. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . top of Kennesaw moun-tain, and the guns of the enemy on that mountainanswered shot for shot. Certainly no one ever saw aprettier sight than that. The fuse shells fired at us fromthe mountain top couldbe seen, describing a beau-tiful curve through theair, and coming at uswith a fearful noise likesome great ball of tire,and bursting over ourheads. Picket duty there wasmore than had to be relievedafter dark, for a manwould have had a poorchanc
. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . top of Kennesaw moun-tain, and the guns of the enemy on that mountainanswered shot for shot. Certainly no one ever saw aprettier sight than that. The fuse shells fired at us fromthe mountain top couldbe seen, describing a beau-tiful curve through theair, and coming at uswith a fearful noise likesome great ball of tire,and bursting over ourheads. Picket duty there wasmore than had to be relievedafter dark, for a manwould have had a poorchance of escaping deathto go in front of ourworks in daytime. Butonce in the hole in the ground which the pickets haddug there was comparative safety. All night long thepickets kept up the tiring. Nothing of any great mo-ment occurred till the 27th, when Sherman made hisfoolhardy assault on Kennesaw, and lost over 3,000 Johnson estimates the loss at not less than 6, those good men were killed or wounded for private in that great army knew that that assaultwould prove a disastrous failure. That mad attempt. Augustus E. Spencer, Co. F, died atTullahoma. Aug. 8th. 1H63. K>1 HISTORY OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH made many a widow, and caused many mothers heartsto ache for dear sons sacrificed to no purpose. At our rear on Tater hill was an open tieldthrough which a small stream ran. and at which we gotwater. At the side of this open field beyond us was awoods. A battery of parrot guns was placed on this andtrained on Kennesaw. A straight line from these gunsto the top of Kennesaw would have struck our in tiring at the top of Kennesaw it was to the distance, to give the guns sufficient eleva-tion to shoot several feet above us in order to hit the topof Kennesaw; and, strange to say, not one of the manyshot and shell which that battery sent screaming overour heads exploded before it got to us. But who butthose who heard the shot and shell
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