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� 124 So soon as it was fully day break I laid down to sleep, and awoke at about half after nine, I should judge.
A little while after I was standing in my tent when I heard a few discharges of musketry -- saw a few more -- and finally it became a continuous bropping fire, lasting for perhaps three minutes. Then it ceased entirely. The General was soon aroused. We thought it to be a general attack on our pickets.
Pretty soon it commenced again along our entire line, when the general, being in command, ordered the disposition of our troops for battle. This made lively work for us on the staff.
About quarter past ten the ball opened. The regiments