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One sharp report, one single ca
Another gun. One single shot. And then the long roar as of the whole vast rumbling earth begi
Slept, but did not know how long. Woke to the sound of the continuing guns. No difference. Looked out across the rock, smoke everywhere. Union guns firing, men moving among the guns, hunched, a bloody horse ru
He thought: must form the regiment, face the crest.
Enough ammunition. Send Tom to the rear. Poor old Kilrain. We’ll miss you. We’re right in the path. Would not have missed this for anything, not anything in the world. Will rest now. Dreamyly.
He put his face down. The shells fell all down the line, all over the crest, down in the road and back in the woods and on the hospital and in the artillery park. Chamberlain went to sleep.