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The ditch was twelve feet wide and about eight deep, and the parapet was about twelve feet high, making its crest about twenty feet above the bottom of the ditch. The berme usually left between the bottom of the parapet slope and the ditch was cut away so as to leave no level standing-place at the top of the scarp. This was the work which Longstreet afterward assaulted.
F G the berme, or place left to prevent the parapet from washing down into the ditch. G H the scarp or interior wall of the ditch. H I the bottom of the ditch. I K the counterscarp. L M N the glacis, which, except the abatis near the ditch, is left free and open, so as to expose the assailants to the fire from the parapet.
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