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The following letters from Judge Critcher and Major Kelly show how largely the correspondent drew upon his imagination in his account of this comparatively insignificant affair. But this romancing is a fair sample of the style in which many of the so-called "histories" of the day are manufactured.

The letters of Judge Critcher and Major Kelly were written after seeing the above account of "one of the bravest achievements on record."