This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1892. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIII. IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW.--AT REST--1863. On meeting the wounded general, says Dr. McGuire: "I knelt down by him and said, 'I hope you are not badly hurt, general V He replied very calmly, but feebly, 'I am badly injured, doctor; I fear I am dying.' After a pause he continued, 'I am glad you have come. I think the wound in my shoulder is still bleeding.' His clothes were saturated with blood, and hemorrhage was still going on from the wound. Compression of the artery with the finger arrested it, until, lights being procured from the ambulance, the handkerchief, which had slipped a little, was readjusted. His calmness amid the dangers that surrounded him, and at the supposed presence of death, and his uniform politeness did not forsake him even under these most trying circumstances. His complete control, too, over his mind, enfeebled as it was by loss of blood and pain, was wonderful. His suffering at this time was intense; his hands were cold, his skin clammy, his face pale, and his lips compressed and bloodless; not a groan escaped him -- not a sign of suffering, except the slight corrugation of his brow, the fixed, rigid face, and the thin lips, so tightly compressed that the impression of the teeth could be seen through them. Except these, he controlled by his iron will all evidences of emotion, and, more difficult than this even, he controlled that disposition to restlessness, which many of us have observed upon the field of battle, attending great loss of blood. Some whiskey and morphia were administered to him, and, placing him in the ambulance, it was started for the Corps Field Infirmary, at the Wilderness Tavern. Colonel Crutchfield, his chief of artillery, was also in the ambulance. He had been wounded very seriously in the l...
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