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of the charge when they were ordered up to support Gen Lawler this I pronounce untrue. Although I was not in the charge myself, was in a posion, as skirmisher, to see all that transpired; all the Regiments that were ordered forward from our Brigade done their duty with honor to themselves. The 77th Ills. had their flag, and State banner, planted on the fort and lost them both. Also the 130th Ills and 48th Ohio were up to the fort. Two guns from the Mercantile Battery were within fifty yards of there pouring in canister with a will. When our forces were driven back there were not Batty. men enough to bring away the guns, so rather than loose them, they brought them to the top of the hill and started