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Title: Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: United Confederate Veterans
Subjects: United Confederate Veterans -- Anniversaries, etc United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Anniversaries, etc.
Publisher: (Columbus, Ohio : Terry Engraving Co., 1895.)
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ness, and we might expect the man who usedthis language of prudence to behave accordingly. No doubt he madegood resolutions and kept them until the next battle. What the particular occasion was that brought him to this realizingsense of his danger, and to the good resolution to be more prudent after-wards, I heard from his wife. Calling at the governors house with myfriend, Mr. Samuel M. Inman, we found him just leaving for New York.He came in, however, to see us, and gave us the warmest welcome, talk-ing in his hearty way for a few minutes till he had to leave for thetrain, while we lingered to enjoy what was left behind of his delightfulhome circle, and heard some of his experiences from one not less bravethan he, who followed him in all his campaigns, and who was never faraway from the sound of battle. It was on the field of Antietam (orSharpsburg, as the Southerners call it) that General Gordon was shotfive times. First he felt a sharp pain in the calf of his right leg, as if a 72
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General John B. Gordon 74 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. wasp had stung him; it was a minie ball that had gone through. Hewould have felt it more but he had no time to think about it, for allaround him men were falling like sheaves of grain. At such a moment alleyes are turned upon the commander, and for him to quit the field orshow any sign of weakness might demoralize a vital portion of thearmy. So he held himself erect, though he felt the blood trickling fromhis wound, which soon ran faster as a second shot pierced him again,this time a little higher on the same leg. An hour later a third ballcrashed through his left arm. Blood was streaming from three un-staunched wounds, while a fourth ball tore through his shoulder. Hestill refused to leave the field. Tell my men, he said, to fire on, and firefast. I shall not leave them. Without a bandage on a single wound,weak and dizzy from loss of blood, he reeled along his lines, cheeringhis men, when he was struck down by a fifth ball through his

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