THE BATTLE OF THE PETERSBURG CRATER.

RELICS IN THE CRATER MUSEUM.

1. Musket-barrel with bullet hole at the muzzle.
2. Musket burst by two bullets meeting the barrell
3. Musket struck by six bullets, one embedding itself in the barrel near the bayonet
4. Musket bent after having been cocked and capped
5. Musket stock covered with blood, found in a bomb-proof
6. Sword found in a bomb-proof
7. Broken sword
8. Lining of a cartridge box
9. Canteen perforated by bullets
10. Shovel having bullet-holes, found on the Union picket line in front of the Crater
11.Frying pan having bullet-holes; taken out of the Crater.
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In the engagements of the 17th and 18th of June, in order to ion, the three white divisions lost 29 officer s and 348 men killed ; 106 officer s and 1851 men wounded; and 15 officers and 554 men missing,-total, 2903. From the 20th of June to the day before the crater fight of July 30th these same divisions lost in the trenches 12 officers and 231 men killed; 44 officers and 851 men wounded and 12 men missing,- total, 1150. These casualties were caused picket and shell firing, and extended pretty evenly over the three divisions. The whole of General Willcox's division was on the line for thirty days or more without relief. General Potter's and General Ledlie s divisions had slight reliefs, enabling those officers to draw some of their men off at intervals for two or three days at a time.

In the engagement of July 30th the four divisions of the Ninth Corps had 52 officers and 376 men killed 105 officers and 1556 men wounded ; and 87 officers and 1652 men captured - , total, 3828.

It was provided in General Meade's order the movement that the cavalry corps should make an assault on the left. Two divisions of the cavalry were over at Deep Bottom. They could not cross the river until after the Second Corps had crossed, so that it was late in the day before they came up. Indeed, the head of the column did not appear before the offensive operations had been suspended. As General James H. Wilson had been ordered to be in readiness and in view of the unavoidable delay , of General Sheridan, orders were sent to Wilson not to wait for General