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while looking on whiz came one then another cannon ball, one striking the building I was in. they have a savage kind of whistle as they pass one I could [feel?] the wind in my face they went so close one shell came through a frame building on the opposite side of the square and burst within ten feet of me I have a piece of it in my napsack for a memento. we slept on our arms thinking to renew the fight in the morning but the rebels were gone out of sight they sent in a flag of truce however demanding a surrender in four hours, the Fools thought they could scares us when they found they could not whip us. But we were prepared for them and at the end of four hours they were