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Second-Lieutenant Barker died of his wounds a month later, but the other three have all recovered." The Lancashire Fusiliers' Annual goes on to say that "On July 2nd the Battalion moved up into the Potijze sector. We had a hot reception, the enemy sent over 1,500 shells all round Battalion Headquarters between midnight and 5 a.m."
At dinner I found that Second-Lieutenant Talbot Dickinson, M.C., had returned from leave. He ought to have had his investiture while on leave, but, as there was not one fixed at Buckingham Palace until a few days after the date on which he should return, he had to come back without it. "Yesterday evening I was supervising a working party under Sergeant Noden, repairing the parapet of a trench.
The company was commanded by Captain Robert Anderson; Henry B. Judd was the senior first-lieutenant, and I was the junior first-lieutenant, and George B. Ayres the second-lieutenant. Colonel William Gates commanded the post and regiment, with First-Lieutenant William Austine as his adjutant.
Though it was the summer time in the southern hemisphere, the weather was very variable; now, when the wind came from the antarctic pole, bitterly cold; or drawing round and blowing from the north, after it had passed over the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, it was soft and balmy. It was Harry Shafto's morning watch; he had just relieved the second-lieutenant. Willy was for'ard.
Augustine, so that I commanded the company on the march, having with me Second-Lieutenant George B. Ayres. Our first march was to Fort Russell, then Micanopy, Wacahoota, and Wacasassee, all which posts were garrisoned by the Second or Seventh Infantry. At Wacasassee we met General Worth and his staff, en route for Pilatka.
The two cutters were intrusted to the command of the second-lieutenant, with orders to pull into the broad passage between the end of the cape, or the 'Hook, and that long narrow island which stretches from the harbor of New-York for more than forty leagues to the eastward, sheltering the whole coast of Connecticut from the tempests of the ocean.
There were no possible means of obtaining news from the garrison, and information from outside could not be otherwise than unfavorable. What General Taylor's feelings were during this suspense I do not know; but for myself, a young second-lieutenant who had never heard a hostile gun before, I felt sorry that I had enlisted.
A revolt shook him; he swore: "By heavens! this cannot go on indefinitely; we must in the end invent something." Lieutenant Otto and Second-Lieutenant Fritz, two Teutons eminently endowed with heavy and serious German faces, replied together: "What shall we invent, Captain?" He mused for a few seconds and resumed: "What? Well, we must organize an entertainment, if the Commander will permit."
This is heavy indeed. Poor Stevenson, I thought he was only wounded." "Since dead, sir," replied the second-lieutenant; "we have lost a pleasant messmate." "And His Majesty a valuable officer," replied the captain. "I am afraid his mother will feel it in more ways than one he supported her, I think." "He did, sir: will you not give an acting order to one of the young gentlemen?"
There are always more of them before they are counted. A week or two before leaving Corpus Christi on this trip, I had been promoted from brevet second-lieutenant, 4th infantry, to full second-lieutenant, 7th infantry. We immediately made application to be transferred, so as to get back to our old regiments. On my return, I found that our application had been approved at Washington.
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