HOW SOLDIERS WERE MADE.



regiment was about to start in pursuit of Bragg,
Low was recognized in his place with his com-
pany. His head was covered with white band-
ages, whereupon he was at once ordered to the
rear, but he begged to be allowed to go with us.
To relieve his mind from any misgiving he
might have of any unjust construction his men
might put upon his going back, I peremptorily
ordered him to the hospital in their presence,
saying that I would not take the risk of properly
taking care of him. But poor Low was hurt
worse than he thought, for his skull was cracked,
and it was many months before he was again fit
for duty. He was captain commanding the
regiment, at Bentonville, and was there killed.
His commission as colonel of the regiment was
on the way, but had not been received before he
was called to muster in the grand army of
heroic dead.  Sexton, Fouts, Osborne, Peck,
S outhern, Dewees and Hawkins had gone be-
fore; Jenkins was soon to follow.  He yet lin-
gered, suffering agonies from a mortal wound
received at Jonesboro, but the brave fellow had
to die and have his name also enrolled with the
Thirty-eighth's glorious detachment. At Jones-
boro Griffin broke down, Carter was again



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