Once a determined onset was made from the East, and was met by the equally determined resistance of nearly our whole force.

Our fire was so galling that a large number of our foes crowded into a house on a knoll, and making loopholes in its walls, began replying to us pretty sharply.

We sent word to our faithful artillerists, who trained the gun upon the house.

The first shell screamed over the roof, and burst harmlessly beyond.

We suspended fire to watch the next.