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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Christopher Smalley and four NCOs would demolish the winding-house for this caisson .
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Each caisson weighed 240 tons with water in it, and could carry one barge or two narrow boats.
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It is an artilleryman, wounded by the explosion of a caisson ....
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The other two squads had further to go in attacking similar installations around the northern or inner caisson .
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When a caisson was exploded, yells of exultation were heard along the whole rebel lines....
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Wounded men... were clinging to caissons, to which were attached frightened and wounded horses....