He was wounded yesterday morning, and I have been by his side ever since.
Neither of us has eaten any thing for thirty hours, but, if you will take good care of him, I will not stop now for myself.

I want to get into the battle again at once." The man's request was complied with.

I regret my inability to give his name.
A drummer-boy of the Fifteenth Iowa Infantry was wounded five times during the first day's battle, but insisted upon going out on the second day.

He had hardly started before he fainted from loss of blood, and was left to recover and crawl back to the camp.
Colonel Sweeney, of the Fifty-second Illinois Infantry, who lost an arm in Mexico and was wounded in the leg at Wilson Creek, received a wound in his arm on the first day of the battle.

He kept his saddle, though he was unable to use his arm, and went to the hospital after the battle was over.