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� 174 feel the enemy. This soon returned announcing that the enemy's line was issuing from the woods into the plain before us. Capt. Platt was at once ordered to open fire with all his batteries and "comb out the woods" to use his own very expression language. The firing on our part was terrific. The enemy at first replied briskly sending shot and shell around us. But they soon stopped. Our fire however kept on uninterruptedly for half an hour. No one could live in front of it and soon we had the satis-faction of learning that the enemy had passed to the left, and across the road.

The firing of our batteries now became slower and slower finally ceasing entirely.