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.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an
Illinois Soldier, p. 263
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