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co, the other the champion Yale high- jumper. The 

 first was shot through the left afrm so as to paralyze 

 the fingers, but he continued in battle, pointing his 

 rifle over the wounded arm as though it had been a 

 rest. The other Waller, and Bugbee, were hit in 

 the head, the bullets merely inflicting scalp wounds. 

 Neither of them paid any heed to the wounds ex- 

 cept that after nightfall each had his head done up 

 in a bandage. Fortescue I was at times using as an 

 extra orderly. I noticed he limped, but supposed 

 that his foot was skinned. It proved, however, that 

 he had been struck in the foot, though not very seri- 

 ously, by a bullet, and I never knew what was the 

 matter until the next day I saw him making wry 

 faces as he drew off his bloody boot, which was stuck 

 fast to the foot. Trooper Rowland again distin- 

 guished himself by his fearlessness. 



For gallantry on the field of action Sergeants 

 Dame, Ferguson, Tiffany, Greenwald, and, later on, 

 Mcllhenny, were promoted to second lieutenancies, 

 as Sergeant Hayes had already been. Lieutenant 

 Carr, who commanded his troop, and behaved with 

 great gallantry throughout the day, was shot and 

 severely wounded at nightfall. He was the son of 

 a Confederate officer; his was the fifth generation 

 which, from father to son, had fought in every war 

 of the United States. Among the men whom I no- 

 ticed as leading in the charges and always being 



