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Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., chapter 4 (search)
uted by Fitz-Hugh Lee. Thomas Hilton, of Uniontown, Alabama, volunteered in the Witherspoon Guards, Twenty-first Alabama Regiment, at the tender age of fourteen. He was too small to carry a musket, and was detailed as a drummer boy. At the battle of Shiloh he threw away his drum and so importuned his captain for a gun that it was given him. Shortly after, while in the thick of the fight, he was shot through the face, the ball entering one side and passing out at the other. Rev. N. I. Witherspoon (chaplain of the regiment) found him lying upon the ground, bleeding to death as he then supposed, and knelt beside him to pray. To his surprise the boy looked up, the fire in his eyes unquenched, and gasped out while the blood gushed afresh at every word,— Yes—chaplain—I'm—badly hurt—but—I'm—not— whipped. Thomas Hilton still lives in Uniontown, Alabama, respected by all who know him. His fellow-citizens regard the ugly scar which still appears upon his face with prid