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Show startling Tableau. Chaunci-y M. I)e;iew. I 1 heard (General Sherman onco narrate nar-rate a very striking battle incident. He hud rallied his troops and led them to a charge which was everywhere successful. success-ful. As he rode into the enemy's camp he saw a soldier lying on a barrow, ami ollicer standinir over him with an uplifted up-lifted knife lie shouted lo the ollicer not to strike and spurred up to the group to discover thut the men were both dead, the only solution being that the ollicer, who was a surgeon, was in the act of performing an operation for tho extraction of a bullet upon tho soldier sol-dier when the concussion of a cannon bail passing near them hud killed them both, and they had stiffened iu the attitude at-titude they occupied at the moment wlion their lives went out. |