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PERSONAL NARRATIVE.16
To settle on the mode of attack was then to be determined on. Several plans were proposed in general council. The Plumb chief proposed to make the attack when the troops were engaged in raising block houses for the new fort, when the soldiers would be scattered; some hauling timber for pickets, and others chopping and getting out timber for the block houses and barracks, leaving only six men on guard. Had the Plumb chief's plan been adopted, and all their
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