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The several barrels of whiskey brought down on the train the night before had been unheaded and the liquor poured out on the ground, but some of the boys lay down and drank out of the horse tracks, and at least one poor fellow got too much. He was behind the breastworks at the right-hand corner of our log-house fort, and in spite of the cautions of his comrades he insisted on exposing himself and soon a bullet struck him in the forehead and he fell off the breastwork into the railroad cut to rise no more. This was our only casualty, so far as I know, during that skirmish. - Sgt. H. C. Wilkinson, Co. H, 47th MO Vol. Inf., describing an incident during the defense of Leasburg, on Ewings retreat from Pilot Knob.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 02:51:12 +0000

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