A Private Chapter of the War (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excitement, and every eye is strained toward the woods skirting our front. An orderly sent to order in our out posts returned wounded. The others were absent on duty. Bailey, said the General to the writer, would you mind ordering in those fellows A horse, - a hasty mounting, a dash over the works, a dash over the intervening space, - and the order was delivered. The pickets of the outpost were already engaged with the advancing Confederate skirmish-line, and little leaden messengers hissed and whizzed uncomfortably close, cut ting through the air and foliage. A recall of pickets, an excited and confused falling in, and a hasty repair ing to our lines, closely followed by the advancing Con federates. Other pickets are coming in rapidly, and the general report is, They are coming on us heavy!

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