If it were, very few of us would have got through the three days' fighting alive, whereas the casualties only amount to one-tenth of the force engaged.

I am very sorry you are wounded." "Oh, my wound is a mere trifle.

I scarcely felt it until the sergeant next to me said, 'You are wounded in the arm, Captain Mallett.' The doctor says that it narrowly missed the bone, but in this case a miss is as good as a mile.

I am very sorry about Hatchard and Rivers and Miles.

They were all good fellows, and when this excitement is over we shall miss them sadly.