4/22 His own illness was increased, perhaps occasioned, by the anguish which he underwent in his search for the unhappy young volunteer. Nothing would satisfy him but that he, too, should go to the ground and examine it. With money he procured a guide or two. He forded the river at the place where the army had passed over: he went from one end to the other of the dreadful field. It was no longer haunted by Indians now. |