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Howitzer guns, lie ordered them to speedily double load
with canister and grape. This done, he gave the order,
“Limber to the front! Double quick, march!” and
broke out of the line, galloping down the hill so that
the dust rose high in the air, Stolbrand’s long, red
whiskers floating behind him. Generals McPherson and
Logan caught sight of him just as he had started, and
shouted to him: “Come back with that battery,” but
Stolbrand, never turning his head, galloped on with the
battery down the hill and up the intervening ridge. Jnst
as he reached the crest of the hill he ordered “action
front,” and the rebels, scrambling up the other side of
the same hill, were literally mowed down; those who
were not killed or wou nded rushing back to their lines
as fast as their legs would carry them. This done,
Stolbrand came leisurely riding back, not a gun or man
lost. This closed the battle for the day. The next
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morning the enemy had retired.
After the investment of Vicksburg our engineers
gradually approached the enemy’s line by throwing
up embankments and digging trenches in zigzag lines
until the whole army or at least General McPherson’s
corps was within a few hundred yards of the enemy’s
fortifications. In the angle of these trenches and
redoubts, at the very nearest point to the enemy’s works,
General Logan had established his headquarters, and
day and night they could hear the tenor of the
musketry and the bass notes of the cannon balls passing
over their heads. But a more jolly place wras not to be
found in the whole besieging army. General Logan and
his chief of artillery, Stolbrand, kept the headquarters
in a continual roar of laughter. One day a bunch of
officers, among whom I think was Colonel Mattson, had
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