11 of them, but the rest stood like statues; they kept on firing till there was but two left, when, one of them being shot, the other jumped down. “The town is about the size of Northampton ; all the houses near the breach were completely battered down, and most of the others damaged. “ In the morning I ' turned to the camp, and by day light retraced my steps of the night before. In every place 1 passed a great many wounded; I saw eight or ten shot through the face, and their heads a mass of clotted blood, many with limbs shattered, many shot through the body, and groaning most piteously ! I found the body of my brother officer on the hill, his pantaloons, sword, epaulet, and hat, taken a- way ; the dead lay stretched out in every form, some had been dashed to pieces by bombs, many had been stripped naked, and others had been rolled in the dust, with blood and dirt sticking all over them! “ When I came to the spot where the grape-shot first struck us, the bodies lay very thick! but even there they bore no comparison to the heaps in the breach, where they lay one upon another two or three deep, and many in the ditch were half out and half in the water.
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