Thursday, January 16, 2025

Diary of Musician David Lane, July 18, 1863

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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