. 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 . alled intoservice once more, and both worked for dear life until meeting withthose who were tunneling from the inside, and then the hole wassoon made sufficiently large to enable them to pass the officerthrough. ••The heroic deed had been performed, but those who hadbraved death to save a life did not succeed in their entire purposeThe man was wounded mortally; but they had made it possibhfor him to die in peace among friends. •• The lieu
. 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 . alled intoservice once more, and both worked for dear life until meeting withthose who were tunneling from the inside, and then the hole wassoon made sufficiently large to enable them to pass the officerthrough. ••The heroic deed had been performed, but those who hadbraved death to save a life did not succeed in their entire purposeThe man was wounded mortally; but they had made it possibhfor him to die in peace among friends. •• The lieutenant was placed upon a stretcher, antat once carried to the field hospital and from then toWashington, where he died in less than three weeks. •■ ()nce again after this, in front of Petersburg,Boss wriit between the lines of battle to bring awaya wounded comrade, and. as before, escaped withouta scratch. For these services was his name written onthe Roll of Honor as it should have been, for suchdeeds require far more courage than is often dis-played amid the heat and excitement of battle whenone frequently acts unconsciously! as it Boss himself writes an account of this ac-tion in which he won the Oklaktoo p. Boss,medal, but he does so in such an exceedingly modest mannerthat one would suppose it was a matter of everyday occur-
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