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Show DYING SOLDIER'S ONE REGRET Obsessed by Thought That He Was Stricken Almost in the Moment of Great Triumph. v There are times when a man's purpose pur-pose overmasters everything else, following fol-lowing him even to the gates of death, rendering him un- conscious of the (" wT' t facts about him J? f In the one great T1'- N-I thought of accom- plishment. The (a burning of the fvi'i well-known Inn f?t i4l'aA -v on Lookout moun- flMu, tain drew the pub- Itftfl Y irSc. He attention to j0Jd'' that great battle ground. 's The site of the Inn, which commanded command-ed a widely extended view, looked directly di-rectly upon the scene of a famous charge of the Civil war. MaJ. Gen. O. O. Howard relates a pathetic little Incident which happened on this very spot, In his article entitled "Grant at Chattanooga." Four men were carrying a wounded soldier to the rear on a stretcher. "Where were you hurt, sergeant?" asked one officer. "Almost up, sir," was the faint reply. re-ply. "I mean in what part are you hurt?" The wounded man fixed his eyes on the speaker. "Almost to the top," he whispered. The officer lifted the covering and saw the frightfully shattered arm. "Yes, I was almost up," murmured the sergeant. "But for that I should have reached the top." He had been bearing the flag when he was shot He died, with the utterance utter-ance growing fainter and fainter on his lips: "Almost up." Youth's Companion. |