ankee position across the vast field of tall grass and wheat, I was confident that their numbers would be quite depleted in strength when it actually came time for our infantry to attack. Amazingly however, the Yankees soon began to match our artillery fire with their own. The difference between our gunners and those of the Yankees, was that while Confederate artillerymen were deadly accurate at long range, the Yankee gunners held their strength in accuracy at shorter ranges.
             My men seemed to be entirely unphased by the hissing of the enemy shells. Both their minds and my own were focused only on one thing, defeating the enemy and finally winning this damned war once and for all. The constant booming from the barrage of artillery lasted for nearly an hour. When the abrupt cease of the cannonade finally came, it was followed by the synchronized familiar t
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