From The 20th Regiment

Froni tlie Courier. - - - - We make the fbllowing extract froni i a letter written by Sergt. Sheéhan, of Co. H, 20th regiment, to Iiis aunt in ■ tliis city. Althotigh hot written for pnblication, it wijl be found interesting ! to our readers. In Fortiflodtions, ) Seven miles from Rieiimoud. Mï Deak Aunt: I now take the opportunity of writing a few lines to let yon know that I aai alive and in good heaith. Thank God for Iiis blessings that he lias bestowed on me in bringing me safely through the terrible battlos that we have been engaged in for the past month. Our corps crossed tho Rapidan on the 5th of May, and the next d:iy was In the great battle of the Wilderness, in which Gen. Free Pross, of' Detioit, thonght we met with sneh an awful defeat, but where t was I could not see for my part. On the 9th, we inarched eight miles, and fought tlie battle for the possession of Spottsylvania Heights. in which we were enïitely süccësirful, losing only a few men and driving the rebels in confusión behind thcir breasaworks. On the l?th, our división (3d) made a charge on a battery of sixleen guns, in whieh wc were repulsed with a severe loss, the details of which no doubt you have seen before Uiis. White at Spottsylvania, I called on Capt. Judd, of the lst Mich. In. Ho was well. We had quite a chat together. We are now about seven miles a little northeast of Kichmond. Our troops on the left are about three miles from it. Since we joinod the anny of the Potomac, we have been in six general engageme.nts, besides several skirmishes, in which we have lost over two huurt red men. There are now one hundred and sixty-two guns in our regiment, besides nine officers. Our company has lost twenty men and the cnptain. Sergt. David C. Holmes, of our company, was killed on the 7-th while advancing our picket line. He was a good soldier, a fine fellow, and a tentmate of mine. Oh ! this terrible war is taking from our midst the noblest and best of the country, but for my part I would rather saerifieo my lifo tlian submit t.o a dishonorable peace. Nothing but an unconditional surrender and a return to their allcgiance will do. Such a peace the army want, and none ether will they accede to. I ara writing this behind a breastwork. The pickets are firing at each other, and the ballets ave whizzing over our heads and againsl the trees. There are a couple of rebel baüeries in front of na. They send thcir compliments very often in the shape of asliell to our grx-at discomfiture, doing no other damage than cuttitig off trees as big as my body, and making a scattei'ing in tho Kittlo Brigade. I must close to get this in, in linie for the mail. y The Ypsihmti True Demncrat ■of the 17th int., contaius brief letters from Catutain Demüs Phillips of the 37th Michigan Lniantry, a-dvising Lis futher that he was taken piisoner by the rebels on the 12th of May, in 5no of the engiigement8 near Spotteylv-ania Court House. The second letiter was dated Lynchburg, May 19th, and iiid ibe was entirely vve'll, n-d espected to be eent irnoiediately to Georgia. In the Detroit Fvee Press of Monáay evening we notice a dispatch annourcitn;g tihe ecape of Cap,t. Piulups and other oJïicers, and their safe arrival at Eiharieetowa, West Virginia. This will be good news to he foien-ds of Oapt. P. in our eity arad Ypsslaoti.