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Title: A history of the Fifth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 (electronic resource)
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Child, William, b. 1834
Subjects: United States. Army. New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, 5th (1861-1865)
Publisher: Bristol, N.H. : R.W. Musgrove, printer
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
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rgeant), just then. I said to Charlie Bean, If I am shot,you take charge of the company. Corporal. There was aboulder near and I told the sergeant to invert his piece andhelped him over to the rock. Then I went back. Just after we relieved the Eighty-eighth New York atDeaths road a spherical case exploded and blew its colonelshead off. When I got back the company had fallen back. CharlieBean had been wounded with what proved to be a mortalwound. When we went in our brigade separated, and ourregiment bore the whole weight of the army for the daj-Then we moved by the left flank and went down in the littleravine. A spherical case came down there and woundedfour or five of the color guard. Then we moved up on to aknoll and halted. General Richardson rode up and all ofthem sat there, and colonel said to me, You had better goto the rear and have your arm seen to. I went along andasked some of the boys where Charlie Bean was shot, andthey told me as well as they could. If he is dead, lets go
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Theron a. Farr, Capt. Co. O. ANTIETAM. 113 over and get him out. When I got out where those fellowswere shot from the color guard, I found him. I said, Wont some of you come and help get this man to the am-bulance? Two pieces of artillery had just come over thecreek, the first that day. Right over in front of Dunker church was a rebel batteryin position. There I found Charlie Bean, I got them to takehim back to the ambulance. I was going back where theguns were and that was where General Richardson got hismortal wound. I went back ; there was not much fightingafter that. When I found our field hospital it was prettynear night. There were twentj-eight of us in the basement,and all but four belonged to our regiment; two to a NewYork regiment; Colonel Nesbit of the Thirtieth Georgia andLieutenant John Woden of the Tenth Alabama. We laythere until the next day About 10 oclock in the morningCross came down to see us. Some one asked him why theball had not been opened. He said, Oh, it is .s

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