Thursday, March 14, 2013

On the morning of the taking of Fort Donelson . . .

. . . Gen. Johnson, while taking his coffee, narrowly escaped death.  A rifle ball skimmed off the bottom of his coffee cup, leaving the empty sides in the rebel’s hand.

– Published in The Cedar Valley Times, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862, p. 1

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