Thank you, Lee; I have at least one Pennsylvannian's and one New Yorker's diary entries from the night fight at Wauhatchie, and I will try to transcribe them and send you such soon. The Penn.'s boy was wounded in the leg and survived, but was killed 7 months later near Atlanta. Tho' the casualties were low, the amphibious fight at Brown's Ferry and susequent night's fight at Wauhatchie saved Lincoln's administration; a failure there would have erased both Gettysburg & Vicksburg, destroyed the army of the Cumberland, and led to foriegn recognition, and freedom, for the Confederacy - whether that be good or bad (we'd probably have twice as many lame loosers to choose from as we've been left with for this election term, out of a country of 250 million). Thanks, Joe