I made inquiries about you and I traced you as far as Shiloh, but I could get no further." "I was at Shiloh," said Dick proudly.

"I was captured just before it began, but I escaped while it was at its height and fought until the close." "And after that ?" "My regiment was sent east, sir.

I went with it through the Second Manassas and Antietam.

Then we came back west to help General Buell.

I was at Perryville and was wounded there, but I soon got well." "Perryville was a terrible battle.