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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.4 (search)
the rear. As I was borne back, Attaway called out for them to hasten with me out of danger, as bullets and shells and solid shot were falling thick and fast around us. His conduct was that of a true, magnanimous friend and generous soldier. Ward and Chappell carried me as gently and quickly as possible towards some ambulances in the rear. When we reached them we were told they belonged to the Louisiana brigade, and I was refused admittance into one. At this time the gigantic and brave Colonel Peck, who had been slightly wounded and retired from the field, rode up, and ascertaining the status of affairs, ordered the men to take him up tenderly and put him in an ambulance, adding, he is a wounded brother soldier, and must be cared for. I thanked the Colonel, but he, in his bluff, soldierly way, interrupted me, and said he had done nothing but what I would have done for him. Bidding a last farewell to my faithful men, Chappell and Ward were both afterwards killed at Petersburg, V