August 3, 1863. D.B. Cornell to Ezra Cornell including a meticulous account of his participation in the Battle of Vicksburg and his near fatal injury suffered in the assault: "I received my wound on the 19th of May at the first charge on the works in the rear of Vicksburg, our Brigade charged on what was called Fort Hill. ?my position was colour bearer and I had to go down a small ravine which was in the hillside?I was struck directly under and about 3/4 of an inch from my left eye --I did not fall, nor did the colours go down?I then went and lay down behind a fallen tree expecting to bleed to death?the ball had apparently struck the limb of a tree and was comeing diagonaly down as it passed through my hat rim over my left temple, it passed through the roof of my mouth cutting an ugly gash on the inside of my right cheek and lodged at the angle of my jaw shattering it severely." Topics: agriculture; Civil War; Cornell Public Library; New York State Agricultural Rooms; telegraph industry; Sodus Canal Personal names: Pew, W.P.; Cornell, D.B.; Wood, O.S.; Chace, Miller; Chester, E.W. Geography: Kansas; Vicksburg, MS; Albany, N.Y.