...ing in the morning sun, and announced their readiness by discharging at occasional intervals a single piece of artillery with such accuracy that the first shot struck the head of my company wounding Privates M. S. Leopard , E. J. Hudson and W. B. Lesley; another, fired on our right, cut the flag staff of the Twenty-ninth regiment in twain. By the time the Tenth got in position, Captain Watt L. Strickland, of the br...