The San Francisco call., 1898-08-14

: WUUWUe0. I eNTIFCTP1 J0TOUgN the battle alive. much less without a scratch. At least dozen men were killed or wounded nght around
 men to go forward and locate the enemy, and another man called Botts jumped up and forward to where we could see the Span iarlS the hill.
 It seemed certain death to get up. the bullets were flying so thick but We got back all right and reported. Bolts was afterward shot through the leg.
 have lost everything except the clothes
 JACK HAWTHORNE.
 Company A. list New York Volunteers.
 But no, Jack Hawthorne had not lost his most precious possession of all the heroic blood that courses in his veins. Heroic blood 1t was that prompt cd both him and Private Bolts at the same instant to jump up and rush for ward with such alacrity in the face of almost certain death.
 All the world knows the name of this young fellows grandfather. Nathaniel Hawthorne author of the Scarlet Let ter" and The Marble Faun," master pieces of English literature, but who has heard of Botts. the unromantic cog nomen of the youngsters equally brave companion? What fOrefathers have handed down to him the blood from which heroes are made?
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