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party who were in the woods a few (?) from us. We stood and gave fight & the bullets whistled around us thick as hail, it was at that time I recd ( received) my wound, after I had fired ten rounds, I kept on firing however, at every grey coat I could see in the woods, I (?) next morning I went to see the dead rebels lying in the woods where we had poured in our fire. In some places they were actually piled up where they had taken refuge behind trees & had been killed by our crossfire. I saw a Rebel captain being there, very young and the most beautiful man I ever saw, but handsome men must die as surely as plain ones & and are no more to be pitied . The Rebels were almost every one shot through the head. our men were shot through the legs (? ) mostly- They had muskets while we had rifles, so we had a great advantage over them in the long range of our guns. (?) it takes nerve to make a man stand up as a target for a thousand Rebels to fire at & Warren Ascot had not the nerve poor boy