Better
come along with us and be prisoners and give him a chance to get well.'
"Now, that was white, real white, but I thanked him and said that as soon
as General Buell heard that the best two soldiers in his whole army were
here resting, he'd come with his finest ambulance for us, driving his
horses himself. They said then they didn't suppose they were needed and
went on. But do you know, ma'am, every one of those Johnnies, as he
passed poor old unconscious Dick with his head in my lap, took off his
hat."
"It was a fine thing for them to do," said Colonel Winchester, and then
he whispered: "I'm glad you talked that way, Warner. It helps. You see,
she's feeling more cheerful already."
"Yes, and you see old Dick's opening his eyes. Isn't it strange that
the first thing he should see when he opens them here on the battlefield
should be his mother?"
"A strange and happy circumstance," said Colonel Winchester.
Dick opened his eyes.
"Mother!" he exclaimed.
Her arms were already around him.
CHAPTER XIV
SEEKING BRAGG
They took Dick to the house of his relatives, the Careys, in Danville,
and in a few days he learned the sequel of that sudden and terrible storm
of death at Perryville.
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