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recruits how brave they were and of course the recruits were found to be as daring as they. But alas? I know full well that they will find work enough yet. When we got this position the enemy held another very close to it and on a little higher ground. And besides this they had some sharp shooters at some distance to our right who had a flanking fire on us. Though we were partly sheltered from their fire by the trees that grew along our fence row. Now had our men laid in the trench to load and unclear only rose to fire we would most likely have driven them from their position without loss. Our company acted more sensibly than the other unclear to the example of Berdan Imtra? and a few other old soldiers to whom the recruits look for a patron?. But we had a Sergeant of course an old soldier but a foolhardy wretch unclear for a commission who while showing his bravery in a very foolish manner received a bullet in his head. I could not say that it grieved me much to see him fall, for I reflected that we had better men.