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encircling my entire position except my extreme
left flank, or northern front. I acted as I did
on the 27th and likewise, broke his center
twice, but instead of moving his right wing as
before toward his center, he moved it by the "flank"
under cover of his artilery and sharpshooters up to my ditch again
and by digging a small place, or bank ¹ [front?], that intervened
between the head of the ravine and said ditch, which
was not more than one foot in thickness, filed into
the same, with however a much smaller force than
before, most of whom however were either killed,
or wounded in attempting to storm my works,
and afterwards in attempting to effect his retreat.
A portion of the 173 New York while in this ditch
made a most determined effort to drive me from
my position, and [so] close was the contact that the
guns of the combatants were [mingled?] together at one
point, and it was only by the most desperate fighting
that they were driven off. About half of this party were
killed upon the top of my parapet. And amongst
the killed was the Major of the regt. I had a small
flanking pit, constructed on the outside or rather
under my works, and on the left through and from
which I kept continued a deadly fire, until he left
the ditch. This pit was subterranean, and could
not be seen from the outside, and could not be
¹ During the June 14th attack, the Federal troops dug a trench connecting a ravine, up which they were moving, with the fort's exterior ditch. This provided cover for them as they moved into the ditch, from which they tried to scale the fort's dirt walls.