The 1st Battalion was in the line.

I heard the Colonel read out to the officers the orders for the attack.

We were not told that the whole thing was what our soldiers call "a fake".

As he read the orders for the next morning, they sounded serious, and I was invited to be present, which of course I gladly consented to.

The guns were to open fire at 4 a.m.I had been away from Headquarters for some time so (p.