While dressing his wounds, he quietly talked of what they had done, and of what they yet could do.

To-day I have had the Colonel _order_ him to obey me.

He is perfectly quiet and cool, but takes this whole affair with the religious bearing of a man who realizes that freedom is sweeter than life.

Yet another soldier did not report himself at all, but remained all night on guard, and possibly I should not have known of his having had a buck-shot in his shoulder, if some duty requiring a sound shoulder had not been required of him to-day." This last, it may be added, had persuaded a comrade to dig out the buck-shot, for fear of being ordered on the sick-list.

And one of those who were carried to the vessel--a man wounded through the lungs--asked only if I were safe, the contrary having been reported.