With Grant At Fort Donelson Shiloh And Vicksburg And An Appreciation of Genera
With Grant At Fort Donelson Shiloh And Vicksburg And An Appreciation of Genera
Wilbur Fisk Crummer
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The enemy charge on us, but we repel them at the west bank of the crater, and a hand-to-hand conflict rages for hours; hand grenades and * fa Ceo goc »3 C^ VICKSBURG 139 loaded shells are lighted and thrown over the parapet as you would play ball. These shells and hand grenades carry death, as many as a dozen men being killed and wounded at one ex- plosion. It seems to me, in looking back, a won- der that anyone in that hot place was left to tell the story. I have witnessed our men grab these s...hells, at the risk of their exploding, and fling them back. Many a brave hero laid down his life in that death hole, or, as we most appro- priately called it, ^'Fort Hell. '' The Chicago Tribune had its correspondent in the field and, in the issues of that paper on July 3 and 6, 1863, he speaks of the charge and fighting in the crater, saying: * * * ^^A wide em- brasure in the embankment was made into which the noble Lead Mine Regiment, led by Colonel Maltby, rushed in and at once planted our banner amid a terrific fire from the enemy.
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