Friday, May 21, 2010

Thursday [May] 21st [1863]

Enemy continues incessant
fire of artillery & musketry
on our lines -- we rarely
reply -- hoarding our am-
munition. several of our
guns dismounted -- our
casualties considerable.
Cols Ivy, Hall & Patton
wounded. In afternoon mortar boats and gunboats
open on the city -- fire
scattered all over town --
women & children pretty
generally "caved in". No
perceptible progress as yet
towards reduction. Nothing
from Genl Johnston

Colonels Edward Ivy and Isaac W. Patton of the 21st Louisiana ?
Colonel Winchester Hall of the 26th Louisiana?

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