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2        ^Uncle Wayne
fought in this battle too [[blue ink]]
all night and the scene was magnified beyond acception [[guess]]._
Yesterday we carried our fifth parallel beyond Battery Wagner, and turned the flank of the enemy, and this morning we exhalted [[guess]] to make the assault and captive the garrison, but their pickets [[guess]] discovered the engineering plot, we had formed and evacuated both Wagner and Battery Tregg [[guess]] thus leaving us in full possession of the whole island.- You can have no idea of the magnificence of military science until you see the way Kilbourne [[guess]] cleaned them out
Fort [[underlined]] Sumpter [[umderlined]] is one [[underlined]] mass [[underlined]] of [[underlined]] ruins [[underlined]], the walls are all caved in, not gun [[underlined]] left [[underlined]]and looks just like an old brick kiln, the greatest piece of science and skill in modern