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For an hour they held us but soon the command was
given charge! boys, charge! and with wild yells of triumph our
boys fell upon them and a complete rout + paree was
made in the rebels , guns and equipments Haversacks, [blunkets?]
and every thing that would impede this escape was scattered
in evey direction - what I have said of this running will
not apply to them all for this Brigade took in over three
hundred prisoners- these were exciting times a total rout
of the enemy and we following them up on a run stumbling
over the dead and wounded [?] victory was ours +
a shout on every tongue- we followed them untill nightfall
and returned to the top of the mountain and camped for the
night and I made my bed on a pile of stones this whole
ridge is covered with small stone from the size of a mans
head down to a hickory nut and on these I made my bed but
sleep I did not as it was awful cold
The next morning was occupied in burying the dead the
wounded had been removed the night before both ours + rebel
The losses in which our Brigade took a part were very
surprising to me; the enemy were under cover of their work
and our men exposed + our loss was only four killed + [twenty?]
wounded while I counted twenty five of the enemy killed