Siege life can be
made monotonous or otherwise, as you wish. A visit to the outworks is always
interesting, and to see the devices the men use in trying to get a Reb to put
his head above their works, is very amusing. Holding their caps on the end of
their guns or fixing a coat so that the arm can be seen, and the Reb, thinking
it is a Yank, blazes away at him while our boys go for him.
SOURCE: Joseph
Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph
Stockton, p. 17
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