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The Red Acorn

CHAPTER XIX
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The cannon shots tear the branches off and dash down the great ranks of Rebels with them." "The arth rocks as when He lays his finger upon hit," said Aunt Debby.
The ground was trembling under the explosion of the fifty-eight pieces of artillery which Rosencrans hastily massed at four o'clock Friday, for the relief of his overpowered left.

"What's them that go 'boo-woo-woo,' like great big dogs barkin' ?" "Those are John Mendenhall's big Napoleons," said a wounded artillery officer.

"Go on, Miss.

What now ?" "The Rebels have stopped coming on.

They are apparently firing back.


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