Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, July 5, 1864

Our men are still advancing. The Eleventh Iowa made a charge on the rebels' left, on Nick-a-Jack creek, and took one line of rifle pits. We lost a few in killed and wounded. William Cross of Company E was killed by a piece of shell from the rebels' batteries; he had returned from the hospital to his company only about two weeks before. I am still in the hospital and no better. It is quite sultry today.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 203

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