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of the next day I would find all of my work destroyed
by the heavy artilery, fired from the enemy's guns.
By the 14th June I had lost in addition to the
losses on the 27 May, about thirty more men
in killed and wounded and my sick list,
not withstanding every effort of mine to prevent
it, was quite large. And even many of my men
that I compelled to remain and report for
duty, were so worn down with ague and fever, and
desentary as scarcely to be called soldiers or be of
any service to me. But they could fight, and so
I kept them. When all was summed up, I could
muster only about one hundred and twenty five
men. With about forty additional, from the 49
Ala. regt. who were at the back of my camp as a
reserve. Anticipating a furious assault on the
morning of the 14th, I ordered, the night before, every
man into the ditches, from about my camp, who
were able to load and fire a gun. For nearly an
hour before daylight on that morning, my position
was subjected to the most terrible cannonade that
I had yet experienced, which continued until
day began to dawn, when the artilery ceased, and
the infantry of the enemy began to advance to
the assault with about the same numbers and
in the same [formation]- the crescent - as on the 27th May,
