. 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 . , 384 THE STORY OF heated he had ceased firing for a few minutes to clean it, when, hardlytwenty yards away three forms in gray emerged from the trees, evidentlybelieving they had forced back their enemies at this particular point. Oneof them bore the colors of his regiment. Kemp no longer thought of cleaning his gun. Hurriedly loading it, hismind intent upon gaining possession of the Stars and Bars, heeding notthe disparity in numb
. 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 . , 384 THE STORY OF heated he had ceased firing for a few minutes to clean it, when, hardlytwenty yards away three forms in gray emerged from the trees, evidentlybelieving they had forced back their enemies at this particular point. Oneof them bore the colors of his regiment. Kemp no longer thought of cleaning his gun. Hurriedly loading it, hismind intent upon gaining possession of the Stars and Bars, heeding notthe disparity in numbers, he dashed forward with a yell as he discharged hisweapon, and an instant later was grappling with the color-bearer and one ofthe color guards, the third of the Confederates having already received thecontents of his musket. Two and fro. amid the tangled foliage, trampling here upon a woundedman and stumbling there over a coi-pse, the three reel, until by a lucky. A Race for the Flag. chance, the Michigander disables the second man, and the fight is now onmore equal terms. On every hand are the roar of battle, the cracklingmusketry, the sharp whistle of bullets, with now and then the screaming ofshells as an accompaniment to this struggle which can only be ended bythe death of one. Backward, forward, to the riglit and to the left, the breath of bothcontestants coming in gasps, their vision clouded l\y the heat of passion andthe smoke of the battle; reeling, striking, struggling, each for the otherslife, until the supreme moment came for the man in gray, and he in bluegrasping the colors, which had so nearly cost him his life, staggers throughthe undorl)rush to rejoin his companions that he may recover from thefatitrue of that conflict which had brought death to three, and enrolled the AMERICAN HEROISM. 385 name of the fourth on the pages devoted to the heroes of his says: I was in every battle and skirmish in which the regiment was e
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