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88 The rain had ceased and the sun shone lightly on their arms as they moved forward cooly as men on parade. Oh it was a beautiful sight though we all knew it meant nothing but fierce conflict. But the old 3d Corp was to well known to admit of a doubt but that they would do all that human valor could do. Not 600 yards to their left was a woods. And as we saw them advance the question naturally presented itself to us whether our forces held those woods or not. Some said they did giving us a reason for thinking so that no General would be fool enough to send that Corp out that way without knowing what was in those woods. At the same instant the white smoke flew up from twelve pieces of rebel artilery which was posted in the woods. Their fire exactly enfiladed the noble corps that had thus been carelessly allowed to be ensnared. The report of the guns had not reached us before more than a thousand men exclaimed "Out generaled again!!!" A single battery which had advanced with the corps wheeled into position how they ever got into position was a miracle but one of the men who belonged to the battery afterwards told me that the