September 6, 1864.
Lay quiet all day. Some Rebel cavalry followed us up and
fired a few shots into our regiment's works from the old Rebel fort, but
Osterhaus swung his pickets around and gobbled 25 of them, and the rest
troubled us no more.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an
Illinois Soldier, p. 299
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