. 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 . the oppositeside. Captain Kerr was at once across and closely followed by my early morning light was not yet clear enough to distinguish individualsabove a hundred yards and Captain Kerr challenged l)y the first troops hemet answered Gilmors battalion, but as that particular force happened to AMERICAN HEROISM. 567 h i m in thewith him butcated himselfbearer of the be the challenging party, a hot hre was opened on Kerrs company
. 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 . the oppositeside. Captain Kerr was at once across and closely followed by my early morning light was not yet clear enough to distinguish individualsabove a hundred yards and Captain Kerr challenged l)y the first troops hemet answered Gilmors battalion, but as that particular force happened to AMERICAN HEROISM. 567 h i m in thewith him butcated himselfbearer of the be the challenging party, a hot hre was opened on Kerrs company as itcharged, and a bullet struck Captain Kerrs face to the right of his nose andcame out of the right side of his neck below the ear; another bullet wounded thigh and his horse was killed and fellhis men went on. The captain extri-from the fallen horse, ran to the color-Sth Virginia Confederate regiment,which was striving to get to horse,struck down the man, took his colorsand horse, mounted and rejoined hiscompany through the flying fragmentsof the enemy. The sun was just upwhen it was all over, with over a hun-dred and fifty of the enemy killed and. Getting wounded, including Colonel Peters of the 8th Virginia, three colors and their battery captured and nearly five hundredofficers and men prisoners with nearly a thousand horses and more of smallarms captured. The enemy was dispersed to the mountains, and GeneralEarly in his memoirs says he had no cavalry of that division loss was only thirty-six officers and men killed. Captain Kerrs only dis-tress after the action seemed to be that he had not caught McCausland. STANDISHS BLUFF AT STRAWBERRY PLAINS. General L. S. Trowbridge. During the summer of 1864 the 10th Michigan Cavalry was stationed atStrawberry Plains in East Tennessee. In August I was ordered to reportwith my regiment to General Gillem, and with all the men fit for active dutyin the regiment, I had gone up the country toward Virginia. There were 568 TH
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