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Civil War Engineers
Engineers and Mechanics
While these charges were being made by the cavalry their artillery was kept constantly at play, with considerable effect, killing some forty or more horses and mules and damaging wagons.
General Wheeler three times sent a flag of truce to Colonel Innes demanding a surrender, each time claiming an increase of his force and threatening the consequences of a refusal, to which the Colonel invariably replied, in a most defiant manner, "I can't see it, so long as my ammunition holds out. "
Civil War Mechanics
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