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and Henry houses. General Beaureguard told Col. Hunton to charge through that woods and then move by the left flank to the Henry house. Before he started, he told me to ride through the woods and ride up and d&wn the far edge | of it and see if there were any Yankees there. I rode | through the woods; there were no Yankees. He charged through the woods and then went to the Henry House where the hard fighting was taking place. Gen. Beaureguard ordered him to fall back a short distance; he did so and made the men lie down. If he saw a man raise his head from the ground he would tell him to lie down. Col. Hunton was on his horse. The balls were flying quite fast. Major Berkeley told him he thought they might get down and shelter themselves behind their horses. Col. Hunton said he feared it would have a bad effect on the men. After awhile he did get off of his horse; I was glad when he did for I wanted to get off mine. I got down but had to mount again for a battery had opened fire in the rear of us, and I had to go to find out if they were friends. There was corn around the Henry house and I do not think I saw a stalk that was not struck by £ bullet. I suffered for water that day as I did not have a canteen! In the morning, after twelve o’clock, I went to look for water, and found a pond in a cornfield. It was so warm it did but little good. After going to the Henry house, I got a canteen and found a nice spring. The balls were flying thick around it, but I had to stop and drink and fill my canteen. I think a man will risk his life for water.
About the middle of the week we went back to Loudoun Coun ty, where we lived well, until the battle of Ball’s Bluff which occurred on the 21st of October '61.
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