. The story of Company A, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Mass. Vols. in the the War of the Rebellion [electronic resource] . and begrimed with powder and dirt. Many, per- „ haps most, of the Rebels, were shot in the head. We Joerne. >? noticed a dead Rebel soldier, seated on a log, hisrifle beside him, and his back supported against atree. He had been shot in the act of eating a pieceof bread ; the mouthful bitten off remained betweenhis teeth, while the right hand still holding the loafwas raised to his lips. Death had come like a flash,and his limbs were rigid in an instant. This was avery singul
. The story of Company A, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Mass. Vols. in the the War of the Rebellion [electronic resource] . and begrimed with powder and dirt. Many, per- „ haps most, of the Rebels, were shot in the head. We Joerne. >? noticed a dead Rebel soldier, seated on a log, hisrifle beside him, and his back supported against atree. He had been shot in the act of eating a pieceof bread ; the mouthful bitten off remained betweenhis teeth, while the right hand still holding the loafwas raised to his lips. Death had come like a flash,and his limbs were rigid in an instant. This was avery singular case. The enemy were now in full retreat towards New Berne, a portion of one regiment marching off in etieatoj Q(j or(\er> wjth colors flying; but the road, as was the enemy. Q ° the case at Roanoke, was strewn with guns andequipments thrown away in the hasty flight. Ourregiment formed soon after, and Company A wassent to skirmish through the woods towards therailroad, which we did, capturing many prisoners,then following the railroad towards New Berne,where were crowds of Rebels flying to the 1862. 25th Rcgt., Mass. J o/s. 111 On either side were seen many of the enemy makingsigns which indicated their desire to surrender. Gen. Foster on horseback rode along with Com-pany A as we pushed on towards the town. Wesoon noticed a huge column of black smoke risinghigh over New Berne, and saw at once that theRebels had set the city on fire—a Moscow on asmall scale ! We soon reached the Trent River,and found the railroad bridge, some fifteen hundredfeet long, in flames and rapidly going to stopped but a short time on the banks of theTrent, and then crossed over in small steamers and \enetook possession of the town. The gunboats all this had been fighting their way up the river, reach-ing the town before the troops, and were assistingin putting out the fires. So ended the Battle of New Berne, with a loss tothe Twenty-fifth Regiment of twenty-s
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