. 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 . rave corjioral went l)acl< to find that .Mdrich waswoundeil. AMERICAN HERUISM. 415 To remain loiioer in the rifle pit would be almost eeitain death, and Boss resolved tomake an attempt to i;et over the breastwork, althoujjh many had been killed in trying thesame thinj^. • To leave his coninanion behind did not enter Bosss mind, and yt^t the poor fellow wasso weak from loss of blood that he could not have walked a dozen paces. To cross
. 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 . rave corjioral went l)acl< to find that .Mdrich waswoundeil. AMERICAN HERUISM. 415 To remain loiioer in the rifle pit would be almost eeitain death, and Boss resolved tomake an attempt to i;et over the breastwork, althoujjh many had been killed in trying thesame thinj^. • To leave his coninanion behind did not enter Bosss mind, and yt^t the poor fellow wasso weak from loss of blood that he could not have walked a dozen paces. To cross in front of the three Confederate lines of battle unencumbered would havebeen a most desperate thini^ to do. and vet Boss quietly proposed to take Aldrich on hisback and stao-o-er throupfh the deadly shower of missiles. It seems little short of a miracle that a man so loaded down, and forced, because ofhis burden, to walk upria;ht. could have passed across the intervening S])ace alive; but it wasdone, and the hero gives his account of the perilous journey in these few wi)rds: •• • I took him on my back, and carried him from the held in Passis(j the (axtken. Once inside the Federal lines Boss determined to make an effort to save the woundedlieutenant, or at least bring him where he could receive medical attention, and to this endasked General Stannards permission to try the daring scheme. This was readily granted, and then the corporal set about making his jireparations. Tobring the dying oflBcer over the breastwork could not be done with any assurance of suc-cess, and Boss enlisted several comrades in the work. pro])osing that while he and one otherventured out. several inside should tniniel through the works in order to facilitate the return. William 1). Blanchard was selected to accompany the corporal, and while the othersbegan excavating the tunnel these two brave men crawled over the works under a most mur-derous fire from the enemy, who at once understood
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