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the writer saw but one or two lines of breast-works.
After he reached Annapolis, he was inclined to write to the President, and to say that 10,000 men could take Richmond on a sortie.
He did not write, however; if he had, the probabilities are that he would never have heard anything about it.
Two years later the writer was wounded and taken prisoner in the Shenandoah Valley.
For two months he lay in the enemy's hands, but with all that could be given by brave men who scorned to take advantage of the helpless.
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