. Recollections of a Rebel surgeon, and other sketches : or, in the doctor's sappy days . and that he and hisyoung staff-officers played a game of seven-upto decide it. Chalmers won, and that meant as-sault, and he assaulted—butted his brains out,figuratively. I do not know whether this is true or not, con-tinued the Old Doctor, but it probably is. Thosegay youngsters would play cards, you know, andtheyd bet on anything. They were very dare-devils, and did not stop at anything. It is a very remarkable coincidence that thissame General Chalmers attacked Fort Pickensearlier in the war, and was b
. Recollections of a Rebel surgeon, and other sketches : or, in the doctor's sappy days . and that he and hisyoung staff-officers played a game of seven-upto decide it. Chalmers won, and that meant as-sault, and he assaulted—butted his brains out,figuratively. I do not know whether this is true or not, con-tinued the Old Doctor, but it probably is. Thosegay youngsters would play cards, you know, andtheyd bet on anything. They were very dare-devils, and did not stop at anything. It is a very remarkable coincidence that thissame General Chalmers attacked Fort Pickensearlier in the war, and was badly repulsed, andthat the same General Wilder was in command ofthe garrison at Fort Pickens, Looks like havinghad his fingers burnt once would have made hima little more cautious how he tackled Wilder. Chalmers was only about 26 years of age, andwas as ambitious as he was handsome and that fatal assault, amongst the other gallantMississippians, needlessly sacrificed, was thebrave and much-beloved colonel of the loth Mis-sissippi Infantry, Colonel Bob Smith, of Jackson, 100. A FATAL ASSAUI^T. RECOLLECTIONS OF A REBEL SURGEON. Miss. I went in under a flag of truce to see him,when Bragg had arrived with his army two orthree days later, but Colonel Smith was pastknowing any one. I noticed in the ConfederateVeteran that a granite shaft has been erectedby the Mississippi people to his memory, on thespot where he fell. My brother, captain of oneof Smiths companies, and whom you all know,was desperately wounded while leading his menover that murderous abattis. 5|C 3^ JjC 3jC About 2 oclock on the third day after the as-sault the army arrived, and bivouacked all aroundthe little town on the mountains. That night,when the camp-fires were lighted. General Wil-der saw that an army had arrived in force, andsent out a flag and offered to surrender, or inreply to a demand to surrender, I do not knowwhich. That is the surrender of which I told you,I believe, before; the one conduct
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