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through the bowels. Tom McClallan had his left arm broken badly by a minnie ball and it has since been amputated. A.J. Close gunner on our piece was wounded in the jaw by a musket ball. W. H. Tinsley, J.D. Tommey, Chas Hollyland and J.B.Appleton and Geo Gackenhammer, the later two, new recruits were also wounded but none of them seriously. They are all 8 together in the hospital not 500 yds from here and are doing well, except Ed Field, who will probably not recover. It was the hottest place I have ever been in for over 1/2 an hour, but as luck would have it they only killed one horse and we got out with our guns all right.

  Next morning the 23rd we reoccupied Decatur and about 11A.M. our battery was ordered