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from the Yankee artillery swept over the top of the hill behind which the Yankee prisoners were lying down, and struck into the hill behind them.
The prisoners naturally stuck pretty close to the ground, and some of them said ‘they were damn-fool Yankees shooting those guns,’ for they were very dangerous to their own men.
At nightfall we resumed our march towards Appomattox.
During Saturday we were on the march, without incident of importance.
In the evening we heard the guns of a skirmish near Appomattox.
We halted about nightfall, about a mile before reaching Appomattox, and for the first time during the retreat the harness was taken off of the horses that carried Colonel Haskell's guns.
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