...hands of Hoosiers, was an up-hill business. On Wilder's right the old Seventeenth had opened their horizontal shot-tower (as the boys call their Spencer rifles) upon five regiments of rebels under General Bates , who outflanked them and were closing on their rear, charging and yelling like the bottomless pit broke loose. Wilder immediately sent the Ninety-eighth Illinois, Colonel Funkhouser, to their relie...