. 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 . or help. Genei-al Hooker asked for a detail to go outside of our lines and try tobring in some of the enemy, that they might be cared for. Our commanderhesitated about detailing any one on so dangerous an errand, claiming thatthey would certainly be killed, since the North Carolina regiment had laindown beside the road near where the wounded men were. General Hooker then called for volunteers out of our company, and 248 THE STORY OF those
. 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 . or help. Genei-al Hooker asked for a detail to go outside of our lines and try tobring in some of the enemy, that they might be cared for. Our commanderhesitated about detailing any one on so dangerous an errand, claiming thatthey would certainly be killed, since the North Carolina regiment had laindown beside the road near where the wounded men were. General Hooker then called for volunteers out of our company, and 248 THE STORY OF those whom 1 have mentioned, together with John B. Runyon, offered theirservices. We climbed over our works and advanced to where the wounded menlay. but succeeded only in bringing one man liack. whom we carried to theChancellorsville House. During all this time we were under a heavy skirmish tire. Runyon was wounded on the following day, and died shortly remainder of the party, 1 believe, are yet alive. Mr. Seaman was born in Ohio, September 11, 1838, and enlisted October22, 18G1, as private in Company A, 66th Ohio Infantry. At the expiration of. Willi Will Volunteer? his first term of service, he reenlisted as a veteran in the same company andregiment. December 15. 1868. Henry Heller, now residing in Urbana, Ohio, sends the following as hismilitary record: I was born in Clarion. Pa., in 1841, and at the beginning of the war wasresiding in Irbana. There it was that 1 enlisted April 20, 1861, as sergeant AMEUJCAN HEROISM. t>49 in Company K of the 13th Ohio Infantry, a three-months organization. Atthe expiration of that term of service I reenlisted in Company A, 66th OhioInfantry, and served three years and three months, being with Sherman onhis March to the Sea, when the second term of service the incident related by Mr. Seaman, he says:It was on the second day of the fight at Chancellorsville that GeneralHooker called for five men of my company to vol
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