We will kill them all." [Loud and long continued applause.] I picketed the great embankments thrown up around our lines by the dynamite explosion - merely a lookout of a couple of boys to announce the enemy when he should appear again. Next, I sent an engineer and forty men to a point just beyond our lines on the south, to turn a mountain brook that was there, and bring it within our lines and under our command, arranging it in such a way that I could make instant use of it in an emergency.

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