(1862) Shiloh April 7th 
Rained and drizzled nearly all night, and the gun boats kep up a fire at intervals, throwing shells over our heads - wounded and dying groaning - prevented us from sleeping much.  At early dawn our Div. took up the position of the extreme right of our army. At daylight the 9th Ind Batt. opened fire our Reg't and 8th Mo. supporting it the rebels soon gave back and we followed them up about half a mile when they opened out heavy on us with artillery, ours was soon brought in position and fired 200 shots to the gun, silincing 2 of the enemys batteries, when the rebel cavalry made a charge on one of our batteries, but our musketry literally cut them to pieces. 9 A.M. our Div. is doing some heavy skirmishing. The rebels are again forced to give back but the left & center are too far back for us to move up and so we have been laying here for 3 hours in a ravine, while shot & shells pass over us, terrible fighting on the left & center and sharp skirmishing on the right of our army.
