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Charles Arad Gates letters, 1861-1863
1862-11-18 Charles A. Gates to Mr. Arad Gates Page 3
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but we soon put a stop to that. We drove the rebs away from their guns and kept them away quite a while in a little while one of them crept up on the hill an fired the prolong to the (illegible) and so they managed to get them off. Gen. Sumner had strict order not to cross the river or he would have sent the cavary across and we could have got their guns but he had strict orders not to cross the river. We have layed here all day but have not seen any more of the rebs battery. We took the rebs completely by surprise. They expected we would advance along the road and they
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but we soon put a stop to that. We drove the rebs away from their guns and kept them away quite a while in a little while one of them crept up on the hill an fired the prolong to the (illegible) and so they managed to get them off. Gen. Sumner had strict order not to cross the river or he would have sent the cavary across and we could have got their guns but he had strict orders not to cross the river. We have layed here all day but have not seen any more of the rebs battery. We took the rebs completely by surprise. They expected we would advance along the road and they
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