June 27 — We got to rest last night. Everything was more quiet all night than common. Firing commenced at daylight again this morning. 8 o’clock a.m. — the mortars are dropping shells about us. They are throwing them about five miles. 7 o’clock p.m. We now start out to the trenches again. A young man by the name of Garghess belonging to the 3rd Tenn. Regt. was killed here in fifty yards of me this evening with a piece of a shell. Oh! Lord I pray for thy protection. W. R. Clack
