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ordered aloud the whole line's just as we began to advance Capt. T. fell with a shot in the knee, it is not considered dangerous. After advancing a few steps, up went the flag of truce, and than such cheering and such running is not often heard or seen had that white flag not run up untill half an hour later the 97 would have been badly cut to pieces. The fortifications were so high that it was as much as a man could do to get up without any obstructions but with a crossfire the loss must have been heavy. The garison of the fort was about 200 men & 20 guns two of them in casementes of wood [39?] inches thick covered with rail road irons and four 32 lbs. guns then the rifle pits run out for a mile supported by several batteries of Arty. and about 5 [illegible] infantry. The guns of the fort were all silenced but one 32 pds., and that was death to a gunner to load.