A Yager, resting his rifle by the house of Isaac Oakley (Willis's afterwards) shot a private soldier, one of the six, who I think were of Sheldon's. He was brought to our house on horseback being severely wounded, having been shot in the breast, the ball passing quite through the body, and being held only by the skin He was brought into our house and placed in one of the front rooms. His blood flowed profusely through the bed and
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over the floor. He begged of my mother to take care of and conceal him as he had been taken prisoner and paroled, but had broken his parole, and if taken now he feared he should inevitably be hanged. My mother thereupon muffled his face so as to conceal his beard and put on his head one of her own nightcaps so as to pass him off as a woman if the enemy came - saying she would in that event say he was a sick female. None of the enemy however came, and next day he was taken away in a horse litter the ball having been extracted by the surgeon of the regiment on the same day the wound was received. His blood flowed so profusely that it passed thro' the straw bed and ran across the floor, sixteen feet or more. When he went away they took a coverlid to form a little and a pillow for his head. We heard no more of him until about six months after peace when a stranger carrying a bundle called