. Reminiscences of the Civil War . ngso fast they could not carry me any further, so I laid therefor three days before I was again taken up and carried tothe field hospital. ^ The ball hit me in the right shoulder, went underthe shoulder blade and come out of my back. It left apiece of my blouse and shirt in the wound, thus causingme a great deal of pain for two weeks before it was removed. While I lay on the battle-field I could not move orspeak. When they cleaned up the battle-field I heard asurgeon say,Here are three dead men. Dig a hole bigenough and put them when they picked me upt
. Reminiscences of the Civil War . ngso fast they could not carry me any further, so I laid therefor three days before I was again taken up and carried tothe field hospital. ^ The ball hit me in the right shoulder, went underthe shoulder blade and come out of my back. It left apiece of my blouse and shirt in the wound, thus causingme a great deal of pain for two weeks before it was removed. While I lay on the battle-field I could not move orspeak. When they cleaned up the battle-field I heard asurgeon say,Here are three dead men. Dig a hole bigenough and put them when they picked me upthey found me warm, so I was carried to the field hospital Father stayed with the regiment until July 30,1864when he was taken prisoner with a number of others, atthe Mine Explosion, in front of Petersburg, Virginia. Hewas kept a few days in Libby Prison and then sent toSalisbury, North Carolina. There he stayed five was near the close of the war, and as General Shermanwas marching through that part of the country it made. B. F. Whittemore (Father ufthe boy ot ihis story who servedin the Wiir with him.; Reminiscences of the Civil War, them very short of food. Consequently, they fed theprisoners on uncooked cornmeal, and not very often four days elapsed before they were fed again. When father was taken prisoner he weighed onehundred and eighty pounds, when he paroled he weighedonly nintey pounds. But in spite of all the hardships hereached home in safety and lived to be seventy-one yearsold. Then he answered the last Roll Call. He had madehis peace with God years before and he was just as readyto answer God^s call as he was ready to answer to AbeLincolns call. While father was in prison he saw five thousand,five hundred forty-nine men carried out, starved to deathin five months. I remember one of our marches. It was a fine day,hot and dusty, and about noon we halted for dinner. Aswe left the road and went into the woods for shade we sawanother regiment
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