MILITARY ADVENTURES. 65 



much time for them to lay in a stock of 

 courage at our expense, for we were in 

 their entrenched camp before breakfast 

 time the following morning. The storm- 

 ing party had been prepared over night 

 and I was glad to find myself one of them. 

 We knew where to assemble before day- 

 light, so, when all was ready, we moved 

 forward to our appointed places near the 

 stockade. Shortly after this, just at day- 

 light, the Horse Artillery galloped to the 

 front and unlimbered ; and, in a quarter 

 of an hour, they had opened a breach in 

 the wall of the stockade. There the 

 command was given for us to rush through 

 the breach at " the double." With a 

 loud cheer we pressed forward, getting 

 over the intervening space in a few 

 seconds, and rushed into the breach, 

 when the day's work began. We found 



