. Story of the service of Company E [electronic resource]: and the Twelfth Wisconsin Regiment, Veteran Volunteer Infantry, in the War of the Rebellion : beginning with September 7th, 1861, and ending with July 21st, 1865 . ,cowardly poltroons, but that is about what we boys used tothink of them; and the country voted just as we thought. Darrow tells a little story connected with our stay atSmyrna that does great credit to our surgeon, Dr. E. , now of Hartford, Wisconsin. I had a very sore throat but was detailed to go on picket;it was a cold, rainy day. That night I came in cold and we
. Story of the service of Company E [electronic resource]: and the Twelfth Wisconsin Regiment, Veteran Volunteer Infantry, in the War of the Rebellion : beginning with September 7th, 1861, and ending with July 21st, 1865 . ,cowardly poltroons, but that is about what we boys used tothink of them; and the country voted just as we thought. Darrow tells a little story connected with our stay atSmyrna that does great credit to our surgeon, Dr. E. , now of Hartford, Wisconsin. I had a very sore throat but was detailed to go on picket;it was a cold, rainy day. That night I came in cold and was taken with choking so that I could not breathe. Ifelt as if my soldiering was about done. Dan Gillispie ranto Dr. Rogers tent and told him about my sickness. Thedoctor told Daniel to bring me up to his tent. I was soon. DR. E. M. ROGERS, REGIMENTAL SURGEON. 351 hustled over there—carried, I think,—but when I got there Icould breathe all right. Rogers wanted to know what thatman was sent out on picket for, and he was told that it wasbecause he would not excuse me. He said Kinney ought notto have allowed me to go, for all that. • He then had my clothes taken off, and ordered me put tobed in his tent. In the morning I found out that the doc-tor had sat up all night, having had me put into his own he told me that if I would rather go back to thehospital he would send me there; but, if I preferred to go onwith the regiment, he would let me ride a day or two in anambulance. He said I had the quinsy, but would be all rightsoon; that it was the breaking and discharge in my throatthat had so strangled me when I was brought to him. I told him I would go with the boys, and did so,—yet Icame prettv near missing The March to the Sea. Here is another little incident connected with our stay a
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