Show the dogs effort efforts were ivero in vain during the civil war I 1 enlisted in the th new jersey with our regiment was a man mail named harding arding II whom we had picked dup up on the march lie was a good natured fellow a fine shot and was soon won recognized as asa a comrade by bythe the men lie ire was accompanied by an immense dog of f danish breed and the two were inse inseparable paro while the men would be playing cards around the fire bran would sit looking on with his great wise face during the battle of harding was severely severely wounded and left behind by the troops ills dog had become separated from him in the rush of the men and ho be had spent a fearful night on the ground buffering suffering from cold and thirst in the morning we noticed the dog running around and whining pitifully he be having noticed the absence of ills master at last he ran off after searching some three houra hours among the dead and wounded voun ded lie found his master in the corner of a broken down fence lie ile was out of his ilia b head ml and was talking brokenly of homo home and friends then he changed his cry to water water and as wo we stooped over him we could hear him saying walterl Wa terl the tile dog heard it too and going to a dead soldier near baho by he literally tore the coat off his back looking for the mans canteen lie ile had none the next one had bad and tearing open the pocket he got it and anti ran back tobis to his master placing it in hit hand band he be sat down beside him as though h satisfied we gave him a drink and then carried him to camp in our arms lie ile lost consciousness ness tims on themay the way aud and died toon boon after new york recorder |