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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
million stain; as it was, by far the greater portion of them found lodgment in the stolid clay. The first regiment which rushed in was the scarred emnant of the Forty fifth Illinois, whose members lie on a dozen illustrious fields, led by Colonel Maltby. Its loss was necessarily severe. It was seconded by the "Bloody Seventh" Missouri, who were soon recalled. Next went in the Twentieth Illinois, who kept up a gallant resistance for a half hour, when the Thirty first Illinois, under Lif the rough bank, when smash came a blast from a ten pounder right in their faces, sending the stick of timber right amongst them, singeing their hair and blackening them with the discharge, killing two or three outright. This blow struck Col. Maltby with stunning force. The rattle of musketry kept-up until nightfall. Our batteries on Lightburn and Giles Smith's front, as well as from Burbridge, kept firing on the rebels; but from the nearness of the combatants the missiles either did no