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put into action to support the advance. The enemy had come out to fight us fair, on a series of knobs extending out from Port Gibson, their advance was five miles out from town. By the time we arrived there they had driven them back two miles. The day was oppressively hot, severall of our men were Sun Struck, we were kept on the move untill noon skirmishing over, the hills, when we were ordered to lay down in a deep ravine in a position where we could not fire a gun for fear of shooting our own men in the advance. In this place we laid for two hours, with our own Infantry and Artillery fireing over us, most of the shots from the enemy were fired at our men on the hill, while here our