. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . ments andcapturing nearly all the wounded; I had escaped by a hairbreadth, for had I fallen into the enemys hands I shouldsurely have never recovered. By another special Providence or stroke of good for-tune, I fell into the hands of the ambulance corps of ourown regiment, who were waiting to care for the woundedwhen the l)attle was over. Sergeant Jacknian, a Nashua boy, and a per-sonal friend, wasin charge of thecorps. He imme-diately came tomy aid, and fromhis canteen gaveme whisk) inlarge cjuantity, somuch of it that Ibecame oblivious
. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . ments andcapturing nearly all the wounded; I had escaped by a hairbreadth, for had I fallen into the enemys hands I shouldsurely have never recovered. By another special Providence or stroke of good for-tune, I fell into the hands of the ambulance corps of ourown regiment, who were waiting to care for the woundedwhen the l)attle was over. Sergeant Jacknian, a Nashua boy, and a per-sonal friend, wasin charge of thecorps. He imme-diately came tomy aid, and fromhis canteen gaveme whisk) inlarge cjuantity, somuch of it that Ibecame obliviousto pain. The firstaml)ulance hadbeen brought placing mein it without wait-ing for more ofthe wounded theystarted back in thedirection of theJames River forthe field Lemuel N. Jackman had proved a faithfulsoldier in every position to which he had been had left the state as a private in the ranks of CampanyF; he had been promoted to Corporal and now a Sergeantand in the last few months of the war his promotion was 453. SERGT. LEMUEL N. JACKMAN. REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION rapid. He was commissioned as Lieutenant, and subse-quently as Adjutant of the Regiment. He proved to bean efficient officer, serving faithfully to the end of theWar. The tragedy and pathos of the War was a livingreality to thousands upon thousands of the widows andchildren, and the fathers and mothers too, of those whogave up their lives upon the field of battle. The agoniz-ing scenes enacted at home, repeated day after da}throughout the North, can not be told to this generationto bring home to them anything like its reality. In the 3rd Regiment were four young men whowent out from Nashua in Company F. They each left athome a young wife, who bade them God speed, patriot-ically sending them forth to fight the battles of theircoun-try. These four young men were among the best sol-diers of Company F. They followed the fortunes of theregiment through three years of
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