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Fourth Cavalry III
This threw the right considerably in advance. The left of the 1st brigade came forward in the same manner, and as I afterwards learned, from the same cause, ' swamp in front of the outer flank.' Thus the right of the 4th Ohio and left of the 123d Illinois gained the works first, the flanks sweeping forward as if the movement had been that of individual echelon. Corporal Booth of A company, 4th Ohio, was the first man inside the works. He was almost immediately afterwards shot through the head. "The works at the point of assault consisted of a breastwork or parapet from six to eight feet high, with a ditch about five feet wide along the entire line. After entering the works we pushed up the line to the left, cleaning the rebels out of the bastions, in which we captured a considerable amount of artillery, until we arrived opposite the fort, near the cotton gin, which formed a portion 0f the inner line of works.
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