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Updated: June 8, 2025
Ere she reached it some last stones were flung by the retreating crowd, a last shot fired in the air, fired at random, but speeding with as unerring aim to her aching, anguished breast, death-freighted and life-destroying, but not till she had reached her destined point and end; not till her feet failed close to that bruised and silent form; not till she had sunk beside it, gathered it in her fair young arms, and pillowed its beautiful head from which streamed golden hair, dabbled and blood-bestained upon her faithful heart.
And the order went pealing down the line, "Ready! Close ranks! Charge bayonets! Forward! Double-quick, march!" and away they went, under a scattering fire, in one compact line till within one hundred feet of the fort, when the storm of death broke upon them. Every gun belched forth its great shot and shell; every rifle whizzed out its sharp-singing, death-freighted messenger.
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