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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 87 (search)
How Major Tanner fell.--The Brown County (Ind.) Union, contains a letter from Missouri, dated Sept. 21st, in which the writer, an eye-witness, gives the following account of the rencontre in which the gallant Major Gordon Tanner received the wounds which resulted in his death:
On the 18th inst., under command of Lieut.-Col. Hendricks, our regiment proceeded by steamer, in company with the Eighteenth Indiana and Twenty-sixth Indiana, from Jefferson City, up the river, and on the 19th reached a point about five miles below Glasgow, where it was reported the secessionists were collected in force.
It was night when we reached the point referred to — a bright, moonlight night — when two or three companies from the Eighteenth and three companies, including ours from the Twenty-second, were ordered, under command of Major Tanner, to proceed by land through a corn-field and the woods to the town to take it by surprise.
We proceeded about a quarter of a mile through a corn-field, and