Audiobook Dictation: “When morning came the firing opened…”

When morning came the firing opened, and for all that day the battle raged fiercely at the left and center left, we getting the worst of it, too.

天一亮，砲火便打響了，整整一天，左翼和中路偏左一帶戰鬥激烈，而且吃虧的還是我們。

The Rebels were charging works that they themselves had built when they held the town during Halleck's siege. General Haccelman and many other of our officers had fallen.

叛軍衝擊的正是他們當年在哈勒克圍城期間據守該城時親手修築的工事。哈塞爾曼將軍和我們的許多軍官都已陣亡。

Our own division, though fighting some, had lost but few men.

我們自己的師雖然也打了些仗，卻只損失了寥寥幾人。

That evening an order came for us--Hamilton's Division--to assault the enemy's left flank at midnight.

那天傍晚，我們——漢密爾頓師——接到命令，要在午夜突襲敵軍左翼。

Before the hour came, however, the move was decided to be too dangerous, and we changed our position to one nearer the forts.

然而還沒到時候，上頭便認定這一行動太過危險，我們於是轉移到離要塞更近的位置。

All the night we lay there under the brightest moonlight I ever saw.

那一整夜，我們就躺在那裡，頭頂是我生平所見最明亮的月光。

Under the same quiet moonlight, and only six hundred yards away from us, also lay the victorious Rebel army.

就在同樣寧靜的月光下，離我們僅六百碼之處，得勝的叛軍也正躺著歇息。

Yet it looked very bad for us.

然而局勢看上去對我們非常不利。

Every house in town was full of our wounded and our dead lay everywhere.

城裡每一戶人家都擠滿了我們的傷員，而我們的陣亡將士遍地都是。