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With much difficulty he got him back to our lines. This was the night of June 2d, and he died on the 4th. I left the latter part of January to join the regiment, then camped at Bristoe Station, on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. With me were two recruits for Company E, Abe Eshelman and Mike Coleman.
"Quarter of an inch quarter of an inch too high scraped the lung Lord, if I can only get it out got to do it now can't wait here, Bristoe, that leather case on my saddle run, damn you we'll save him yet, girl there, drop his head in your lap yes, cry if you want to only hold still open the case, will you down here, where I can reach it now water all our canteens Hope, tear me off a strip of your under-skirt what am I going to do? extract the ball got to do it blood poison in this sun."
The little company now consisted of Keith, Fairbain, who, in spite of his rotundity of form had proven himself hard and fit, Neb, having charge of the single pack-horse, the scout Bristoe, and the two cowboys of the "Bar X," rough, wiry fellows, accustomed to exposure and peril. It was emphatically a fighting outfit, and to be trusted in emergency.
It was reported, I know not upon what authority, that when he and General Hill were riding over the field, and Hill essayed to explain the unfortunate affair, the commander-in-chief shook his head, and said in grave tones: "Say no more, general have these poor dead soldiers buried." From the hill above Bristoe, General Lee, accompanied by Stuart, looked out in the direction of Manassas.
It must have been Hawley then who had left the party and ridden east, and up to that time he had not found out his mistake. Yet if he brought out the fresh animals the chances were that Hope's identity would be revealed. Bristoe, who had turned aside to examine the straying horse, came trotting up.
Watson?" "Of course, young man. Go ahead." "Perhaps you feel badly over a disaster of your own. I saw the smoking fires at Bristoe Station. The rebels burned there several million dollars worth of stores belonging to us. Maybe a large part of them were your own goods."
In a letter of October 19, 1863, to his wife, my father says: "...I have returned to the Rappahannock. I did not pursue with the main army beyond Bristoe or Broad Run. Our advance went as far as Bull Run, where the enemy was entrenched, extending his right as far as 'Chantilly, in the yard of which he was building a redoubt.
Banks, still at Bristoe Station, was told to destroy all the supplies of which he was in charge, as well as the railway, and to march on Centreville; while 30 guns and more than 2000 wounded were left upon the field. Nor were Pope's anticipations as to the future to be fulfilled. The position at Centrevile was strong.
The soil, naturally rich and tender, consisting of a reddish loam, trodden by many feet, and cut by the wheels of heavy vehicles, became almost impassable. But it has this advantage, that it soon dries. So the soil, as well as the atmosphere and the people, is suddenly changeable. April 7. To-day our expedition continued its march to Catlett's Station, a few miles south of Bristoe.
There were traces of two trails leading to the spot, one being that of the same five horses they had been following so long, the other not so easily read, as it had been traversed in both directions, the different hoof marks obliterating each other. Bristoe, creeping about on hands and knees, studied the signs with the eyes of an Indian.
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