over the wooden paling. Next day, the Sisters' only horse was com- 

 mandeered. At the protest of a neighbor's boy, an officier ordered the 

 animal returned to them, and for safe keeping, the horse was stabled 

 in the convent kitchen. A few days later, he was the only horse avail- 

 able in the whole town to carry water to the wounded and dying on 

 the field of Gettysburg. 



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