. . d in ashort time, under <darkness, the suffering manmight be reached. ButMcllvaine was inexorableand started upon his had no sooner enteredthe narrow pass than hefell, a bullet havingentirely through his was laid upon a stretch-er and borne to the Marker, w h -tremulous voice showedhow deeply he was affected,spoke to him he was car- ,OSEPH K MOS lY-FOlKrH. ried past, but the dying of- KUled ;ll Chicfcamansa, Septemberficer was unable to answer 20th, [86 intelligibly. Tears flowed freely from
. . d in ashort time, under <darkness, the suffering manmight be reached. ButMcllvaine was inexorableand started upon his had no sooner enteredthe narrow pass than hefell, a bullet havingentirely through his was laid upon a stretch-er and borne to the Marker, w h -tremulous voice showedhow deeply he was affected,spoke to him he was car- ,OSEPH K MOS lY-FOlKrH. ried past, but the dying of- KUled ;ll Chicfcamansa, Septemberficer was unable to answer 20th, [86 intelligibly. Tears flowed freely from the eyes of Ilarker, as heturned away. Harker had sometimes been impatient with Mc-llvaine, because the latter did not, in all matters of discipline anddrill, come up to the high standard of West Point; but in the hourof death he paid affectionate and willing tribute to one with whomhe had been so Long associated, who had never flinched in the faceof danger, who had been ever faithful to duty as he saw it, andnow had laid his life upon the altar of 52° NTANT-COLONKL nr rj,ITT DIS Worthy of all praise for their gallant support of the Sixty-rth were the Third Kentucky ami Seventy-ninth Illinois. Bothsuffered severely, though their losses were not nearly so larg<those of the former. Colonel Buckner,of the Seventy-ninth,wasdangerously wounded through the body. It was believed at thetime that his hurt would prove mortal, but he recovered and, .some months, resumed his place at the head of his Bullitt, of the Third Kentucky, also received a grievous wound, a nmball passing through histhigh. He was carried tothe rear, through the ranksof the Sixty-fifth, which lu-ll ad recently commandedfor four months. Its offi-cers and men had formedfor him an excceding! \warm attachment, and theexpressions of regret andsympathy for him weremany and sin He eventually recovered in ameasure, but was disabledfor life. At the close of the en-gagement, the Six
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