Charles Fremont Wolcott’s Pocket Diary: Battery H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery

Abstract

Gettysburg Magazine, no. 56 soldiering was not “all his fancy painted it,” tried to console the suff erer by the remark, “that now he would be entitled to his discharge.” Th e wrath of Monty at the idea that he would leave the service on such a pretext, was too great for words. He used none, but simply let fl y with his uninjured right, with such eff ect that his wouldbe consoler promptly measured his length on the ground amid a great applause.4