Note 63 — XVII. BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA.
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“They were so concealed there was hardly any seeing them. In this way we marched between nine and ten miles, their numbers increasing from all parts, while ours was reducing by deaths, wounds, and fatigue, and we were totally surrounded with such an incessant fire as it is impossible to conceive. Our ammunition was likewise near expended.” “Diary of a British Officer,” Atlantic Monthly, April, 1877.