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Title: A history of the Eighth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers, including its service as infantry, Second N. H. Cavalry, and Veteran Battalion in the Civil War of 1861-1865, covering a period of three years, ten months, and nineteen days
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Stanyan, John M
Subjects: United States. Army. New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1865)
Publisher: Concord, I. C. Evans, Printer
Contributing Library: University of New Hampshire Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of New Hampshire Library

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near me after we ceasedfiring. I lay perfectly motionless for hours, the shellsfrom our batteries continually flying overhead. I did not
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CHAS. E. CONANT, CO. F. New Hampshire Volunteers. 265 at the time know what hit me or how badly I was hurt. Itfelt as if a forty-pound solid shot had struck my heel andthe leg had been driven into my body. There was noshelter and the rebs. had it all their own way, and soonall the living, outside in front of their lines, had to goinside. That time, I think, was about noon, I can onlytell what happened in m)^ immediate vicinity. In vol. 2, 1866, State Reports, Lieutenant Marshall writes : No flag of truce was allowed by the rebels for threedays. On the 17th, however, the stench from the putrify-ing corpses had become so intolerable to the enemy, thatthey raised a white flag and proposed to pick up our deadand deliver them at a given point. This was, of course,accepted, and one hundred and thirteen dead and onewounded were brought in, most of them so discolored asto be unrecognized. The Confederate account speaks of one wounded sentback. To-day to us, it seems strange that that ones nam

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