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the part of the Cenfederates on the Federal Jmes, which was responded to withgreat spirit, by the enemy, from over two hundred pieces of deep mouthed cannon. Such a fuhl of terrific grandeur, and sanguinary effect lies never been set u before1 or since on tlie western continent. “The dogs of war” let loose weut hurliug in deep thunder tones, the rumbling soundI of musketry, the cries of the wounded and dying, the neighing of liorsef, on both! sides, was certainly the grandest, most furious ever pictured by the most vivid imagination. The moans of the wounded aud dying were borne on the wings of the summer breezes to the far off homes of the loved ones in the Sunny South. The great heart of the people was cast down and the nation was draped in mourning. Friend and foe were buried in one com-and funds in human shape and form, for the time, were only known and recoguized. All tliiugs seemed in sullen abeyance; dnn sulphurous clouds of smoke fifted themselves from ths dreary copse that ooutaiqej) the Federal army, floating slow*
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New Bern Our Living and Our Dead
New Bern, North Carolina, US
Wed, Mar 25, 1874
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