. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . r of bullets. Fortunately, I contracted no disease while in the army, neithei- was I atany time badly wounded. As a matter of fact, I was too skinny to sto]i ;i Aroiiirald H. Rowand. .Ir. AMEitlCAN HEROISM. 427 bullet. I had holes liored through my hat, and was shot through my clothesseveral times; had eight horses killed under me during service in action, andescaped with a liadly bruised knee, received by the falling of a horse whichwas
. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . r of bullets. Fortunately, I contracted no disease while in the army, neithei- was I atany time badly wounded. As a matter of fact, I was too skinny to sto]i ;i Aroiiirald H. Rowand. .Ir. AMEitlCAN HEROISM. 427 bullet. I had holes liored through my hat, and was shot through my clothesseveral times; had eight horses killed under me during service in action, andescaped with a liadly bruised knee, received by the falling of a horse whichwas shot. I am one of the thankful fellows. I send you extracts from two letters my parents received from me,relative to the capture of Harry Gilmor. and the trip from .Sheridan to Grant. •• We arrived at Moorefield on Sunday morning, Februarv 5, 1865. and, leaving the tovrnj^urrounded by a strong picket, we struck the South Fork River road, I in advance withfive scouts. Two miles from town we came in sightof two fine large houses — the Williams and Ran-dolphs— where Major Gilmor was supposed to coming in sight of them we started on a gallop. -4^ -KowAND Catching the Drifting Boat. for Randolphs house, when an order came from Major Young to go to Williams across the fields we surrounded Williams house and captured one of Rossers Young went on to Randolphs and there caught Harry in bed. He was a littleastonished, but took things coolly. You may be sure we gave him no chance to is now under strong guard in our quarters. We rode one hundred and forty-five miles in thirty-six hours, and walked ten came north of Richmond, and of course we came a roundabout, or rather a zigzag times we were within ten miles of Richmond, talked to some fifty Rebels, and gainedvaluable information. We had quite a confab with four of General Lees scouts, we passing 428 THE STORY OF ourselves off for General Rossers scouts, and being dresse
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