. 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 . elystopped l)y an Alabama infantrybrigade on the road, and Haskellwas taken to the residence of , the father of BishopDudley. Here he lay for manyweeks between life and death,and when, finally, recovery wasassured and convalescence began,he was as one born into a newworld. Language came back byslow degrees, and names of per-sons, places and things all had tobe learned anew\ The former incidents of his life were all lost and there
. 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 . elystopped l)y an Alabama infantrybrigade on the road, and Haskellwas taken to the residence of , the father of BishopDudley. Here he lay for manyweeks between life and death,and when, finally, recovery wasassured and convalescence began,he was as one born into a newworld. Language came back byslow degrees, and names of per-sons, places and things all had tobe learned anew\ The former incidents of his life were all lost and therecollection of these was only gradually recovered during some years. Whenreference was made to such past events during this time he would frequentlysay. I havnt thouglit of that since T was killed. Let me think. Afteronce recalling an event, and registering it. as it were, in the new consciousness,it was always afterwards remembered. A day or so after the fight General Kautz sent a flag of truce to requestthe body of a major who had been killed, and be also sent in by the flagColonel Haskells watch and all the personal lielongings taken from him except. The End of the Story. AMERICAN HEROISM. 411 the gold ring. After the war Colonel Haskell wrote to General Kautz, as been told, endeavoring to trace his friend Pat, and he also inquiredif the general could put him in the way of recovering the ring. But of thisGeneral Kautz had known nothing, and was unable to give any information,so it was given up for lost. Twelve years afterward, however, in 1876, ColonelHaskell was the chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee in theTilden-Hayes campaign, in which the carpet-bag government of SouthCarolina was overthrown, and his name was prominent in the daily papersfor several months. On the 3rd of February, 1877, the Charleston Ncirs andCourier published a letter from a Mr. Ditchfield of Chester County, Pennsyl-vania, stating that James G. Keech, formerly color-sergeant of t
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