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As we started for the hedge on a double, suddenly, through the se swarh the thicket, cli forith shouts and hurrahs Then the naked form of an Indian appeared; another, another; the militia, disconcerted and surprised, struck at theunstocks, wavered, turned, and ran toward us

I had already deployedon as we opened to let theh; then we closed up; a sheet of flaers; another, another!

Bolt upright in the stirrups, I liftedhorse a soldier in green went down screa to death under a dozen clubbed rifles; then a yelling reen-coated soldiers, forced and crushed back into the hedge, turned at bay; and into this writhing throng leaped e, Captain Renault!" came a calling with his frantic horse

A mounted officer near hi, Colonel!"

"Then stop the his horse to a stand His voice was lost in the swelling roar of the fusillade where ht, through an open field, I saw theabout wildly There cae fountain of flaon! Butler'shis ar from the field!"

It was true One of those dreadful and unaccountable panics had seized thecould stop the; officers rode into the retreating lines, begging and i them to stand The pressure on my riflemen was enormous, and I ordered thee of woods They obeyed very coolly and in perfect order, retiring step by step, shot by shot

Massachusetts infantry were holding the same woods; a few Tryon militia rallied to us, and Colonel Gray took coo and help Willett stop theus aid!"

I peered about h the bushes into the open field, and hurledthe line of retreat