. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . ch lay arms andlegs recently cut off; Init I did notmind that as much as I wouldnow. The surgeon found and re-moved a buckshot from my thigh ;the larger ball had cleared itself.]\Iy l)lue clothing was removed andtiicy put me into a cotton shirtand drawers furnished by the Commission, and thenlaid me on the floor again, withmy pants for a pillow. That din-ing room fl(»or must be of veryhard wood. It hurts me now when I think of it. Two days later I wastakt-n
. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . ch lay arms andlegs recently cut off; Init I did notmind that as much as I wouldnow. The surgeon found and re-moved a buckshot from my thigh ;the larger ball had cleared itself.]\Iy l)lue clothing was removed andtiicy put me into a cotton shirtand drawers furnished by the Commission, and thenlaid me on the floor again, withmy pants for a pillow. That din-ing room fl(»or must be of veryhard wood. It hurts me now when I think of it. Two days later I wastakt-n across the l)ridge to a hospital where things were more few days later I startid north, passing from one hospital on to the nextafter a short stay in each, landing at Camp Dennison January 1st, the coldestday I have yet experienced. About the middle of May had so far recoveredthat I V)egan to look for an order to return to the front, but General OrderNo. 21 from the Adjutant General transferredlme to Company H, 19tli Reg-iment Veteran Reserve Cori>s, then at Hill , Wasliington,D. Hknrv G. ,, F (1805) CIUCKAMAUCA— /.V( V/)/-:.V/S. ^3i Ilaviiiu: iii iMcaiiH of ivsistinjjT I went with utlins imw aid to tin- newLuiimiaiKi ami then scut an applifatiun tn the War ncpartincnt for n--traiisfcr. Special Onh-r No. 3.», .luiic 14. grants tlio I liaM to coniclicrc ainl waif until a sipiail of riuht nninhcr accinnnlatcs, when we will heforwanleil. Ymi iii;iy ex|>ect to see nie liefupe loiii:, not wagon niianl, narrowly iscai0(lcapture on Sunday. Tliey were sent tVom Cliattanoooa withrations lor tlic l:i-)tli. reacliinu ns at sunrise, and lia\iniiunloaded there was nothino; to jirevent their immediateIetiirn. hut tile mules needed rest, theeommand went forward to relieve Ijuttle opened, ami the hoys thoiiolitthey ought to wait lor a load ot woundedan
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