... six or seven hundred yards distant, which struck him in the chest, passing from left to right. Since the calamitous fall of General Albert Sidney Johnston at Shiloh and of General T. J. Jackson at Chancellorsville , the country sustained no heavier blow than in the death of General Polk. On June 18th, heavy rains having swollen Nose's Creek on the left of our position so that it became impassable, the Fede...