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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 24 (search)
plunging shell and canister, is fighting his way across the valley with the object of assaulting the enemy's works. As the line left the slope on the perilous charge, Captain Irvine McDowell, of the Fifteenth Kentucky, than whom, for bravery and exemplary qualities of heart, no man in the division was more highly esteemed, dropped from the line a bloody corpse. Here, too, in this charge, memorable ever as connected with that bloody assault of Judah and Turchin, fell Captain Fotrel and Lieutenant Higby, the latter of the Thirty-third Ohio. Johnson, unable to scale the hill, retires, and the enemy, pouring over his works, form in line to charge him. Facing about the thrilling forward rings again along the line. and Johnson's men have again scattered, as the wind scatters the straws before it, the presumptuous graycoats that thought to follow him. Let us return again to the assailants under Judah and Turchin. Still persistently the column clings to the slope, and seems determine