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Paniment to the deep roar of the guns. Thence I rode to the ArtilleryReserve to order fresh batteries and ammunition to be sent up to the ridge ass oon as the cannonade ceased ; but both the reserve and the train had goneto a safer place. Messengers, however, had been left to receive and conveyorders, which I sent by them; then I returned to the ridge. Turning intothe Taneytown pike, I saw evidence of the necessity under which the reservehad “ decamped,” in the remains of a dozen exploded caissons, which hadheen placed under cover of a hill, but which the shells had managed to search° u t. In fact, the fire was more dangerous behind the ridge than on its crest,^dfich I soon reached at the position occupied by General Newton behindMcGilvery’s batteries, from which we had a fine view as all our own guns^ere now in action.
Most of the enemy’s projectiles passed overhead, the effect being to sweepMl the open ground in our rear, which was of little benefit to the Confeder-ates— a, mere waste of ammunition, for everything here could seek shelter,^ud just here an incident already published may be repeated, as it illustratesa peculiar feature of civil war. Colonel Long, who was at the time on Gen-6ra l Lee’s staff, had a few years before served in my mounted batteryExpressly to receive a course of instruction in the use of field-artillery. AtAppomattox we spent several hours together, and in the course of conversa-A ji°n I told him I was not satisfied with the conduct of this cannonade which I
. d heard was under his direction, inasmuch as he had not done justice to hisUistruction; that his fire, instead of being concentrated on the point of attack,Us it ought to have been, and as I expected it would be, was scattered over
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