. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . ank towards the house, heedless of the gallingrifle flre poured at him from the rebels within. Quickly he placed the groaning,wounded man upon his shoulders and hurried back with him, reaching the vessel insafety. The body of the dead soldier still lay close to the house, and in spite of theremonstrances of his c
. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . ank towards the house, heedless of the gallingrifle flre poured at him from the rebels within. Quickly he placed the groaning,wounded man upon his shoulders and hurried back with him, reaching the vessel insafety. The body of the dead soldier still lay close to the house, and in spite of theremonstrances of his comrades Seward made a second trip toward it to secure thebody before it should fall into the hands of the enemy. With a dash he reached theside of his fallen comrade, bullets whistling close to his ears, and some passingthrough his clothing. Throwing the prostrate form over his shoulder he started backfor the ship, which he again reached in safety. His action was so deliberate in theface of the heavy fire from the enemy that the officers and men were nonplused athis behavior, and when he had both the wounded and the dead man in a placeof safety his comrades sent up a cheer that made him forget momentarily the dangerhe had just passed through. — 50 — SURPRISED BY THE REBELS. JAMES MILLER, Quartermaster U. S. S. ir. Denmark, September, 1836. A REMARKABLE engagement took place on the Stone^^ River, near Charleston, S. C, on Christmas day,1863. While the army, under General Gillmore, wascompleting its preparations for the attack on the forts,Admiral Dahlgren had a small squadron, comprisingthe Pawnee. Commander Balch, the Marblehead, Lieu-tenant-Commander Meade, and the mortar schoonerWilliams, stationed in the Stono River on picket three vessels kept in communication with an out-post of al>out 100 men of General SchimmelpfennigsBrigade, thus forming, so to speak, the left wing of thebesieging land forces. On the 24th of Deceiiiber, the Marblehead
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