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completely severing his right leg from his body at the knee. The lines stood four deep in the pits, the 24. Ind. in the advance on the right of our Brig supported by the 76th IA. and we in the advance on the left supported by the 69 Ind. The 89 Ohio was in the advace on the right of the 3 Brig resting on our left. The order was given to charge the advance line immediately started with whoop and a yell Our rout lay for the first hundred yards, over the brow of a hill exposed to a raking fire from two forts, with an abattis work of bush and fallen timber which for a man without any oposition was hard to get through, on this hill we suffered the most but no man but what was wounded faltered, then we had to cross a valley of fallen, and tangled timber every man doing his best firing while on the run and then droping behind a stump or log to reload At a distace of fifty yards there was another abatis more dificult than the first, as I was clambering through it I saw a flash