Sometimes there were hundreds shooting into the camp.

At other times came lulls in which not a shot was fired.
Father was continually cautioning our men not to waste shots because we were running short of ammunition.
And all the time the men went on digging the well.

It was so deep that they were hoisting the sand up in buckets.

The men who hoisted were exposed, and one of them was wounded in the shoulder.

He was Peter Bromley, who drove oxen for the Bloodgood wagon, and he was engaged to marry Jane Bloodgood.