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arallel with which, along the main road, ran a broad and deep ditch, which was considered, impassable as far as the avenue leading to the house. This ditch was continued beyond the avenue along the road, but was not regarded as offering any serious obstruction. Around the house and enclosing it from the field was a patent plank fence.--The length of the avenue from the main road to the house our notes do not state, and whether it was fifty or one hundred and fifty yards as told us by Lieut. Nethercutt, we cannot state with certainty. Col. Robinson now consulted his officers, and communicated his plan of attack. It had been ascertained that a sentinel was posted at the mouth of the avenue, whom it was resolved to capture if possible without shooting him or creating any alarm; but at all events to silence him. Two men were sent forward for this purpose, and finding it impossible to secure him otherwise he was shot down. At the report of the gun by which the sentinel was killed,