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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 138 (search)
f its regiments, the Twenty-fourth Illinois, was in this battle, however, and gloriously maintained its honor. The Twenty-eighth brigade supported Captain Harris's Nineteenth Indiana battery. A few of the men belonging to these brigades were killed and wounded by the fire from the rebel cannon, but generally the shot passed harmlessly over their heads. I was near one of the men who was killed at the time he was struck, and could not but regard it as a singular fatality. His name is----Robb — probably well known in Cincinnati, as he belonged to the Tenth Ohio, and was Colonel Lytle's orderly. He was not with his own regiment at the time of his death, but with the Third Ohio, and was lying amongst the other men upon the ground. While in this position a spherical shot struck him in the side, passed entirely through his body, and buried itself in the ground beyond. He died instantly, and almost without a gasp. Not a man of the regiment he was with, was, in this stage of t