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The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], Grant's campaign an acknowledged failure. (search)
batteries, recently planted, about nine hundred yards distant, passed very near them. The group then began to disperse in different directions. General Johnston and Lieut. Gen. Polk moved off a few paces together and separated — the former selecting a path lower down the hill, and Gen. Polk proceeding along the cone of the knoll. Gen. Johnston had scarcely parted from Gen. Polk before a second shell from the same battery struck the latter in the chest, and he fell without a groan. Col. Gale, of his staff, who deserved his fall, ran immediately back to the spot, but before he had reached it the great soul of his loved General had sped beyond the clouds. There was a slight tremor of the lower jaw, but the eyes were fixed and the pulses ceased. A three inch rifle ball or shell had taken effect in the left arm, above the elbow, crushing it and passing through the body, and also through the right arm, just below the shoulder joint, leaving it in the same multilated condition as