Civil War Day-by-Day
    

“…a shell bursting right under the nose of the general’s horse.”–Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills.

June 18, 1864.

It rained steadily until 4 p.m. and had hardly ceased a minute when our guns opened and the skirmish lines joined issue. General Harrow and Colonel Wright rode out to the left some 200 yards from the regiment and narrowly escaped a trip over the river, a shell bursting right under the nose of the general’s horse.

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