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To-day it is 14 days since we commenced fighting and yesterday the cannon and small arms were still at work. But the fight was not real heavy all the time, the hardest fighting was on the 5.6.\u0026 7 and on the 9, 10 \u0026 11 days of this month. During them six days it was awful. There was one continual roar of thunder all the time from the artillery and small arms.","For six days the Battle was kept up, all the time day and night, in the dead hour of midnight, the cannon \u0026 musketry was thundering all the time. Column after column the Yankees pushed their men up to our Breastworks and our men were cutting them down as fast as flies. The dead Yankees are heaped up in piles half as high as a man, in front of our Breastworks, and all around on the Battlefield the dead yanks are lying just as thick as they can be, and none of them buried, they will all rotten on top of the ground.","Now you may know how it is down here. 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