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Thanks amigo but don't cut no corners for me. I would sure love to find what he did. He was usually detailed as a blacksmith or teamster but his roll card gives the info on the location of his wounding. I suspect, and this is mostly a gut feeling that he was shot in what is now known as the "Mississippi Half Acre". Check out this excerpt from No Better Place to Die by Peter Cozzens, University of Illinois Press...

The majority of Chalmers's brigade swung south of the Cowan farm and into the rifle sights of the Second Kentucky and the Thirty-first Indiana. A few well aimed volleys sent the Mississipians reeling over the ridge and out of sight. Almost immediately the Stars and Bars reappearred above the ridge and Chalmers led his men through the cotton and winter wheat to within fifty yards of the Federals. The Confederates held on longer this time and paid the price. For thirty minutes they stood in the open, exchanging volleys with the six hundred men of Cruft's front line. The Rebels fell in windrows. The ground in front of the thirty-first Indiana was so heavily blanketed in dead and wounded that it was later labeled the "Mississippi Half Acre".

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