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upon the spot, they found a beautiful Kentucky filly 

 standing over an unconscious soldier. The pair 

 seemed to these scouts scarcely worth capturing. 

 The wounded officer was a care,, and the filly was 

 not needed ; they had enough saddle-horses, although 

 they were short of animals for transporting their cap- 

 tured supplies. After going a few miles, an ambu- 

 lance was overtaken ; but it was already loaded with 

 wounded. Then another one was sighted ; but it 

 too was unable to receive the unconscious ' Yankee ' 

 officer. A field hospital, located in a barn, was 

 presently reached, where the wounded man was 

 turned over to the surgeon in charge. The faithful 

 Sallie started to follow her master into the barn. A 

 rough soldier seized her bit, and gave it so sudden 

 and violent a jerk as to set her back upon her 

 haunches and cause her to throw her head high into 

 the air. It was the first rough treatment she had 

 ever received, and it came as a sudden revelation that 

 there was such a thing as evil in the world. She 

 involuntarily shrank from the soldier, who had given 

 her sensitive system such a shock, and received a 

 terrible kick in the side from a heavy cavalry boot 



