The progress-advertiser. (Lexington, Miss.) 1902-1903, 1902-11-14
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By DT. Phillips al Ihs last k,s Of
The HOLMES County
Veterans.
Continued from last week.

Continued from last week.
Kittrell stopped and said, Doctor we
must get away from here" Says l.
give me that knife | will finish this
job with two quick sweeps Of the
knife | unjointed the finger and in q
minute folded the flap down and
and bandaged the stump. Itook nc
stitches, as in usual in such cases,
laid his gun and cartridges box by
him, remarking, you can take your
revenge out on the yankees, if you are
still Of the same mind, when you blow
off that chloroform as they appear TO
be large numbers just down under
the hill, and ran to my horse in such
a hurry that forgot my bottle OF
chloroform, when | got on my horse |
looked around for my train, not wag-
on or ambulance could | see, nor
could | imagine where they had
gone ais the road we came on was
filed with more infantry, coming
rapidly to support their friends, who
were being hard pressed on both
sides of the road, up and down the
4 River, as / saw no other road, however
supposed they had gone back that
way until they met the infantry we
galloped back along side the road,ask-
ing il a train of wounded passed back,
none had seen it. These were all
Prices men, among our best fighters,
but | could not help but notice the
expression Of their faces, many of
them haggard, all stern and serious,
They had been repulsed in their two
days fight at Corinth, followed by a
victorious enemy and now their only
road of retreat, 50 far as they knew,
blocked by powerful force of the
enemy which they must whip before
the force in their rear caught up.
They knew that there was deadly
work ahead Of them, into which
they were going, worn, weary and
hungry, it was enough to make them
look serious. Here witnessed one
Of the saddest scenes that saw du-
ring the war, an old blind grandmoth-
er, her daughter and four little
Grandchildren, lived in a house around
which the heaviest Of the lighting
was going on. They had fled and
gotten into the road filled with our
troops, the daughter leading her
Blind mother and one of the little
children, the other three holding her
by the dress, and all crying. stop
ped and asked them what was the
matter and where they were going.
They told me where they lived, that
they did not know where to 60, that
soldiers and fighting was everywhere.
/ directed them to leave the road and
90 down in steep hollow and stay
there until the fighting was over,
then to go back home.
Going further back on the road we
met two batteries Of artillery. They
stated that they had met no train Of
wounded. Knowing that they could
notypass without one or the other
Giving the road, saw that it was
useless to look further in that direc-
ton, 50 We sode as rapidly as posi-
Bile back TO where we operated on the
mans finger. The man and his gun
we're gone, but the bottle Of chloro-
form was still there. The fighting
with both musketry and cannon was
now raging all along the line Of the
r;var for half d mile and wounded
men we're coming back. Riding
north along a drive road we present
" saw an ambulance about quarter
III d mile ahead Of us. Putting our g
in Bes in d lope we soon overlook il, g
"a 1t to be one Of my train and