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
ranged with the regiment and fired a large shell. The shell stuck fairly on the end of the line
and ploughed its way through the living wall until it came to the centre, when
it exploded, making the most awful havoc and slaughter. The rebels broke into a precipitate flight. –
Nashville Union.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, May 14, 1862, p. 2
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