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William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War, Chapter 23: summer of 1864. (search)
cently planted, about nine hundred yards distant, passed very near them. The group then began to disperse in different directions. General Johnston and Lieutenant-General Polk moved off a few paces together and separated — the former selecting a path lower down the hill, and General Polk proceeded along the cone of the knoll. General Johnston had scarcely parted from General Polk before a second shell from the same battery struck the latter in the chest, and he fell without a groan. Colonel Gale, of his staff, who observed 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 pulse had 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 mutilated condition