The Second Michigan

A correspondent of the New Yurk Tribuno giving an account of tho batt'e of Fair Oaks, lias the following : I will interrupt tho nurrative of this great battle to say, that if the saino oare ïad been taken oí' tho regimenté iu this tivfaiQD, whiuh had been laked of the regïnents in Couch's división and Berry's n-igade - if the same care had been taken o forra them iuto soldiers wliieh John Cochrune gave to making tho Chasseurs a perfeotly orgauized tighting machine, uid Colonel Poe gave to mak ing the Secoud Michigan as delibérate and mauageabk) in battlo as thoy are in parade, ,ho field of Fair Oaks would have beun as deadly to the rebels as honorable to us. Cuchrane, on the extreme right for wo hours and a half poured a delibérate ire into the cucmy across an open field - so delibérate that evcry one of bis men, obedient to orders, éövcr'ed his rebel accurately with body sights, before hu juilcd the trigger - and lie liurally 3Üed the CDemy's front into a iiuo ot jorpsss- aad, after a íiylit ia the woods, whioh ahvays lavors ükulking, and in the course of whioh he resisted artillery, musketr3-, and a charge of bayonet.s, he callcd the rol!, and th'ü'e was n 4 a man ' nüssinj." Tho dead and wouuded were answered for by their comradës. MThen the dead feil, they lay as they feil. - WUên the wounded feil, they handed their muskots and cartridges to their comrades, and crav;led (ut qf the rankz. Ko sueaking and doletul procossiou of from iour to ten cowards bure them backward. For Shaler, the Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment, and Hamlin, the Major, had so traiued them for the sacred duties of battle, that it was impossible for them to weaken their cause by deserting their ranks on ny pretence whatever, or to waste ammunition by wild firlng or firing conhary to orders. So it was with Poe's Second Michigab. Out on pichel dut y upon a line four m les long, thoy, witliin the short spaee of' two boars, cainc in, fonnori, answored every man to his uaiue, marohed, aud repoitud to Gen. Ileintzi'laian ou the field ot' battle. Borry led thcm tbrough the woodá to a po.sition whicll fianked the swarms of rebels iu possession of Oasey"s pamp and his hcadquarters, and his bastioned fort. There this regiment of severely trained and oarefully-watch;d woodsinen, iu connectiou with two others of Berry's rogiments, opeued a delibérate fire upon the eneniy, so deadly tliat they were cleared out of the open ground around the fort - swept froiu the spaees between the houses and tho lingo wood pile - knocked wholly out of the camp, aud while thoy r;m for refuga into the clapboarded buildings, the bullets Sint in after thein drove them out, and swept the whole crowd üiF the ground. Tho Hecond, in turn, of course, sustained a furious firo, for tho rebel attack was cowhere made by cowards. But whea the roll was callea at evening, not a man was " missing." Of dead and wouuded, there was the inevitable list,