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PERSONAL NARRATIVE.31
They put their hands to their mouths with an exclamation that that shot would have killed half of them. Had the Indians taken any other mode of attack they must have succeeded. Had they waited until night they could easily have set fire to the barracks and that would have left nothing to prevent them from getting in. They had no block-houses. The new fort was unfinished, the block-houses only half up and the picket work only just begun and one month after the company of men would have defied all the Indians in the country.
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