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one of our number being wounded in the arm, we then retreated in an oblique direction to the top of the hill, where we found a little ditch washed out by rain large enough to shield our body by lying close, in this we laid all day, firing and being fired at in return. Tuesday Eve I was hurrying to get this epistle finished so as to send it to the Yazoo river by our sutler when a detail came for fatugue, we reported to head quarters, it was for fitting up [illegible] grounds, but as we brought no tools, were back to come again tomorrow. Now for the balance or our exploits. At about noon of the afforsaid day the charge was made all along the lines. Their Batteries are planted on the brow of of a series of hills extending from the Miss River at Warrenton to