Vulgar words in History of Kershaw's Brigade (Page 1)
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The sun poured down its blistering rays with intense fierceness upon the already fatigued and fagged soldiers, while the dust along the pikes, that wound over and around the numerous hills, was almost stifling.
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Jackson's, D.H. Hill's, and McLaw's troops, jaded and fagged by the forced marches in the morning, their ranks woefully thinned by the day's continuous fighting, their ammunition sadly exhausted, could do no more than hold their ground for the remainder of the day.
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Kershaw was clinging to his enemy like grim death from eleven o'clock until late in the evening--his men worn and fagged, hungry and almost dying of thirst, while the ammunition was being gradually exhausted and no relief in sight.
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He said afterwards he "would have turned and cut the rascal's throat, but he was afraid he was only 'possuming' and might brain him with the butt of his gun."