Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-11

shot through his face-he was diving. This was
my first shot fired in battle.
of our whole company which, on entering
the engagement numbered about $50 strong, NJ
night only twenty or thirty eombatauts re-
manned. The old soldiers Of our regiment
treated us ever after this battle with signal re
gard, while before it they had looked uNou us as
beardleSs boys. We marched all night. II
ralned the whole Of the 18th hut we marched
great part of that night, also, Rain fell in
torrents, the roads were very bad. Early in the
morning OF the 18th we found part OF our rcGi-
ment from which we had been separated. Oar
men were exhausted, but Old Butcher allowed
us no rest. As we passed the marshal wrapped
up IN cloak and leaning against a mound, our
soldiers began to hurrah. "Be quiet, my lads,
SAID he; hold your tongues; time enough after
me victory Is gained" We entered the battle OF
Waterloo with Butcher in the afternoon; You
know the history of that memorable day.
The great body Of the prusSian and English
armies marched toward Paris; bat half our
army corps. to which I belonged, received orders
TO pursue Naudamere who had thrown himself
into NaSmur, We marched the whole OF the
18th; the heat was excessive, ANA our exhaust
ion and thirst 50 great that two men of our reg
ment became deranged in consequence. At 1
IN the afternoon we went 10 hivouac; We started
early again, and now my strength iorSook me,
| could not keep up with the troops and began
10 lag behind, suddenly, At about noon, heard
the first guns, the battle of NaSmur had begun.
When arrived where my regiment Stood or rs
| should rather say, the little band representing
it, ] dropped down; but fortunately one of my
comrades had some eggs, one of which gave me
great strength. Our colonel came up TO Us saw
ing "Ritiemen, you have twice fought like the
oldest s0ldierS,-I have no more 10 say. This
wood is to be cleared; be Steady-bugleman, the
signal!' and off we went with great hurrah
driving the French before us down a hill to-
ward NaSmur, which lay on our front. When
..,44N II, -. N..r
was airald,tha some enemies might be hid I'M
der the precipice to receive them. Holding my
self with my left hand by tree, looked over
the precipice and saw about seven Frenchmen,
They will hit me-" thought, and, turning
bound to call on our S)ldiers, suddenly eXper-
fenced sensation as if my whole body were
compressed in my head, and this, like a
rail-, were quivering in the air. | could feel
the existence of nothing else; it was a most
painful sensation. After some time | was able
to open my eyes, or to see again with them; |
found myself on the ground; over me stood a
soldier firing at the enemy. | strained every
nerve to ask, though in broken accents, whether,
and if so where, | was woundedl "You are
shot through the neck" l begged him to shoot
NE; the idea of dying mserably, half of hunger,
half of my wound, alone in the wood, over
powered me- He of course refused spoke
word Of comfort that perhaps | might yet be
saved, and soon after himself received Il shot
through both knees, in consequence OF which
he died in the hosuital while | am writing an
account of his sufferngs here in America. My
thirst was beyond description; it was a feverish
burning. | thought l should die, and prayed
for FORGIVENESS of my sins as ! forgave all;
recollect prayed for Napoleon, and prayed the
Dispenser of all blessings to shower his bounty
upon my beloved ones; and if it could be, to
grant me speedy end of my sutferings. re-
ceived a'second ball, which, entering my chest
gave me more local pain than the first;
thought God had granted me my fervent prayer
| perceived, as | supposed, that the ball had
pierted my lungs, and tried to breathe hard to
hasten my death. A week afterward, while
lay i'll with my two wounds in house at Liege,
one of my brothers was in the hospital at Brus-
sells, and another at AK la Chapelle,--we were
just distributed at the points of a triangle.-Dr.
Lieber'S Letters.