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Co. Aytch

CHAPTER XIII
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We followed in hot pursuit; but from their main line of entrenchment--which was diagonal to those that we had just captured, and also on which they had built forts and erected batteries--was their artillery, raking us fore and aft.
We passed over a hill and down into a valley being under the muzzles of this rampart of death.

We had been charging and running, and had stopped to catch our breath right under their reserve and main line of battle.
When General George Maney said, "Soldiers, you are ordered to go forward and charge that battery.

When you start upon the charge I want you to go, as it were, upon the wings of the wind.

Shoot down and bayonet the cannoneers, and take their guns at all hazards." Old Pat Cleburne thought he had better put in a word to his soldiers.

He says, "You hear what General Maney says, boys.


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