July 18th.
Our colors float
from the walls of Jackson, but Johnson is not bagged; there was a hole through
which he escaped.
Twice the Rebels
charged us, and were sent back quicker than they came. Their loss in these two
charges was three hundred men, in killed.
SOURCE: David Lane,
A Soldier's Diary: The Story of a Volunteer, 1862-1865, p. 68
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