Started out at eight
A.M. Crossed the river on a pontoon-bridge, marched through the city, and went
into battery six hundred yards from the enemy. There was a line of battle in
every street in the city, which were strewn with broken furniture, together
with a number of dead rebels.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the Twenty-second
Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters and the Third Light
Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 270
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