Show W Wounded Seeks Rest Relt in Open H House Huse use and andIs andIs ands Is s Taken by y Enemy JOHN H. H ROE BOB Capt John H. H Roo Ninth East street was WU a member of the one ona hundred and fifty seventh seventh New York regiment and was was wu with that organization during Its most active participation In the tho Gettys Gettysburg burg conflict Shortly after arter the battle battIe he was waa appointed captain In 1886 the tho legislature legis Jests legislature lature of the tha state atte of New York appointed a a. commission to write a history of ot tho the participation of of New Yorks York's troops In that battle In this work the following Is stated of ot Captain Roes Roe regiment The one ona hundred and seventh fifty Now York of Amberg a brigade was post posted d on the tha extreme left lett of ot tho the eleventh corps This regiment led by Col Cot Philip P. P Brown Jr encountered a a. severe fire from both Infantry and artillery which told with fearful effect on the ranks Over 00 of ot It Its men mon were struck down here and Including Col George were killed In lt its encounter encounter encounter en en- counter with Doles Dole's brigade the tha one ona hundred hun hun- dred arid and seventh fifty for for- fought Its way forward forward for tor ward to Use the furthest point reached by by a any regiment on the eleventh corpa corps lino Une Un In the tha Hamilton College Annual for 1911 at the tha request of tit hIs hla class clus of or 1854 1861 of which Ellhu Root was waa a a. member CaPtain Captain Cap CaP- tain Roe gives Bives a af graphic description of ot his hi personal participation in the battle battU The following Interesting excerpts are taken Bullet Hits Rita Cheek A As Aa we took only 31 men In and had a brigade to right fight with shot down It was waa getting serious X 1 Iwas waa WUI wounded here hue first Drat by a a. rifle ball in the tha right cheek which knocked but out a piece of flesh aa as large aa u my mv thumb cut off the jaw muscles and the tha arteries in front of ot the eAr car The Tha blood spurted at every heart brat beat fully two feet The piece of flesh nuh still sUIl hung hUnK near near the ear Shortly after that another missile of some flomo kind kind kind-I I have always sups up posed It It It- was a splinter of ot shell shell cut cut I downward through h my right cheek and entering the under aide Of f the eye socket cut through the cheek bone and went out und under r the right ear cutting the tho lower end off ort clean By this time the order came to fallback fall fallback back to Cemetery hill hill- Our retreat WM was their an ad n annoying the enemy pushing I tage tase in every overy way way- Every street and d alloy leading was Jammed full Cavalry artillery am I ammunition wagons struggling t 1 to set get et along as 85 fast as aa po On main main street the street the street the Baltimore pike I I spied a pump and sink lInk at the end of an an open hall hail in one pf f the houses house I steppe stepped V Vin i F in to got a drink and then stayed a little perhaps four or five to minutes minutes to wa wash n nOff Off oft some soma of the blood When I went outto out outto t to resume my retreat a a regiment of Johnle was wae trotting along at trail a arms j jon on the tha walk In front of the house an anI and Inthe in s the tho direction I had intended had intended to takeI take I went back and leisurely went d Into the This s was wall 4 or di r 6 b e o'clock indirection in the tho afternoon of ot th theto the tho first day for One half of the basement was used fo for forwood wood Brood and fuel while the mistress of at the house houe with some other p people were In th the theand ether ather part I took boar 1 from rom a a. pas puo ana and the woman brought me mea a abl blanket a or two tro Putting PutUnI one end of the th and a pillow illow of wood I made fc slit aUtt boards on a 0 low pile of 0 a pall tIe bed She also brought me water and some cloths and I dressed v woun wounds by Confederates Confederate C and a athey About 9 0 o'clock I heard an n of officer two Iwo vo soldiers come Into the hill hAll abeT ab abet l. l and Woman If Jt thet a ere any they thoy asked the i In the house She told t em there were some lome in tho the basement rhoy hadi a lantern and came down I ras aas In pIa and the confederate steppe t eP light tight confederate v i f v la tl t jp ip to me and asked me J W the theis the Ut the wet cloths and across the cheek stood open Yew verY rr Well young fellow I J am sorry for u. u Then he went around to the stairs sad 1 whom hOm over another mIn m n I sn an was there Ho hadn't known was wu Irishman whose right arm ann lad fad beet bed bro n ken by a a. minute ball l r P Tie The man who lived in inthe the hO came that home at night I learned Fang he ha was waa a a. southern about H He 1 ed m meV me to get up and go about a ash north to a a. big church t that was be being aa ss a Go ho hospital IW urging that at Jf union were found in hla is house all An 11 his i Av c tse ml might ht be stolen or r rr t destroyed troyed I r replied that the southern officer I. I and t a permission to stay tay given yen me o Intended to In tho rho morning 1 went wenlu l UDes look looked d out the tho front door and tf ard block the rebel picket line about a a. br e a ok bock c cIn church a the south and th the half halt to trees tb In direction The trees JW the other In n bore gunshot K wounds pretty v I 1 realized realised f it t was wu an atmosphere pr prep I out eith but with death 10 haversack containing my tab I e fr- fr eluding my revolver which I had concealed Tho The vestibule vestibule of ot thee the ch was large largo and here a t temporary temporal or I 1 tating table had been set act up p. p Strange Meeting With Fi FrI Friends en I Z 1 went t Inside e ide Boards with straw beenZ been put over the two middle toW mw Continued on l J Ii |