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AT CHICK AM AUG A.A Disabled Confederate Saves a Sorely Wounded Federat’a Life.Miles P. Cook, of Flint, Mich., went to the front daring the war in the Twentieth Ohio Battery, and had an experience at the battle of Chicka-maug.i which he will ever remeniber-He says:‘•On the first day of the fight oar battery was charged time after time, but we repulsed the Coofedeiates each time until about mid-afternoon. A raw regiment was then brought up to act as support for the battery, and at the very first charge they fled in wild disorder. We were left stark alone on open ground, and though we gave them double charges of canister the Confederate lines swept right up to our guns and over us. I was shot in the arm and lei, and was left Iving on the» oground with scores of other3 when the guns wore drawn off.“As soon as I could look around me I found that the man on my right, who was wounded in the hand, shoulder and thigh, was a Confederate. He was a member of the Ninth Alabama Infantry—one of the charging regiments—and his name was A. R. Carter. There were other Federal and Con-r federate wounded around us, and the ground was covered with dead men and horses. I dressed Carter’s wounds and he dressed mine, and with the roar of battle round us we became the best of friends. None of the wounded were removed that night, and early next day the ghouls began to appear. I saw a number of Confederates robbing the dead and wounded, and by and by a member of Hood’s Texas Rangers approached us. I had on a pair of new boots of fancy make, and as he came up ho ordered me to pull them off. I replied that I was wounded and could not do it. Ho remarked he would have them off in a jiffy, and he seized mysV+aei-oe19n•6l-le1G•k1C
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Elyria Democrat
Elyria, Ohio, US
Thu, Jan 26, 1888
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