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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