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and said in reply: Faith, and bedad,
doctor, it is meself that is going to
the same front where the boys are
fighting. 1 carried Jamey back there
to the hospital and strapped him to
dure while they took OFF his leg. 1t is
a sorry day for the poor lad These
Held hospitals are little more than
butcher shops-a dure for an operat-
ing table, Bad luck to the whole of
them After trudging along quietly
for a few minutes Pat said explosive
ly: If l were no better sawbones
than the spalpeens back yander 1
would never take scalpel in my hand
again
"a change in the bearing of the
man, change in the tone of voice,
led the doctor to suspect that Pat was
something more than a straggler who
had drifted back to the field hospital
simply to get a drop of the crather,
and he piled him with questions SO
skillfully that he soon learned that
Pat was a graduate of Dublin Surgical
college and had practiced surgery.
A few days later Pat, at the sugges-
ton of Surgeon McCauley, was de-
tailed to assist in the field hospital.
He proved to be, when sober, an ex-
few days made the quickest and neat
est amputation recorded from Perry
vile to Bentonville. Later he made
hip joint amputation. regarded at that
time as very difficult, and placed to
his credit one of the noted operations
of the war."-Chicago Inter Ocean
Early Days of the Great War.
''The volunteers said the captain,
went into the army in 1861 with
queer notions of military service In
the first year of the war 1 heard men
well informed on general subjects
contend that a commanding officer
could not compel his men to march
in the rain or to fight on Sunday or
to make a campaign in winter. All
these things they declared were in
the army regulations, and if any gen
eral dared to disregard them there
would be trouble.
Before our company had been six
months in the service it had made
several forced marches in the rain
had waded rivers on three different
occasions, had fought it's bloodiest en-
gagement on Sunday, and the boys
had revised their army regulations to
read, An officer may do with his
ways that he ticks the enemy
AT Stone River a captain of the
best disciplined company in the regi-
ment ordered his men, retreating in
line, to stop and pull out gun car
riage damned in between two trees.
The captain and two men stepped out
and the company went on. The cap
tain and his two helpers were prison
ers in five minutes, and word came to
the company that the captain had
sworn he would have them all pun
ished for disobedience of orders as
soon as he was released from prison.
I'm due time he was released and
returned to the regiment in a new
uniform. He came up with the col
umn just as the men had been or
dered to throw up intrenchments, and
when he reached his company the
men were as muddy as so many ditch
ers. They suspended work only
minute to give the captain a cheer. In
that minute the wag of the company
asked: Where is the captain, Cap?'
This forced the issue, and the cap
tain, laughing, said the joke was on
him. In fifteen minutes he was work
ing as hard as his men, but his new
uniform was a sight to behold Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
Nations BADGE of Honor