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and Salute their flag when taken
down. Hays and Walker was very
much chagrined and the men
almost savage about it to think
after our division had taken all of
their out work west of the city and
fought driving the enemy back into the circle
of a few squares of the City and nearly
surrounded by our troops so that their only
chance of retreat was cut off and then
to let them have almost their own terms
of was too bad! An unconditional surrender
would have satisfied the men and even
if the enemy had persisted in fighting
we could have silenced him in one
or two hours and made him surrender
at discretion for we had our heavy
Mortars planted within range and 1 or
2 howitzers on the housetops The artillery
in the Streets our men on the house tops
the enemy being within a few
squares. So we could not have failed to
make great havoc among them and
but comparatively little danger on
our part.
Genl Worth our commanding General is liked
by all of the Vollunteers he seemed to
avoid any unnicessary
loss of life yet at the same time to use