Show ri j I 1 lR WOUNDED MAN SAVES i FRIEND i J Graphic Account of Incident Battle of Injured Williamsburg-Injured Injured After j I Soldier Re Rescues s Another This Is the story story of a wounded man I Iwho who despite the physical 11 pain of the Injury the mental woes ho had suffer 11 ed and the horror of the sight that met his eyes after a night of or agony still tUl had courage to save from distress and possible le death another man more t seriously Injured than ho The res re cuer cueras was as Charles M. M Morton a member IDem mem- I ber bel of the Second Michigan regiment f and the man he be saved was Capt later William B. B McCreery whose t town own account o of the Incident after the t battle of or Williamsburg In May tay 1862 f gives more credit to Mr Morton than the latter assumes for himself Our regiment went Into action I a little after noon said Mr Morton l and at about 5 o'clock I wa war wound ed My Iy right arm fell helpless and I 1 began to wonder what I ShoUld fo with myself The battle had been raging all an day and the ambulances had for hours bours been overworked carryIng carrying car car- r away sway the wounded at y such a I Iy time there could be no thought for the dead t I 1 was war able to walk wark and I took the f. f H r M l lI kS' kS 6 I I Looked D Down own road that the passage of the ambulances ambulances ambulances F lances ha had made Two miles mUes I tramped i and then came ame to the yard of a large g plantation The mansion was already filled with wounded and was vas no room for me At one side there were ere 1 many negro cabins and to these I 1 applied applied applied ap ap- plied for admission n only to find them crowded At last at the end of the therow therow row I came to one where there was room in the corner for one more man maD Ito f tn to lie He down There I lay aW night We j were packed on the floor like sardines The air was foul roul We had neither food r nor water A number of or the men died t tin in the night As soon as the morning began to steal In through the door I made an effort and rose to my feet I picked Itt my way over the bodies living and daJ dead and looked out through the thedOOr door J The broad yard through which I 1 had haJ j come I the he evening before lay tay under tinder the ff dawn as full lull of wounded and aed dead r r men as were the the- houses t I 1 walked among them looking Into Inta Ir the faces to see if It I could recognize tJ j jany any anyone one As As- AsI I 1 passed there at came a vol-e vol For Goo Gods sake sal Charley Chancy Is that thai rott you g I 1 looked locked down The face that was looking at me was with I blood and mud and was able ibie As Who are you ou I asked I C 1 cg Tn Jm Cap b he be gasped p sped It t was Captain of company com com- pany pan G G. of which I was a n member and l lie afterward colonel of 01 the Twenty Twenty first rs 4 tr l Michigan an re He tend had DW DeCD wounded in three places li In the thigh j to lor arm and body I dont don't know bow ho 1 I got an ambulance for him hint but hilt I dl did d Since that day 1 t have not een mY I I j re watch and probably I gave e lt it to tit tin L La be driver of the ambulance so o that the O ar to would take the captain and anel me river At least the ambulance did J j a take us over miles of corduroy road to j t Ithe b the York river where the the steamer I It J hospital I T tJ a II Vanderbilt was waiting as boat and and we we were sent to 1 IE t tand tf Monroe and eventually to Baltimore and the hospitals t o n |