Champion Hill Quote

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When the charge was ordered my position brought us directly in front of the battery, and the way canister flew was a caution to all sinners to say the strongest prayer they knew.
  • Captain Nicholas R. Ruckle, Company E, 11th Indiana Infantry, on the battle of Champion Hill. From an unidentified and undated clipping.
    J.L. Power Family Papers (1401.1f) Mississippi Department of Archives and History

The post-war photograph of Ruckle is from Indiana and Indianans Volume 5 By Jacob Piatt Dunn, General William Harrison Kemper; The American historical society, 1919

Nicholas R. Ruckle.webp
 

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