. The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union . 52 SCENES OF BATTLE. The fight in the forenoon had exhausted them, and they wereunprepared for the work still to be done. The battle was fierce; men were falling like hail, in all theagonies of death. Here a drummer boy was lying face down-ward, his stiff hand clutching the stick whose strokes would neverwake the echoes again. There an officer, his uniform dyed withblood, lay prostrate on the ground, his horse half across hisstiffening body, while at every turn the wound
. The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union . 52 SCENES OF BATTLE. The fight in the forenoon had exhausted them, and they wereunprepared for the work still to be done. The battle was fierce; men were falling like hail, in all theagonies of death. Here a drummer boy was lying face down-ward, his stiff hand clutching the stick whose strokes would neverwake the echoes again. There an officer, his uniform dyed withblood, lay prostrate on the ground, his horse half across hisstiffening body, while at every turn the wounded were huddledtogether, in the positions in which they MAP OF LOYAL AND SECEDING STATES. Ralphs heart turned sick, as he saw the brave fellows whomanned the batteries tumbling over each other, many of themshot through the heart, as the Confederates, tempted by theirsuccess, stole nearer to the guns. Captain Griffin, who made the sad mistake of thinking thetroops were his own men coming to his aid, permitted the nearerapproach of the Confederates. He discovered his error when avolley of musketry took nearly every gunner and stretchedLieutenant Ramsay low in death, as the rebels rushed in andseized the guns.
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