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Also they had
placed many of their sharpshooters in the houses. It was a strong
position, commanding the passage of the river, and they should have been
able to hold it against twice their number.
"Our men came, as you did, along that road off yonder; and then our
infantry advanced across the fields under cover of our artillery fire.
We were in the open and the French were above us here and behind
shelter; and so we lost many men.
"They had mined the bridge over the canal and also the last remaining
bridge across the river; but we came so fast that we took both bridges
before they could set off the mines.
"In twenty minutes we held the town and the last of their sharpshooters
in the houses had been dislodged or killed. Then, while our guns moved
over there to the left and shelled them on the flank, two companies of
Germans--five hundred men--charged up the steep road over which you have
just climbed and took this trench here in five minutes of close
fighting.
"The enemy lost many men here before they ran.


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