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30 Casualties of Co. H 20th Me Vols

We secured the position as ordered and threw out skirmishers down to the front of the hill but none too soon for the rebs were just advancing to secure the same hill that we now had in our grasp.

But it was so dark that they could not see us and did not mistrust us for some time. They would challenge us and ask what regt and we would answer by telling them one that we had taken as prisoners and would get them so near that we would make them surender and we would take them in. The rebs made a blind move and marched a whole company threw our line and was prisoners before they knew it. We staid and held the position all night.

The casualties of Co. H. 20th Me Vols. July 28/63

1st Sargt C.W. Steel shot dead in brest. Sargt B. N. Lathrope shot in bowels died 4th Carporal J. M. Silby[?] shot in right hand Private Aaron Aeleness[?] in brest died inst.

   Godwin Ireland shot in neck died inst.
   Predel Sampson shot in bowels died the 3rd
   G.W. Buck shot in right shoulder died 4th
   B.F. French wounded in left leg