We started this morning at daylight and marched five miles
to General McPherson's headquarters at the center of the army. Here we lay
until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when we marched back to our old place on the
extreme left. The rebels again commenced to shell us, but the shells went over
our heads. The Eleventh Iowa went on picket. Our men are shelling the rebels
from all sides, and they are falling back behind their fortifications. When
passing the headquarters of the Seventeenth Army Corps today, I saw a most
dreadful sight at the field hospital; there was a pile, all that a six-mule team
could haul, of legs and arms thrown from the amputating tables in a shed
nearby, where the wounded were being cared for.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 117
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