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and wounded. We were again formed 

 up, and the artillery, with great difficulty, 

 mounted two guns, which commanded the 

 inside stockade ; they soon opened fire, 

 and in a shor time a breach was made, 

 which enabled a fresh storming party to 

 enter; and in a few more minutes the 

 place was ours. After the artillery had 

 opened the breach they turned their at- 

 tention to sending two live shells into the 

 stockade, and when our storming party 

 entered it, they found themselves sur- 

 rounded by dead bodies, the deadly work 

 of our shells. The enemy being so nu- 

 merous, and the space so confined, they 

 could not get out of the way of the quan- 

 tity of shells that dropped in ; the artillery 

 practice was very good, each shell, when 

 it burst, killing some half-dozen men, and 

 their loss was therefore very great. 



