. 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 . mportant commission, and was quietly dropped from the staff ashort time afterward. All men admit, if they speak truthfully, that the time when troops aretaking position preparatory to battle — when a few shells are bursting aboutand the advanced sharpshooters are picking oil a man here and there — is themost trying to overcome, and four-tifths of the men would act cowardly wereit not for the moral courage which sustains them until the exc
. 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 . mportant commission, and was quietly dropped from the staff ashort time afterward. All men admit, if they speak truthfully, that the time when troops aretaking position preparatory to battle — when a few shells are bursting aboutand the advanced sharpshooters are picking oil a man here and there — is themost trying to overcome, and four-tifths of the men would act cowardly wereit not for the moral courage which sustains them until the excitement ofactual conflict begins. It is during this trying period that men withoutmoral courage run away or surreptitiously drop out of the ranks and greater the intelligence and the more elevated the character of theindividual, the more he can be relied upon to stand the test of this mosttrying period. Resolute and ambitious, the true soldier will check theoutward flow of his feelings and face death as if he meant a struggle for coward, on the contrary, becomes a slave to his illusions and vanisheswith the first scent of A. H.—8 148 Till-: teTOia of ClIAITHJi XVII. Conflicts at tuk Stone Wall, Antietam — Tiiko. W. Oueki, 61st New York Infantry — Frank M. Whitman, 35tii Massachusetts Inkantkv — Succoring the Wounded — Major Tiios. AV. IIvDE, 7tii Maine Infantry — .1, (i. Ojith, 2Htii Pennsylvania Infantry. THKODOKE W. (il{l<:i(J, 01st New York Infantry, was l)orn in 1S4;{ inNew York city; enlisted in Company A, 61st New York VolunteerInfantry, as pi-ivato, Se])t(^nil)er 1), JHOl; was promoted successively1o scrj^cant majoi, Jnd lieutenant, 1st lieutenant, and captain; wasappointed aid-de-camp to (olonei (J. W. Van Scheck, commanding firstbrigade, first division second army corps, l^ehriiary 5, ; was appointedassistant ins])ector g(!neral, second brigade, first division, second army corps;was in thirty-six of the battles of the
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