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Excerpt from Burial, the Guns
At Appomattox, April 9, 1865, and yet a couple of days later the old Colonel's battery lay intrenched right ih. The mountain pass Where it had halted three days before. Two weeks previously it had been detailed With a light di vision sent to meet and repel a force Which it was understood was coming in by way of the southwest valley to strike Lee in the rear of his long line from Richmond to Petersburg. It had done its work. The mountain-pass had been seized and held, and the Federal force had not gotten by that road Within the blue rampart Which guarded on that side the heart of Vir ginia. This pass, Which was the key to the main line of passage over the mountains, had been assigned by the commander of the division.
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