. Bullet and shell. War as the soldier saw it; camp, march, and picket; battlefield and bivouac; prison and hospital. Runaway, he exclaimedin a sarcastic tone. Well, dont you wish you had staid withme? No, indeed, sir. I would not have missed the late move-ment for any thing, I replied. Dont you think you would have been better off on The A SAVAGE BOUT. 105 Elm City, than tramping through those dreadful swamps, andcoming here with a smashed foot ? Perhaps so, colonel; but I prefer the swamps. Ive a good mind to put you under arrest for deserting yourpost, he exclaimed with a frown on his face.
. Bullet and shell. War as the soldier saw it; camp, march, and picket; battlefield and bivouac; prison and hospital. Runaway, he exclaimedin a sarcastic tone. Well, dont you wish you had staid withme? No, indeed, sir. I would not have missed the late move-ment for any thing, I replied. Dont you think you would have been better off on The A SAVAGE BOUT. 105 Elm City, than tramping through those dreadful swamps, andcoming here with a smashed foot ? Perhaps so, colonel; but I prefer the swamps. Ive a good mind to put you under arrest for deserting yourpost, he exclaimed with a frown on his face. Oh, no, doctor! You only arrest contract surgeons, for try-ing to cut off a mans fingers, I replied saucily, for I knew heconsidered the incident a great joke. Ha, ha! so I do. Well, sergeant, heres your pass. Nowgo aboard the steamer, and God bless you, my brave boy! That night the steamer dropped down the river; and soonafter, I entered on hospital life in Baltimore, not seeing myregiment again for some months. 106 BULLET AND SHELL. CHAPTER X. AGAIN IN HARNESS. It was a goodly sightTo see the embattled In Camp under the Mountains, Va., Nov. 4,1862. EAR WILMOT, —I am glad your foot is gettingstrong, for we miss j^ou very much. You wouldhave enjoyed our campaign in Maryland if youhad come out of it with a whole skin as I did ; butour poor regiment has suffered terribly. At Ma-nassas we got into an awful hole, and, out of fivehundred and forty officers and men, came off thefield with less than three hundred. Adjutant Bu-ford was killed almost at the moment we went intoaction ; for he was struck in the chest by no lessthan five bullets, while we were all scrambling outof a ditch by the side of the railroad. CaptainWaylaud got a ball in his l)rain soon after, and wealso lost Lieutenants King and Gellett; while among the woundedwere Captain Joyce and Lieutenants Butler, Healy, and Martin. Soyou see, the recruits they have sent us are very welcome : yet we donot muster mor
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