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taken by the rebels in our very truck that morning, and right where we brought our gun into line, lay 6 horses and a limber with had been destroyed but a few hours before. The rebels made several charges to take our battery but we just more than mowed them down.

  During the next hour we we lost the following numbers of the battery. 

Andrew Finney (a married man) on No 3 Gun. and WH Wiley (Single) " Do [under No. 3 Gun] both killed instantly by the same solid shot. Johny S. Stagg killed by a shell.

  Sergt A S Adams (my sergeant) wounded in the right ankle. 
  Corp A. H. Garner (of our squad) shot through the thigh. 
   3rd Lieut T.D Griffon badly wounded in the back while nobly performing his duty.  
  Jno C. Camber slightly wounded in the leg.   J.W Bloom face badly burnt.  Corp Jackson D. Howan slightly cut by a piece of shell in the forhead.   W.H.S. Odell, merely stunned by a bursting shell.  All these Casualties happened before 11 o'clock Wednesday a.m.  
      We continued to hold this position firing continually till after dark. 
   When the firing ceased on both sides At 12 o'clock Wednesday night we watered and fed our horses without unhitching and got a couple of hard crackers for ourselves, not having eat anything from 6 that morning. 
    When everything was quit we buried