July, Wednesday 1.—Yanks have worked up with their outpost ditches, until they are within forty to one hundred yards almost all around our lines. Tried to blow some of our works, but did not pay them for their trouble. Water getting very low.
Robert M. Magill—Personal Reminiscences of a Confederate Soldier Boy.
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