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ed; Captain Cruse was shot dead; Captain Lawler was mortally wounded; Lieutenants Munsford and Thompson were killed; Captains Dillon and Wilson, and Lieutenants Kelly and Scanlan, wounded; so that the daring "Egyptian Regiment" stood before the almost overwhelming force without officers. They fell in heaps, dead and wounded.--Companies were bereft of captains and lieutenants, and captains were almost bereft of companies; the other three regiments did their duty nobly. Colonels Oglesby, Marsh, and Logan, dashed along the ranks, waving their hats, and cheering their men on to the conflict. "Suffer death," cried Logan, "but disgrace never! Stand firm!" and well they heeded him. Many fell dead and wounded. Among the latter were Col. Logan and Lieutenant Colonel White. Never, perhaps, on the American continent, has a more bloody battle been fought. An officer who participated, and was wounded in the fight says the scene beggars description. So thickly was the battle fie