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Hatchers Run No 2 121

the old rebel breastworks and built them over. About noon skirmishing comensed in our front and it kept up untill the 3d Division charged on the rebs and drove them back and held the field. About 3 oclock P.M. our division worked into the woods where they wer fighting and took a position and lay a few moments while the shells were going threw the woods all around us, and we moved a little farther to the front and formed on the front line. We see the rebs moving to our left not over two hundred yards from us immediately on our front and we [?] in a few volleys which checked them. About this time our 3d division run short of amunition and comensed to fall back threw our line some 400 rods to our right which caused a stampede in the whole front line. We were on the extreem left of our front line, and when the whole right flank fell back and left our regt exposed to 15 times our number would only be madness to try and hold our position for we would all be captured to some prison pen to pay the penalty.