Existing comment:
"Our men were falling all round. The man on my left (Bruce McKinney) was shot through the left breast. He called for help; I got him behind a large tree from the Yankees. He talked as calm as if there was nothing going on; he says, 'Tell Captain Cleghorn to tell Mother I died at my post, died doing my duty.' I says, 'you are not dead.' 'Yes,' he says, 'I am a dead man' ... and he was dead."
-- Private John W. Hamil, 9th Georgia Infantry |