. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . t Wadlia of Fort Pulaski and Colorado, and is one of the ex-mayors of that city, andan honored citizen. Captain Wadlia was also wounded. He was our Ser- swanip angel fame. Lieutenant Lam-prey was shotthrough the bodv fa-tally ^ Lieutenant Acker-man, later CaptainAckerman of Nash-ua, who gallantlystood up in theface of the fire, ex-hibiting the samecourage that he al-ways had shown, wasalso wounded. Lieutenant Don-ley, the brave littleDonley of whom wehave before spokenwas wounded and for-tunately escapedfrom the field. Lieutenant El-dred
. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . t Wadlia of Fort Pulaski and Colorado, and is one of the ex-mayors of that city, andan honored citizen. Captain Wadlia was also wounded. He was our Ser- swanip angel fame. Lieutenant Lam-prey was shotthrough the bodv fa-tally ^ Lieutenant Acker-man, later CaptainAckerman of Nash-ua, who gallantlystood up in theface of the fire, ex-hibiting the samecourage that he al-ways had shown, wasalso wounded. Lieutenant Don-ley, the brave littleDonley of whom wehave before spokenwas wounded and for-tunately escapedfrom the field. Lieutenant El-dredge who had made himself conspic-uous, not only to our own men, l)ut to the enemy, was hitas he thought by a sharpshooter, the bullet passingthrough his wrist. He was hit early in the fight and thelast act of Colonel Plimpton immediately before he waskilled was to assist Lieutenant Eldredge in putting aturniquet upon his arm to stop the flow of blood, whichenabled the Lieutenant to get to the rear, escaping ashower of lead and iron from the enemys CaPT. DANIEL ELDREDGE. 459 REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION Captain Arlon S. Atherton, one of the yonngestand bravest of onr regimental of^cers, was badly wound-ed in the chest, a bullet also passing through his was left upon the field and taken prisoner by the en-emy. That he lived to tell the story is most enemy had driven our forces back and the battle hadended; he lay upon the field helpless, and as he himselfthought, approaching his end; his mouth and throat hadfilled with blood from the wound in his lung, and it waswith great difficulty that he could breathe at all. The ^ enemy was uponthe field, movingaround among the^\■ounde(l. plunder-ing them of ever}-thing of \ a 1 u !}- strippingfrom their bodiesuniforms. u n d e r-clothes. Ijoots. liter-a 1 1 y of our wound-ed men had a goldring upon his finger,when a l^arbarian inrel)el uniform seiz-ed his hand, at-tempting t
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