. T. Trueworthy, John Lehanne.

COMPANY C.-Sergeants J. M. Hall, .G C. Pratt; Corporal E. H. Fuller; Private SW. Burnham.

COMPANY D.-Sergeant Stephen Graffam; Corporal F. I. Whittemore; Privates Charles H. Hayes, Amos G. Winter.

COMPANY E.-Sergeants Herman Q. Mason, A. S. Dyer; Corporal George F. Small; Private Charles H. Greeley.

COMPANY F.- Sergeant Wellington Hobbs ; Corporal Austin Hanson; Privates Henry Day, Jr., Charles D. Noble.

COMPANY G.

Corporal Jeremy P. Wyman; Privates James B.

Robinson, George A. Frederick, A. L. Dunnell.

COMPANY H.-Sergeants George A. Whidden, S. P. Hart, J. S. Loring; Private M. P. Leary.

COMPANY I.-Corporal John W. Kendrick; Privates D. A. Wentworth, John H. Simpson, A. J. Harmon.

COMPANY K. Sergeant Isaac 0. Parker; Privates Edward G. Parker, F. A. Butland, G. J. Strout.

On the third of June, Colonel R. de Trobriand assumed command of the brigade, relieving Colonel Hayman, whose term of service expired on the fourth.

The entire command was paraded on the following day to bid adieu to Colonel Hayman, and the gallant men of the Thirty-seventh New York, which was one of the original regiments of Berry's old brigade, and with it had participated in every engagement since the organization of the Army of the Potomac.

On the sixth of June, a portion of the Sixth Corps again crossed the river below Fredericksburg, and occupied the meadow, throwing up lines of works and diverting the attention of the enemy by occasional demonstrations.

At noon of the eleventh, we received orders to be ready to march at a moment's notice. At one o'clock