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Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., Part I. (search)
age, he seized the off-leader by the bridle, turning them back to a front position. While doing this, he distinctly heard the minie-balls crashing through the bones of the horses. They did not fall at once, however, and he had just gotten them to a front position, when a forcible blow upon the right shoulder, made by the enemy's color-bearer with the point of his staff, showed him that they were upon him. There was no time to say good-morning, so he beat a hasty retreat around his limber, Sauve que peut. He had scarcely commenced to run when he felt a heavy blow about the middle of his back. His thought was, Can that color-bearer have repeated his blow, or am I struck by a ball, which has deadened the sense of feeling? There being no flow of blood, however, he concluded he was not much hurt. After a run of forty yards he came to the dry bed of a stream between two hills. Here he paused to reconnoitre. The morning fog and the smoke of battle obscured the view, except close to