. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . charge he perhaps could get per-mission. The doctor rushed up and down through thewoods trving to find the lieutenant, but failed to do so;returning he found the ambulance he had left, without adriver; jumping on the seat, he took the reins, started tothe front, and seizing the whip gave the horse a sharpcut, and over the road he flew, on to a field that was fullof stumps where he was obliged to go slowly, and look-ing back, the driver was coming on the run after overtaking the ambulance, he jumped m behmd,telling the doctor tha
. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . charge he perhaps could get per-mission. The doctor rushed up and down through thewoods trving to find the lieutenant, but failed to do so;returning he found the ambulance he had left, without adriver; jumping on the seat, he took the reins, started tothe front, and seizing the whip gave the horse a sharpcut, and over the road he flew, on to a field that was fullof stumps where he was obliged to go slowly, and look-ing back, the driver was coming on the run after overtaking the ambulance, he jumped m behmd,telling the doctor that he would take the rems, whichhe proceeded to do, and would have turned back, but thedoctor protested vehemently that they should go on andrescue the colonel, finally persuading Putnam to do so,assuring him that he would take all resp.^nsibdity and onthev moved over the field, narrowly escapmg an upsetby the stumps and stones: reaching the colonel at lengththey wheeled about. Two bullets had already passed 481 REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. through the canvas of the ambulance, and more were com-ing. They hastily placed the Colonel in the ambulanceand started for the rear, when they heard a voice crying,Hold on with that ambulance. Looking back, fourmen were coming with a wounded or dead officer. Theyhalted and waited their approach. It proved to be the body of GeneralBurnham, the bri-g a d e commander,who had been killedin the charge. Theyplaced the body ofthe general in theambulance with Col-onel Stevens, andback four miles theyrode side by side tothe James River,where they were puton board the steamerFortress M u n r o e,and the Colonel ta-ken to the Chesa-peake Hospital. Hospital StewardPrescotts soldierlyqualities and braveryunder fire Won for himpromotion; he wascommissioned Second Lieutenant in October, 1864, andlater promoted to First Lieutenant and much of the timein command of his company. Li the closing days of thewar, the 13th Regiment was immediately in
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