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portion of the line had captured it, whereas it clearly appears
that it had been silent for at least two hours, ever since Cap
tain Harrill carried off the artillerymen who had served it.
It was the infantry of the adjoining entrenched camp, &
gether with some others, who had taken refuge in the vacant
fort. that he and Colonel Faison so effectually silenced ; and
we may say in the spirit of the generous Schley, “there was
glory enough for all.”

The possibilities of such independent actions by detach-
ments may be better understood when it is remarked that
within the fortifications on the west side were three ravines,
and on an elevation between the lower one and the river was
planted Battery Worth, with the entrenched camp lower
down. The redoubt at Boyle's steam mill on the road on
this side of the town, appears to have been blown up by a
shell entering its magazine, and «#o it offered no resistance
to our infantry, while that at Harriet Toodle’s, about the
southwest angle, and the intervening entrenched camps were
taken with the connecting breastworks.

The writer was near General Hoke when he received Gen-
eral Weasels, accompanied by his officers, as his prisoner
There was everything in his courteous and considerate bearing
to lessen the sting of defeat. Dismounting from his horse
and clasping the captive’s hand, he assured him of his respect
and sympathy, and added: “After such a gallant defense you
can bear the fortune of war without self-reproach.”

General Wessels’ official report, made after his exchange
four months later, says that Hoke’s conduct was courteous and
soldierlike. His return of casualties, killed, wounded and
missing was 127 officers and 2,707 men, from the Sixteenth
Connecticut Infantry, Second Massachusetts Heavy Artil-
lery, Second North Carolina (Union) Infantry, Twelfth
New York Cavalry, Eigthy-fifth New York Infantry, Twen-
ty-fourth New York Battery, and One Hundred and First
and One Hundred and Third Pennsylvania Infantry. Be
sides 3,000 stand of small arms and some twenty pieces of
artillery, there was a large quantity of all other supplies

In our advance there were no shirks. The respective mus-
ter rolls might be exhibited as lists of those deserving hon-

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