To-day a rebel gunboat steamed up from Columbus and fired a
few shots into Fort Holt. Our big gun below the camp of the Twenty-eighth
Illinois returned the fire with a vim, after which the rebel machine drifts
back to its own congenial clime, having accomplished nothing save a little
fright.
SOURCES: Daniel Leib Ambrose, History of the Seventh
Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 21
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