A Fatal Shell

On the night of the battle of Pittsburg, a rebel Georgia regiment drew up in line near the river to make a terrible charge on our ranks. Unluckily for them one of our gunboats got in range with the regiment and fired a large shell. The shell struck fairly on the end of the line and ploughed its way through the living wall until it came to the centre, where it exploded, making the most awful havoc and slaughter. The rebels broke into a precipitate flight.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 2