. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . Spottsylvania. ally as though an army of locusts hadswarmed on its branches. A grasshop-per could not have lived through thepelting of the leaden storm, and butfor the fact thai our troops were pro-tected by breastworks they would havebeen swept away to a man. The list of eighteen men who were awarded medals for their heroism onthis particular twelItli day of May, 1864, will be found in another chapter. AMERICAN HEROISM. 395 WAL
. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . Spottsylvania. ally as though an army of locusts hadswarmed on its branches. A grasshop-per could not have lived through thepelting of the leaden storm, and butfor the fact thai our troops were pro-tected by breastworks they would havebeen swept away to a man. The list of eighteen men who were awarded medals for their heroism onthis particular twelItli day of May, 1864, will be found in another chapter. AMERICAN HEROISM. 395 WALLACE NOVKS. 2nd Vermont [npantrt. Imong the letters received from the recipients of medals on this occa-sion is one from William Wallace Noyes, now residing in Montpelier, Noyes was born in Montpelier. in 1846. July 23, 1863, he native town as private in Corn-Vermont Infantry. enlisted in hispany 2nd Captain Day-niand of the 2ndthus gives an ac-bravery during the By reason ofincurred during thepaign, and the de-lield officer on dutyniand of the 2ndnient devolved up-in the morning thewith others, wasthrough a piece ofsmall clearing, and. ton P. Clark, who was in com-Regiment at Spottsylvania, count of Noyesaction: Noyes i« the Breastworks. the heavy lossesWilderness cam-tail of our onlythat day, the com-Vermont Regi-on me. Very early2nd Regiment,ordered forwardwoods, through acharged the Con-federate line, which was protected by breastworks at the further end of thisclearing. As the commanding officer of the regiment, my duties caused meto move up and down the entire length on my line, and you may be sure thatI had all I could attend to. The men were reaching over the breastworksand were firing into the Confederates on the other side, as well as trying topunch them with bayonets, and the Confederates were doing the same noticed Private Noyes standing on the top of the breastworks within sometwenty or thirty feet of where a large number of Confederates we
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