Then Lieutenant Woods voice rang out clear and strong.

Limber to the rear.

Get your guns out of this.

Then there was a scramble.

Numbers 1, 3, 4, and 6 guns fell back at once.

Not so with 2 and 5.

Squad 5 had about 3 canineers and Gunner's Cheryl left.

Dolan and Stiger and Crocker having gone with Flanagan to an ambulance.

Four of their horses, including Bailey's Grey Eagle, were badly wounded.

The 3 canineers were unable to run up the gun and hook it on.

AC Hall jumped off his horse and putting his shoulder to the wheel helped to run it

up and the others holding up and pulling on the trail.

Just at this time, Charlie Kimball from number 2 gun came hopping up on one leg, having

been badly wounded in the other and he was caught and tossed on the footboard of the

limber.

Hall remounted his horse and just as the gun was started, he was hit in the head by a

shot and knocked off.

I jumped and grabbed the near lead horse by the bit, fostered the near swing horse and

Colby the near wheeler and away we started at a run.

The Rebels less than a hundred yards from us, making a desperate effort to capture at

least the two guns that were delayed and getting away.

Poor Hall and Bailey were left behind of the tender mercies of the Rebels, as we suppose,

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