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ailing. They were beaten back time and again. At one time they came within fifteen feet of Swett's battery, when the 5th Arkansas, with a yell and a volley that echoed high above the din of war, drove them back. Numbers of the men finding their guns so fouled as to be us less, cast them away and threw rocks into the faces of the foe. One Irishman, whose left hand was so shattered that he could not hold his gun, threw stones until he was exhausted, and came back swearing that while old Pat was there the boys could whip all the damned Yankees they could bring against them. The Second Tennessee also was supporting this batters, and for infernal stubborn fighting it has never been surpassed. One more assault at 4 P. M., and Sherman's corps received a terrific punishment that made them turn and fly dow the hill, and soon they were lost to view in the stinking murky clouds of war. Our forces pursued them rapidly, and the last account we had from the foe was that they had c