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Show Between lliee and me near him. His form and face were majestic, his pallid brow, his hair gracefully swept hack, was a splendid picture of the serenity of death, almost as expressive as life, and the most earnest plea for peace that 1 have ever contemplated. On the opposite side of the lane was a confederate whom a ball had killed. Evidently he had received a mortal wound, and had sat down to die in an angle of the fence, and rested on a small log he found there. He was also leaning against the fence, which held him up in a position that seemed very His hat was on his head and sheltered his face which was bowed slightly to the front. In his mouth A last gasp of humanity Conclusion As we nxle over the field, d fathers and mothers from the nearer homes in Virginia were already there looking for their pay-haire- dead or wounded sous. All was silent save meanings of the sufferers, and the sulxlued chir- rup of little wrens as they sought for their mutes. The birds seemed as sad as the venerable seekers for their loved ones. The dead seemed rated, the victims of the bayonet. Several had fallen in this close to preserve their personal characteristics, and the tense strain of the conflict was settled upon their features. In most cases, death on he held his pipe, with a very short was heavily clad in foliage had leen stem, in a way that was quite nacut through with cannon shot untural and suggestive of his race. til the top had fallen over and formHis wound was in the thigh, and ed a thick mass of branches and while he was bleeding to death he leaves on the ground. There was had doubtless sought comfort in his a corpse of undergrowth near by, pipe. into which we saw a man dart like A BEAITIFI'L an arrow as we rode up. From the photograph was in the side pocket of the fedtree top came low moaning, as eral soldier, near the fatal blood from one who feared discovery, and spot on his shirt Ikkoiii. We thought yet could not stifle his voice when we could readily trace his dving spasms of pain returned upoii him. thoughts to that dear friend. We It proved to lie a field officer of a left him with his friends picture New Jersey or Delaware regiment, where we found it, to find, in anwhose thigh bud been crushed by other spot, a mile distant, a living a cannon shot in liattle. proof that it is love and not hatred His servant had laid him in that surv ives death, and commands the tree-to- p with leaves and a the heart's last tribute to devotion. horse blanket for a bed, and was The Uxlv of an oak tree that soldier-and-Irishm- combat.' One of them was a very handthe battlefield is instantaneous and some man, clean shaven and dresspainless, and the latest thoughts ed in a neat uniform as a private in seem to linger on the faces of the the federal anny. He was alxiut 30 dead. years old. On his shirt bosom there was a single spot of blood. He sat AS WE RODE along the farm lanes where the rail fences had almost erect, his back propped in lieen torn away as they were cross- the comer of a fence, with his blue ed and recrossed by charging col- eyes wide open and his mouth umns, we found, not widely sepa firmly closed, and his gun and hat life-lik- The Deseret Sampler, Fri., February 18, 1972 guarding him. When the servant, 'if they are enemies." saw us halt, he came out timorou THE MAJOR hearing our ly from his hiding, and was weeping conversation, invited us to dis-and pleading for the life of his mount and come to him. We went master. I said to him, "What do you to his hiding place and found him take us for?" with loss of blood, and in great "BUT BE you not rebels'? pale anguish. he said. Seeing that we were Confeder1 answered "We are called ate officers, he said, "I wish to give reliels, and yet your kiudred." you my parole." "Be you Christian men?" "We need none from you," I I said, "That is our faith." 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