Talk of heroes--here is a true one! "Eight o'clock.

We are relieved.
"Eleven o'clock.

Message from the Colonel.

'Owing to circumstances the 101st cannot be relieved.' "_Merci!_ "What a disappointment for my poor fellows! Lieutenant X---- is lost in admiration of them.

I daresay--but I have only thirty-nine of them left." Eighteen hours later.
"The order for relief has come.