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dense masses, within forty yards of the muzzles of 

 Colonel Walton's guns, are the best evidence what 

 manner of men they were who pressed on to death 

 with the dauntlessness of a race which has gained 

 glory on a thousand battle fields, and never more 

 richly deserved it than at the foot of Maire's Heights, 

 13th December, 1862." 



