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left centre, in front of General Hancock’s corps.— This is the place where a whole Florida Brigade surrendered, and is marked by a large pile of muskets, cartridge-boxes, knapsacks, «fcc., lt;fcc. OurBatteries got an enfilading fire on them at the time they charged our line, and rather than risk being annihilated by running through that sweeping fire of grape, canister, shell and shrapnell, they surrendered. On this portion of the line, a body of rebels actually chargod up to our guss and some laid their hands upon them. Many of them had their brains knocked out by our men with tho butts of their gunsl I was talking this evening with a rebel Lieutenant (wounded) who«was in that charge. I asked him—“After, your men got their hands on our guns, what did they do then?” He sat for a moment, and then remarked, u They faded awayt'9 So it was from our centro to our extreme left—when tho rebels charged, they faded away. Some of the hardest fighting was done insido of what was, two weeks ago, a beautiful cemetery, but now torn to piecos.— Horses are strewn thick all over the field, and they have just commenced to burn them.This town and the country for miles around, isthick with wounded rebels, and their dead and wounded are strewn from here to the Potomac.— They can only be oounted by the acre. The woods and mountains, too, arc full of stragglers and rebel deserters.
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Crawfordsville Weekly Journal
Crawfordsville, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 23, 1863
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