It crashed through the side; for an instant all was deathly still; we thought it had gone on through.

Then came a roar and a crash; the clapboards flew off the roof, and smoke poured out; panic-stricken Rebels rushed from the doors and sprang from the windows -- like bees from a disturbed hive; the shell had burst among the confined mass of men inside! We afterwards heard that twenty-five were killed there.
At another time a considerable force of rebels gained the cover of a fence in easy range of our main force.

Companies L and K were ordered to charge forward on foot and dislodge them.

Away we went, under a fire that seemed to drop a man at every step.

A hundred yards in front of the Rebels was a little cover, and behind this our men lay down as if by one impulse.