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Autograph Letter Signed, 6p. quarto & octavo, Near Culpeper, Virginia, February 9, 1864, and reads in part: "..we marched about 11 miles 3 miles beyond Cedar Mountain - it commenced raining about two o’clock P.M. & rained more or less all that night, however we came to near the Rapidan could see a regiment of ‘Johnnies’ up on a hill as plain as could be - did not look more than a mile away - we stopped there formed in to line & had permissino to make very small fires with out any smoke, & not to go into the open field...we soon had a good fire & I went to frying my beef quietly when we heard something near by go ‘boom’ then a whirrling buzzing sound as if some mighty thing was going throug the air with lightening sped, the sound gradually diminishing becomming less & less destined as it left the mouth of an iron bulldog that was about 15 rods in front of us. Then we hear a ‘pop’ then al lwould be still (that is all in the mumming buzzing line) until another bum - there were 6 of these bulldogs or one battery right close by could see the fire as it blazed out of the gun - for 3 or 4 rods...the battery fired some forty shell fired until dark, the rebels making no reply from that direction, we quit firing, but soon we heard the sound of cannon on our left & soon after heard heavy discharge of musketry showing that infantry was engaged - could see the flashes of their guns & hear them yell like 10,000 demons, it was our boys making a charge tehy were not over a mile distant, they continued yelling & firing until about an hour after dark when it gradually ceased altogether then all was quiet...It is reported that the 2nd Corps t hat was the one engaged captured 500 prisoners. ..." VG.
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