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Acting as chief of artillery for the 1st Division of the 4th Army Corps, Captain Peter Simonson was entrenching a 4-gun battery here on June 16, 1864, when he was killed by a Confederate bullet. The shot may have come from a sharpshooter using an English-made Whitworth rifle with a scope, which fired a six-sided bullet that could kill a target one-half mile away. Because the two armies were only a few hundred feet apart at this point, he also could have been killed by an ordinary Confederate rifleman.
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Marietta, Georgia · United States
