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1862-06-22 Charles A. Gates to Mr. & Mrs. Arad Gates Page 2
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hand side of the Nine Mile Road and about 20 rods from the railroad just above the station last night we had a pretty warm time with the rebels but I guest [sic. guessed] the rebels found it warmer. It was about 4 oclock, when our pickets and Hookers come out fireing [sic. firing] like evry thing. We lay by the guns and all the captain had to say was atention [sic. attention]. We came to a atention [sic. attention] and had only stood but a little while. When the rebels charged out of the wood [sic. woods] on both sides of the Williamsburg road and on the left of the railroad in front of one of Hookers redoubts, one that he had not got finished and had not got but one gun in it as the rebels came out of the wood [sic. woods] yelling like wolfs [sic. wolves] and were goeing [sic. going] to take Hooker[s] Redoubt as they came and we opened on them with 4 guns and you better believed they stoped [sic. stopped?] their yelling pretty quick and all. Dick came running out and toll [sic. told] the capt to give it to them as fast as we could and he jumped up on the brest-works [sic. breastworks] and said a little lower and we shot a little lower and he
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hand side of the Nine Mile Road and about 20 rods from the railroad just above the station last night we had a pretty warm time with the rebels but I guest [sic. guessed] the rebels found it warmer. It was about 4 oclock, when our pickets and Hookers come out fireing [sic. firing] like evry thing. We lay by the guns and all the captain had to say was atention [sic. attention]. We came to a atention [sic. attention] and had only stood but a little while. When the rebels charged out of the wood [sic. woods] on both sides of the Williamsburg road and on the left of the railroad in front of one of Hookers redoubts, one that he had not got finished and had not got but one gun in it as the rebels came out of the wood [sic. woods] yelling like wolfs [sic. wolves] and were goeing [sic. going] to take Hooker[s] Redoubt as they came and we opened on them with 4 guns and you better believed they stoped [sic. stopped?] their yelling pretty quick and all. Dick came running out and toll [sic. told] the capt to give it to them as fast as we could and he jumped up on the brest-works [sic. breastworks] and said a little lower and we shot a little lower and he
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