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foot and drew tins boot in a rough mats-nor. Tho ollior leg vas tho wounded-one, and as ho grabbed niy foot 1 cried; out with pain. X was then braced up against a bank of earth in a sitting position, aud the wound had become vovy painful. Carter reproved theKlinger for his want of fueling, andwith an oath ho dropped my foot and picked up a ruusket with bayouot attached.“I believe ho meant to kill me, but as ho thrust at mo tho bayonet passed through my right hip and cuteied tho earth, pinning mo fast The merciless Hunger then picked up my foot, braced one of his feet against my body and pulled off tho boot Every thing turned dark to mo, although I did not lose consciousness. Ho was going away with the boots under his arm when Carter reached over and possessed hi nisei! of a revolver from a cavalryman’s holster, and taking careful aim across my legs ho sent a bullet into tho Ranger's back aud dropped him dead in his tracks. X expected we would both be murdered for this, but the fellow1 comrades came up aud agreed that it served him right. They raised me up, cleaned the bayonet of all dirt, and then pulled it out as carefully as possible.“Just below us was a bit of swamp, and Carter, myself and several nihets managed to crawl down to it. Theio was a bed of soft, wet muck into whkl» we burrowed cleat* up to our chins, and wo were theie another twenty-four horns before the Federate came to take us off the field. The mud-bath was doubtless the means of saving our lives, as it kept the flies away, stopped the loss of blood, aud acted as a dressing. When they came to wash me off in hospital the flesh about my wounds was as white as chicken meat, and the soreness had nearly all disappeared. Carter was taken to tho same hospital, but 1 never saw him afterwards. But for him I should certainly have been murdered by the ranger, and it was he who revenged me- Ho may yet bo living, and if so I would give move to receivo word frcun him than I would to bo appointed a member of the President’s Cabinet.”—Detroit Free Fra s.
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Elyria Democrat
Elyria, Ohio, US
Thu, Jan 26, 1888
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