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The sixteen guns of the two batteries were massed on a hill and they began to sweep the Southern lines with a storm of shells and shrapnel. The forest and the dark were no protection, because the guns searched every point of the Southern line with their fire. Sherburne's men were forced to give ground, before cannon served with such deadly effect. "What will the colonel do?" asked Dalton.
The Southern skirmishers, brushed away at first, had returned swiftly, and now they were sending a rain of bullets upon the blue cavalrymen. Many saddles were emptied, but the line went on, and struck Sherburne's troop. Harry saw a man lean from his horse and slash at him with a sabre.
It's not more than half a mile away." The army halted a moment and Jackson sent forward a long line of skirmishers through the wood. Sherburne's cavalry were to ride just behind them, and he dispatched Harry and Dalton with the captain. At the first sound of the firing the whole army would rush upon Front Royal. The skirmishers, five hundred strong, pressed forward through the wood.
Of course the man knew all about Sherburne's advance and could readily surmise its purpose. "They're an impudent lot to sit there staring at us in that supercilious manner," said Colonel Talbot. "Shall I take the Invincibles, sir, and teach them a lesson?" Sherburne smiled and shook his head. "No, Colonel," he said, "although I thank you for the offer.
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