History of the Twenty-sixth Maine Regiment [electronic resource] . ed a nest of young squirrels out; I got one andput it in my haversack, and I always carried him with had him at Port Hudson and when lying in the trenches inthe day time he would go off and be gone for some time buton the firing of a gun he would come back on the run anddive for the old haversack. Before long the squirrel hadbecome so tame that it would go the full length of theregimental line, jumping from shoulder to shoulder ofthe men, but it always came back and crept into my knap-sack to sleep. In this way it followed
History of the Twenty-sixth Maine Regiment [electronic resource] . ed a nest of young squirrels out; I got one andput it in my haversack, and I always carried him with had him at Port Hudson and when lying in the trenches inthe day time he would go off and be gone for some time buton the firing of a gun he would come back on the run anddive for the old haversack. Before long the squirrel hadbecome so tame that it would go the full length of theregimental line, jumping from shoulder to shoulder ofthe men, but it always came back and crept into my knap-sack to sleep. In this way it followed me all through myservice in the army and when I was wounded at Irish Bendthe squirrel was found tucked snugly in the breast of mycoat and it refused to leave me even at the- hospital. I HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH MAINE REGIMENT. :>?)( brought him home and he was given the full run of thefarm and would go off into the woods and fields but alwaysreturned at meal times and to sleep. And where did it sleepbut in the old haversack which was kept hung up on the. corner of the chimney-place, filled with paper. One day, incleaning house, Mrs. Holmes neglected to hang the haver-sack back in its place, and when the squirrel found it wasgone it, too, disappeared but was afterwards found snuglytucked in my old knapsack at the bottom of a barrel in ashed and beneath a lot of papers as well. The haversackwas returned to its place and the squirrel slept in that theremainder of his life. This wasnt for long, as one day hewas missed and never returned. I think some one shot him. 358 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH MAINE REGIMENT. From Bangor I came to Stockton and for about two yearsI was laid up most of the time on account of my wound. In1865 I had the shot cut out; it weighed one and one-halfounces and was an inch and one-eighth long. After getting well, I went to work carpentering, I workedabout five years at that, then went into the electrical work,worked about seventeen years for the old
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