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with his battery of four 12 pound Parrotts and his range was
such that he had to throw them exactly over us or ought
to have done so but many of them went low not as high as
high as our heads even and some struck in our midst and
exploded but no one was hurt At dusk the firing in
our immediate front ceased & I relieved our skirmishers
with a strong picket detail and found me a place sheltered
from the cold wind built me a little fire lay down in
my blanket + was soon sound asleep the last thing I heard
that night was one continued roar of musketry not fifty
rods from me and when I awoke at midnight wet from
a drizzling rain in the early part of the night and chilled
through with the cold the firing had ceased and all was
quiet except the shreiks + groans of the wounded + dying
who had not yet been removed from the field
I was told that the fight had been closed for an hour that the
Rebels had ingloriously fled having ^left their dead and many
of their wounded on the field - I arranged my waiter
(colored) replenished the fire and thawed put my benumbed
limbs had a cup of coffee made and indulged in the luxury
of a hard tack and then shiveringly dreamed of home
and its loved ones - wife mother sisters + brothers all