Incidenti di gli Stati Uniti Commissione cristiana . sshot per l. Sto per essere sparato per difendere il mio paese ; io amo il suo andam disposti a morire per lei. Lo dico ai miei genitori sono anche felice in theLord. Il mio futuro è luminoso. Spero di poter parlare a voi come mi passano fuori todie. John B. Marsh. Una delle guardie detto al sig. Shipman che quando i giovani Marshwas poste dalla sua bara e pronto a ricevere il fuoco del suo execu-tioners, egli è stato detto che egli poteva parlare di una parola se egli ha voluto. Steppingupon la sua bara e guardando rotondo su quel feroce folla di unione-cappellai, gridò- tre acclamazioni per la vecchia bandiera e l'Unione europea!

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Incidents of the United States Christian Commission . sshot for. I am to be shot for defending my country ; I love her andam willing to die for her. Tell my parents I am also happy in theLord. My future is bright. I hope to speak to you as I pass out todie. John B. Marsh. One of the guards said to Mr. Shipman that when young Marshwas placed by his coffin and ready to receive the fire of his execu-tioners, he was told he could speak a word if he desired to. Steppingupon his coffin and looking round on that fierce crowd of Union-haters, he cried out— Three cheers for the Old Flag and the Union! Of course the patriotic sentiment met no response from that audi- Of the Howard Mission, New York city. 124 CHRISTIAN COMMISSION INCIDENTS. ence. Then, with his hands pinioned behind and his eye lifted as ifthe flag were in view, he shouted forth his own three cheers, *^Hurrah ! hurrah ! hurrah / The clear, ringing voice had scarcely died away, when the sharpcrack of musketry added another name to the long roll of the mar-tyrs to the dear Old Flag.. get the ship by, boy The heroes were not in the army alone: As Farragut .swept up the Mississippi, past the Vicksburg batter-ies, Lieut. Curaniings had a leg shot away by a Rebel ball. Refusing to go below, he shouted out to his brave tars—, P „ Get the ship by the batteries, —get the ship by, boys, and they may have the other leg. CHAPTER V. THE EASTERN ARMIES. FROM THE BEGINNING OF 1863 UNTIL LEES SECOND INVASION.Jamtary ISGS—Jxdy 1863. At the beginning of 1863 the Commission had twostations in the Army of the Potomac; one at the villageof Acquia, the other at the railroad terminus at Fal-mouth, opposite Fredericksburg. Burnsides secondattempt to cross the Rappahannock, frustrated by rain, sleet, mud and cold, put thousands of veterans under theSurgeons care in the field hospital at Windmill Point, on the Potomac, a few miles below Acquia Creek. Astation of the Commission was continued here until thehospital was suddenly bro

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