... volunteered at the commencement of the war, and his energy, patriotism, and general good conduct, as well as his determined bravery in all the recent engagements, have excited the admiration of all. Private Christian , in the bayonet charge of the thirtieth, was assailed by no less than four of the enemy at the same instant. He succeeded in killing three of them with his own hands, though wounded in several plac...