3 [P.M.] No movement yet. Ate rice
and pig for dinner. Our guns on left bank are now throwing shell over our heads
into enemies entrenchments in front of us. We hear their hurtling rush,
quivering thro' the air & the air over us is filled
with shells & shot. one of ours too low struck a house in our
st. A shell fr. Enemy struck among the 15th Conn. who had not
crossed & wounded 3 men cooking coffee. They were brot over. I
saw them. One had died. Visited a citizen in hospital -- he had been in
cellar all thro bombardment and thinking it over went to bed struck
by shell. he wont recover it is thot. I talked & prayed with him.
Col. Dutton of 21 Conn. is quartered in our house.
Colonel Arthur H. Dutton
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