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John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, September, 1863. (search)
Confederate boy, who should have been at home with his mother, and whose leg had been fearfully torn by a minnie ball, hailed me as I was galloping by early in the day. He was bleeding to death, and crying bitterly. I gave him my handkerchief, and shouted back to him, as I hurried on, Bind up the leg tight! The adjutant of the rebel General Adams called to me as I passed him. He wanted help, but I could not help him-could not even help our own poor boys who lay bleeding near him. Sammy Snyder lay on the field wounded; as I handed him my canteen he said, General, I did my duty. I know that, Sammy; I never doubted that you would do your duty. The most painful recollection to one who has gone through a battle, is that of the friends lying wounded and dying and who needed help so much when you were utterly powerless to aid them. Between ten and eleven o'clock, at night, I reached Rossville, and found one of my regiments, the Fortysecond Indiana, on picket one mile south of