This morning, as the morning gun was fired from Fort
Prentiss, at Cairo, through some carelessness of the gunner, a solid shot was
fired which came across the Ohio river and over the Seventh's camp, performing
general havoc among the tree-tops. No damage done, save what was done in
scaring the men within its range. The ball is now on exhibition at Colonel
Babcock's tent as a war trophy.
SOURCES: Daniel Leib Ambrose, History of the Seventh Regiment
Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 16-7
