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Co. Aytch

CHAPTER XII
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They got out of the back window, and through that hail of iron and lead, made their way back with the box of cartridges.

Our ammunition being renewed, the fight raged on.

Captain Joe P.Lee touched me on the shoulder and said, "Sam, please let me have your gun for one shot." He raised it to his shoulder and pulled down on a fine-dressed cavalry officer, and I saw that Yankee tumble.

He handed it back to me to reload.

About twelve o'clock, midnight, the Hundred and Fifty-fourth Tennessee, commanded by Colonel McGevney, came to our relief.
The firing had ceased, and we abandoned the octagon house.


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