. 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 . av-alry before they had crossed the first field. They gave them a volley andran to the next woods, where James Donaldson, who carried the State colors,stripped them from the staff, took off his shirt, wrapped the flag round hisbody, and replaced the garment. The United States flag was torn to pieces,each man taking a piece, and I have mj share now as a relic. I also have a 564 THE STORY OF fragment of the 2(>th North Carolina, which I
. 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 . av-alry before they had crossed the first field. They gave them a volley andran to the next woods, where James Donaldson, who carried the State colors,stripped them from the staff, took off his shirt, wrapped the flag round hisbody, and replaced the garment. The United States flag was torn to pieces,each man taking a piece, and I have mj share now as a relic. I also have a 564 THE STORY OF fragment of the 2(>th North Carolina, which I tore off m Coh)nel Hardeesoffice at the War Department, when 1 turned over the flag to Secretary Stan-ton and General Townsend. in comjDany with Daniel J. Murphy, li)th Massa-chusetts, who captured the flag of the 47th North Carolina in the sameengagement. My regiment and the SDth New York, after wandering in the wilds ofVirginia for two days, returned to camp by the aid of an old negro, whopiloted them through the Confederate lines, and I was then granted a fur-lough of fifteen days to go to Washington with the captured flag. ^>^ .y^cj > y^ ■. Distributing the Flag. The night I started Colonel LaPointe handed me a warrant as 1st sergeantof Company C, and recommended me for promotion as 1st lieutenant, to Gov-ernor Blair of Michigan, which commission I received shortly after my returnto the front. I was in all the battles in which my regiment participatedexcept the first Fredericksburg, I being then in the hospital with a wound inthe left thigh, received at Antietam, September 17, 1862, and I was absentfrom the third days fight at Gettysburg because of a wound in the left wristreceived on the 2ud of July. AMERICAN HEROISM. 565 CHAPTER LXII. The Story of a Skirmish —Captain AV. ,, U. S. A.—The Pursuit of McCauslands Raiders — A Midnight Meeting — The Raid Upon the Raiders — The Adventure of Captain Kerr — Standishs Bluff at Strawberry Plains — Gener
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