Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills, (8th Illinois Infantry)
    

“…a shell bursting right under the nose of the general’s horse.”–Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills.

June 18, 1864.

It rained steadily until 4 p.m. and had hardly ceased a minute when our guns opened and the skirmish lines joined issue. General Harrow and Colonel Wright rode out to the left some 200 yards from the regiment and narrowly escaped a trip over the river, a shell bursting right under the nose of the general’s horse.

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