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soon drove them from their guns, down

behind the breast works, and as

soon as a rebel Showed his

head over the top he got a

bullet through it, here a cannon

ball (a little Six pounder) came

So near my arm (near the left shoulder)

that it carried away both coat and

shirt. just breaking the Skin, it numbed

my arm so that I thought it was off,

but in a few minutes I was able to fire

again, in the after noon, we rather

got the worst of it, or should if

reinforcements had not come up, for

our cartriges were all gone and the

rebels pushed on hard, but the fresh

men soon routed them, it rained

all day so were wet though, we only

lost in this regiment 7 killed and

37 wounded, So you see that a

Soldier does not run so great a risk

as people Suppose, the rebels are laying