Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-08-16
SOLDIERS IN BATTLE
How Men Feel and Act With
Death All About Them.
THE STORY OF A PRIVATE.

WIN wv 0~3tNWtub W WV ts8He
cemes Fear. but That Soon Passes
Away In the Eaesrnsss For KilIlns.
Varying Effects Of Wounds.
A narrative OF the battle OF solferl.
no ms told by veteran survivor 70
Robert Shackleton appears in Har-
pers. IL IL. word for word. chapter
of history as seen by man In the
ranks Incidents which Impressed him
are curious:
I'VE halted, and TyrolesY lying on
the ground cried out 4 am dying
Give me to drink. whereat my com.
panlon stopped to offer him q fiask,
and as he stopped the Tyrolese struck
sayagely at him With his bayonet but
my companion Jumped hack, aud Il
missed him. aud be said. You Tyro-
lese, you said you wanted a drink be-
fore you died. and now you shall die
without the drink aud he stuck his
bayonet through him as boy would
stick pin through a ny.
The lighting soon began again, and
II was very fierce. II was soon that
we came 10 know that we were to cap
ture little village and the hills about
the village. The village was named
San MARITIME, and there were walled
barns and gardens. and the Austriana
were very strong there.
-The bursting OF the shells was very
bad. Sometimes all OF US close By
would be thrown down and be GOV.
cred with mud and earth. but most %
ms would jump up again, not wounded,
but always there were some who
would not Jump up again, bocause they
were wounded or dead.
"At the beginning Of a battle vol.
dIer feels afraid. Az ths beginning Of
this battle 3 felt afraid. and know
that other men felt afraid, though Il
was not cur frst battle. and we knew
what Il was 10 be under Gre
$50 Il was that at the beginning
we commended ourselves; we felt IKE
death. bul soon that passed away, and
we thought no more % death. but only
Of che killing Of the Austrians.
IAN around me men we're killed
There were heads and arms blown OF,
and men Iiew into piecea like the
Emashing Of . jog But we dld NOT
care We thought nothing % IT,
do NOT know that we even knew We
anw such thlnEa. but some ~ them
come % me rs ! ait with yOu and ialk
of that long day We did not notice.
aud we ava not think that az any mo
ment We too might have our heads
blown on or be smashed Into little
pieces IKE the breaking 81 jos
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guns and killed the men who alIli
fought with az. We turned the guns
10 ore on che Austrinns ~ they aeW
away. but they had driven Bits o. steoi
lnto TIE toBchb0lea. snd - we could
not Ore thcan They were u = cour
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